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How the Recession Changed Us
What a difference two years makes.
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Declare Super Bowl Monday a Holiday
We should dedicate the day to promoting a broader culture of physical activity, and use it for things like community flag-football tournaments and charitable 5Ks. A civic holiday with this kind of focus would not only alleviate hangovers, it would remind us that sports are supposed to be something participatory--something we engage in rather than watch.
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Coming Clean on Northern Ireland's 'Bloody Sunday'
Why the longest and most expensive investigation in British history was worth it
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Monsters in the Market
In today’s exchanges, strong programs prey on weak ones, humans are hard to find, and the SEC struggles to keep up.
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The Hopeful Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Fifty years of effort has yet to yield any evidence of alien life, yet now is a great time for serious enthusiasts
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At Preakness, Don't Bet on the Derby Winner
Everyone loves the jockey Calvin Borel, but wise gamblers should avoid putting their money down on him
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Drew Reynolds The Listener
For four hours every night, on holidays and weekends, George Noory is the voice in the darkness for millions of Americans. His show, Coast to Coast AM, has perfected a charged and conspiratorial worldview that now pervades American media. It’s quite possibly the oddest show ever to cross our airwaves. And it may change the radio business forever.
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The Fed's Cash Machine
The fiscal stimulus is puny compared with the actions the Fed has been taking behind closed doors.
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Then and Now
The nation Barack Obama inherits
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Football's Founding Fathers
Mark Bowden discusses the legendary Giants-Colts game of 1958 and reflects on how the sport and its players have changed in the past half century.
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Uranium on the Loose
Lawrence Scott Sheets discusses the lawlessness of the former Soviet republics and the nuclear threat no one talks about.
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Raging Bulls
Atlantic staff editor Timothy Lavin runs with the bulls in Pamplona and lives to tell the tale
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Power-sharing in Northern Ireland
Atlantic writings from 1916 through the 1980s offer perspective on just how momentous a development this is.
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As the World Warms
Gregg Easterbrook talks about his cover story, "Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?," and the unexpected by-products of climate change.
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The Sport of Kings
As the Kentucky Derby approaches, a look back at Atlantic writings paying tribute to the exhilarating heights and seedy depths of horse racing
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From Belfast With Love
Matthew Teague talks about "Double Blind," his extraordinary profile of a double agent who helped undermine the IRA
