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Frank Augstein / AP Why Jeremy Corbyn Isn’t Fighting Brexit
Labour’s leader is focused instead on purging the party of Tony Blair’s legacy.
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Francois Mori / AP Taking Soros Seriously
The Masthead revisits George Soros’s 1997 Atlantic cover story
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Adam Rountree / AP Solving Public Transit’s Perpetual Crisis
While national programs stall, private projects move ahead.
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Caetano Barreira / Reuters Meet The Atlantic’s New Crossword-Puzzle Guru
Caleb Madison is innovating within a decades-old form.
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Mark Lennihan / AP Alexa Doesn’t Love You
It’s getting easier to become emotionally attached to a voice assistant. That’s a mixed blessing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Wins a Round on NAFTA, and America Loses the Trade War
If Trump wants to take down China in the trade wars, the NAFTA talks won’t help.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Trump Believes Fox News—And South Africa Pays the Price
In a late-night tweet, the president shows disdain for a long tradition in American foreign policy.
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Matt York / AP The Midterms Mystery
Unknowns dominate the race for Congress.
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Darren Whiteside / Reuters How Autocrats Are Gaining the Upper Hand
A guide to the democratic recession
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Black Box at the Heart of American Foreign Policy
What did Trump tell Putin in Helsinki? The answer doesn’t matter all that much.
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Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP NATO in the Migrant Crisis
The Trump administration wants NATO front and center. So do many Europeans.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The SCOTUS Fight to Come
There won’t be another justice like Anthony Kennedy. So what will there be?
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Ng Han Guan / AP Beware of Bluffing, and Other Advice from the Trade War
The effects of the Trump administration’s trade policy are starting to ripple out.
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Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters What Do the Parents of Trans Kids Have to Say?
Parents of trans children respond to Jesse Singal.
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Misha Japaridze / AP What Does Iran Think? Ask the Soviets
The history of arms control talks has important lessons for the Iran deal. In archived transcripts, Soviet negotiators opened up about what they really thought at the time.
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Diplomacy Without Diplomats
Ronan Farrow’s new book shows what happens when the State Department goes empty.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Did Iraq Ever Become A Just War?
As its contours evolved, the morality of fighting it did too.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How to Misremember the Iraq War
After 15 years, a gap has opened up between what happened and how it’s perceived.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters Russia’s Known Unknowns
Vladimir Putin’s totally predictable re-election offers a few clues to what the man of mystery might do next.
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Jean-Pierre Amet / Reuters When It Comes to North Korea, Nothing Is As Easy As It Seems
Agreeing to talks is one thing. Getting North Korea to give up its nukes will be much, much harder.
