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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Why I Dread Saying My Own Name
Nearly every decision in my life has been shaped by my stutter.
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A Disability Film Unlike Any Other
I Didn’t See You There depicts, with a hypnotic realism, life from the perspective of a disabled person.
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Dustin Franz / Bloomberg / Getty How Abortion Defined the 2022 Midterms
Where Dr. Oz stumbled, John Fetterman only had to say Roe v. Wade. And so it went across the nation.
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Mark Makela / Getty; Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto … The Fetterman-Oz Debate Was a Rorschach Test
The Democratic nominee for Senate has no choice but to bet on Pennsylvania voters identifying with his health struggles instead of viewing them as disqualifying.
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Matt Rourke / AP Don’t Patronize Fetterman
The Pennsylvania Democrat deserves to face the same questions—and to be given the same opportunities—as any other candidate.
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Photograph by Chase Castor for The Atlantic Does the Jason Kander Story Have a Third Act?
The once-future star of the Democratic Party is resurfacing with a memoir about mental illness. The question is whether it’s a prequel to his return to politics.
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Kholood Eid for The Atlantic How New York’s COVID War Spun Out of Control
How did it come to this?
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Spencer Platt / Getty Today Your Phone Became a Police Radio
Roughly four hours after an unusual push-alert dragnet, Frank James was captured. Did policing just change?
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Apple TV+ The Tension at the Heart of CODA
Even after two viewings, I’m still trying to answer a fundamental question: Who is this movie for?
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C-SPAN The Struggle to Overcome Mass-Shooting Cynicism
“If I end my public-service career and haven’t passed a significant federal firearms-reform bill, I’ll consider my time in public service a failure,” Senator Chris Murphy says.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Jamie Raskin Lost His Son. Then He Fled a Mob.
The day before the Capitol riot, a congressman buried his 25-year-old son, who had left a note for his family on New Year’s Eve.
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Courtesy of Kelly Fitzsimmons Death Stalks Joe Biden Still
In March, most Americans still hadn’t grasped the reality, or the lethality, of COVID-19. But Biden had already lost a friend of 30 years.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters / The Atlantic The Banality of Trump’s Hatred
The president will always denigrate anyone remotely different from himself.
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Nina Berman / NOOR / Redux The Fox News Powder Keg
On November 3, the network’s framing of the election narrative may help alleviate nationwide chaos—or sow it.
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Biden Campaign / Facebook Stuttering Through It
How a 13-year-old boy delivered the best speech of the Democratic National Convention
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Edmon de Haro Even Dead Bodies Pose Risks
Undertakers are scrambling to adapt to the complexities of COVID-19.
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Seth Wenig / AP Donald Down the Shore
The president refuses to believe that even New Jersey, a solidly blue Northeast state, is beyond his electoral grasp in 2020.
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Mark Peckmezian What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say
His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.
