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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why Clinton's Iraq Apology Still Isn't Enough
On Wednesday, the Democratic nominee stressed the importance of learning from her vote for the war. But she won't say what that means.
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Vadim Ghirda / AP The Moral Cost of the Kill Box
The repurposed military tactic is both unethical and ineffective in today’s conflicts.
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AP America’s Misplaced Faith in Bombing Campaigns
Many think of aerial bombardment as a cheap, effective alternative to spilling American blood. They're wrong.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Can Drone Pilots Be Heroes?
Traditional definitions of valor don’t always account for the practitioners of advanced war-fighting tactics.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Military: An Alternative to the Brutalities of the Modern Economy
The millions of service members who live on military bases around the world experience a kind of economic and social security that is foreign to most of America’s middle class.
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Andres Leighton / AP Ignoring Guantanamo Won’t Make It Go Away
Fixing the mistakes of Gitmo will require Americans to step up and shoulder the burdens of war.
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Gunnar Pippel / STILLFX / Shutterstock / Paul ... The Military Isn’t Preparing People for Private-Sector Success
And that’s a good thing: Thriving in business requires a shallow, materialist outlook that is out of place in the armed forces.
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Jim Cole / AP The Populism of Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders has seized the opportunity to represent everyday Americans, but is his strategy less effective than the frontrunner’s?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Giant, Fake City in the Middle of the Desert
The mock metropolis is meant to have everything but people who live there.
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Brian Yap/Flickr/The Atlantic How to Send a Message 1,000 Years to the Future
Our nuclear waste will far outlive us. So what technologies and narratives can we use to warn people hundreds of generations from now?
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Brian Snyder/Reuters America Doesn't Need to Lead the Free World
Should the U.S. bother responding to adversaries like Putin and ISIS? A military theorist and a war veteran discuss.
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Wikimedia/The Atlantic The Mystery of St. Louis's Veiled Prophet
Racial and class tensions are nothing new in the city, as the story of a parade founded by white elites in 1877 to protect their position shows.
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Reuters 120 American Charter Schools and One Secretive Turkish Cleric
The FBI is investigating a group of educators who are followers of a mysterious Islamic movement. But the problems seem less related to faith than to the oversight of charter schools.
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In 300 Years, Kim Stanley Robinson's Science Fiction May Not Be Fiction
The author talks about climate change, capitalism, and the other circa-2013 concerns that underpin his award-winning novels about "the solar system in the next few centuries."
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'The Future Might Be a Hoot': How Iain M. Banks Imagines Utopia
A talk with the sci-fi author who has been imagining advanced civilization for more than 25 years
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Space Cartoons to Space Psychedelia: How Sci-Fi Book Covers Evolved
Rifling through a vintage paperback store to see how artists' depictions of the future changed
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Bob Dylan and John Lennon's Weird, One-Sided Relationship
Bob Dylan's friendship with John Lennon was one-sided and uneasy. Why did he write a moving song about someone who never influenced him?
