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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty What Trump Is Hiding
Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.
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Alberto Pizzoli / Getty The Fall of the Azzurri
The losses, even more than the victories, hook you for life.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty The College-Admissions Process Is Completely Broken
But it doesn’t have to be.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic ‘I Know the Government Fell, but I Never Fell’
Women who served in the Afghan military are pleading for help, as Taliban fighters are hunting them down.
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Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times … How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?
The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?
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Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Strategy That Can Defeat Putin
The U.S.-led coalition of liberal-democratic states should pursue three objectives.
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Sean Gallup / Getty Putin Accidentally Revitalized the West’s Liberal Order
The Russian president thought he sensed an opportunity to take advantage of a disunited West. He has been proved wrong.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Canada’s Trucker Blockades Are a Warning
If a crackdown on protesters goes bad, the negative consequences may not be confined to the country.
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The Atlantic The GOP Has No Standards Now
Shredding the Constitution should disqualify anyone applying for a job protecting the Constitution.
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The Atlantic How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society
The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past.
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Patrick Ford / Redferns / Getty Meat Loaf Owned the Power Ballad
The late singer took the genre to unapologetically grandiose, glorious new heights.
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Getty; The Atlantic Is Old Music Killing New Music?
Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.
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Stephane Cardinale / Corbis / Getty; The Atlantic China Is Watching Ukraine With a Lot of Interest
Biden’s handling of Putin may tell Xi Jinping how resolutely the U.S. would defend Taiwan.
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Lisa Marie David / Reuters The Duo Fighting to Preserve Dynastic Rule in the Philippines
Two of the country’s most notorious political families are teaming up for the upcoming presidential election to consolidate and control power.
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The Atlantic How Ivy League Elites Turned Against Democracy
Some of the best-educated people in the country have overseen the destruction of their institutions.
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Courtesy of Hugh Martin / The Atlantic Our Highways Are an Ever-Expanding Museum of America’s Wars
I could hardly make out the words on the sign, but I knew what they said.
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Tom Bingham You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk
“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it.”
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Photograph by Jordan Gale for The Atlantic Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement
In rural Oregon, voters fed up with their state’s leftward turn have embraced a simple and outlandish idea: What if we were just Idaho?
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Jeff Kravitz / Jon Kopaloff / Getty; The … ‘I Always Think of Poetry as Home for Me’
The poet Amanda Gorman discusses her new collection, Call Us What We Carry, and how the last year has brought new urgency to her writing.
