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Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / Getty Imagining the Presence of Justice
A new project from The Atlantic focuses on efforts across the United States to move beyond the age of mass incarceration.
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What Do Southerners Hear in S-Town?
S-Town plays on some familiar themes of storytelling about the South. As Aja Romano has noted at Vox, the show…
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The Problem of Bingeing on S-Town
Given the market dynamics of media in 2017, I expect that this very moment, somewhere in America, the invisible hand…
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How Is Your Life Situated in History?
It’s difficult to piece together, in the moment, which of the events we live through will be remembered over time…
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Hundred-Year-Old Fix for Razor Bumps
There are a slew of products aimed at black men with this problem, but I found relief in early-20th-century razor technology. Now, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has built a company around the old-fashioned solution.
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Memo to the White House on the Contributions of Frederick Douglass
At an event marking the start of Black History Month, President Trump gave a very Trumpian shoutout to Frederick Douglass…
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David Gray / Reuters The Freedoms of George Michael
He proved he could still move records even after he discarded his teen idol image, and after the world knew he was gay.
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Ye Aung Thu / Getty A Podcast Listener's Guide to the 2016 Election
The best audio sources to get through the next few days
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Must Political Stagecraft Be Evil?
I caught up with the first couple episodes of the new show Designated Survivor this past weekend. In the show…
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Stephen Brashear / AP The Mass Shooting at a Washington Shopping Mall
Five people were killed in the attack; police later arrested a suspect after a day-long manhunt.
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Matt Thompson Date Night With the Zombies
Why battling the undead with my partner via a two-player Playstation game makes for surprisingly fulfilling quality time together
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Felipe Dana / AP The Cable Empire Strikes Back
The 2016 Olympics will be a test of how well Comcast and NBC can deliver live programming in the digital, on-demand era.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters To Be Outed in the Worst Possible Way
A first-generation American who grew up in Orlando imagines a horrific phone call.
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Track of the Day: 'Sueña'
It was right around this time in June twenty years ago when, in preparation for the theatrical release of Disney’s The…
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Marvel Studios Picking Sides in Captain America: Civil War
Four Atlantic writers discuss the newest installment in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe.
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Help Make Our Home Page Better
Are you a regular visitor to the home page of The Atlantic? We’d like to pull you into our user…
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Clone Zone: Democratizing April Foolery
If this tool didn’t exist, Slavoj Žižek would have had to invent it. Clone Zone was built by…
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In Praise of Political Reporters
Last night, President Obama gave the keynote lecture at an annual dinner to honor excellence in political reporting…
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Answers, Questioned
“Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers,” said the great Voltaire, according to Forbes.com, and…
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Welcome to the Next America
That the United States is losing its ethnic majority is now a familiar fact. The Census Bureau still dutifully updates…
