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The Atlantic Go Memorize a Poem
In times of crisis, learning and reciting poetry can act as a balm.
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Anthia Cumming / Getty A Tale of Two Letters
Speaking the truth, laying down a marker, drawing a line are valuable in ways that you can never fully anticipate.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Profoundly Unserious Way of Dealing With the Past
As statues topple across the country, Americans need to distinguish between the problematic or objectionable and the irredeemably wrong.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters America’s Generals Must Stand Up to Trump
Our military leaders are willing to take a bullet for this country. But are they prepared to take a pink slip?
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Noam Galai / Getty We’re Discovering Our Character
The pandemic is reshaping how we understand ourselves and our world.
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Jose A. Bernat Bacete / Getty Our Plague Year
We must heed the logic of rationality and science—but also the logic captured by artists, poets, and storytellers.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP In the Long Run, Romney Wins
The senator from Utah’s speech was the stuff of American myth.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Trump Is Playing Chess One Turn at a Time
An impulsive president tries to look tough without being prepared to follow through.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters He’s No King David
Some of the president’s supporters have taken to comparing him to the biblical monarch.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty The Line Must Hold
Every society must make clear what it expects of its armed servants.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Trump’s Character Betrays Him
In foreign policy, reputation means everything.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters Go Read the Declaration of Independence
The universality of its ideals is precisely what makes the United States exceptional.
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Eugene Hoshiko / AP A Stain on the Honor of the Navy
In acceding to a White House request to cover the name of the USS John S. McCain, officers and officials revealed a rot within the service.
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Rand Corporation / The Atlantic The Brain of the Pentagon
Andrew Marshall leaves behind an American tradition of strategic thinking that will live well beyond him.
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AP Lessons of the Real Resistance
Choices might appear when people least expect them.
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FJO via Facebook / United States Holocaust Memorial ... Socially Acceptable Anti-Semitism
It is the religion of people too lazy to accept the complexity of reality.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Honor and Dishonor
Cohen is sleazy, Gaetz is nasty, Gallagher is principled—and the remaining members of the GOP fall somewhere in between.
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Alex Wong / Getty What It Means When Trump Doesn’t Show Up
Most presidents have visited and spoken at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day. Not Trump.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters You Can't Serve Both Trump and America
The departure of Jim Mattis is proof that you cannot have it all.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Presidents Need to Visit the Troops
It’s how commanders in chief show soldiers they’re not forgotten.
