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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Where’s the Cheap Beef?
The rising prices at the supermarket checkout are a problem with no simple explanation. But Democratic hopes may depend on finding the right answer.
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Nicolas Messyaz / SIPA / AP France Is Mad
But not that mad.
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Getty / The Atlantic What the Never Trumpers Want Now
The former cultural core of the GOP is exiting the party. The Democrats should keep those voters in their corner. Here’s how to do it.
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Getty ; The Atlantic Texas Republicans Got What They Wanted. They Might Regret It.
Until now, Republicans have had a lucrative, no-risk way to rail against abortion. But accountability is coming.
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Gabriela Pesqueira How to Persuade Americans to Give Up Their Guns
The way to reduce gun violence is by convincing ordinary, “responsible” handgun owners that their weapons make them, their families, and those around them less safe.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Two Blows America Is Dealing to the Taliban
The exit from Afghanistan may seem like a failure. But it can also be seen as a display of power.
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Sebastiano Tomada / Sipa USA / AP The One Thing That Could’ve Changed the War in Afghanistan
Had Osama bin Laden been killed or captured in December 2001, justice would have been served in the way Americans like: fast, hard, and cheap.
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Eva Marie Uzcategui / Getty Don’t Let Anyone Normalize January 6
If you can shrug it off as just another incident of Trump talking too much, then you have already signed up for the next incident—and the one after that.
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Getty; The Atlantic Time for Covidnomics
Government has done what it can. Now we need to use the power of free markets to fight the pandemic.
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Getty; The Atlantic Vaccinated America Has Had Enough
In the United States, this pandemic could be almost over by now. The reasons it’s still going are pretty clear.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming
The relentless messaging by Trump and his supporters has inflicted a measurable wound on American democracy.
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Leigh Vogel / Getty Haiti and the Trump Illusion
The U.S. cannot wall itself off from the troubles facing its neighbors.
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Alamy / Los Angeles Examiner / Corbis / … The Other July 4
On July 4, 1776, the United States committed itself to a set of principles. It did not always live up to those words. But the words exerted their own power.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty Trump Is Preparing for the Worst
Watch for early indications that the legal process may end badly for the former president.
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Mark Boster / Peter Zay / Getty / … The Left’s War on Gifted Kids
Local progressive activists have found a cause even more unpopular than "Defund the police," and are pushing it with even greater vigor.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Remember Who Tucker Carlson Is
When a flagrantly unreliable narrator narrated his own story, people across the media spectrum responded as if he could be trusted. Why?
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Chris Jobs / Alamy; Evgenia Vasileva / Getty; … The Fight Over Canada’s Founding Prime Minister
Attacks on symbols of nationhood are not merely symbolic actions. They strike at the nationhood the symbol represents.
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Megan Varner / Getty It’s Not Complacency That’s Paralyzing Democrats
An overambitious faction of the activist left is standing in the way of voting-rights reform.
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Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty Trump’s Supporters Are Getting the Lab-Leak Story Backwards
If their thesis is right, it points to a course opposite what they propose.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Science Photo … The Pro-Trump Culture War on American Scientists
Some are trying to turn the lab-leak theory into a potent political weapon.
