Leah Varjacques
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What Scientists Have Learned From Eclipses
Under the moon’s shadow, humans have created both grand myths and scientific breakthroughs.
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What Does 'Late Capitalism' Really Mean?
The intellectual meme for a garbage economy
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What Drives Sally Yates
The former Acting attorney general reflects on her career and the decision that ended it.
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Is Trumpism the New Conservatism?
To understand the changes taking place in the Republican Party now, it helps to go back to the last time the party went through a major transformation.
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How Bad Is the Senate Health-Care Bill?
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel says bipartisan ACA reform is the way forward.
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Leah Varjacques / The Atlantic The Compounded Pain of Contamination and Dislocation
A month after residents of an East Chicago public housing complex learned they’d been living on dangerously polluted land for decades, they were told they’d have to leave their community.
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Is East Chicago the Next Flint?
After decades of inaction, the EPA addresses a lead-contamination disaster.
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Bob Woodward Tells the Media to Calm Down
“It serves no one, the media or Trump, to have an almost thermonuclear war with each other.”
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Will the 'Trump Effect' Sweep Europe?
The new American president emboldened far-right populists who are spooking Europe’s political establishment.
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How Foreign Powers Could Try to Buy Trump
Trump’s vast business empire will affect his decision-making as president.
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How Pink 'Pussyhats' Took Over the Women's March
A short film about one woman's DIY idea that became a global phenomenon
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A Reflection on Trump's Uncharted Presidency
In a short animation, James Fallows considers what’s in store for this new era of American politics.
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Facebook Targets Its Next Billion Users
The company's chief product officer on bringing its services to the developing world
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The High-Tech Future of Farming
An MIT researcher has created a computer that will bring agriculture to urban spaces on a mass scale.
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Women Didn't Let Hillary Clinton Down
A rebuttal of a dominant media narrative
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The Search for a Second Earth
Powerful new telescopes will help astronomers determine whether we are alone in the universe.
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The Art of Interviewing Henry Kissinger
Jeffrey Goldberg on his conversations with the controversial American statesman
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Hillary, Donald, and Womanhood
We traveled to two rallies for the candidates to observe polar opposite views on feminism and a woman’s role in society.
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Tinder Won't Change Love
Online dating is no match for the algorithm that already exists in the human brain.
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How to Raise Creative Children
Three rules that might make your child a future Nobel Prize winner
