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Atlantic; Getty What Travel Can, and Cannot, Teach Us
Is travel “a fool’s paradise,” per Ralph Waldo Emerson, or the only way to understand “La Dolce Vita”?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Tucker Carlson Deserves Blame—But Not for Buffalo
Plus: What Elon Musk and Barack Obama have in common
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty; … Readers Offer Their Moral Dilemmas
Would you press a button to eradicate cancer if 20 percent more marriages would end in divorce?
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty Is Gen Z Coddled, or Caring?
Plus: What’s bad for Russian looters might be bad for everyone.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic ‘I’m Very Conflicted’: Readers Share Complex Views on Abortion
Readers share their views on the personal, legal, and political sides of the issue.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty 20 Bold Takes on the Roe Draft Opinion
The conservative case for upholding Roe v. Wade, understanding Justice Alito’s legal reasoning, and more
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Charles Phelps Cushing / ClassicStock / Getty; The … What Do Twitter’s Users Actually Want?
Eighteen takes on what should—and should not—be forbidden on the platform.
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Charles Phelps Cushing / ClassicStock / Getty What Should Twitter Forbid? Be Specific.
Plus: Meet the New Right
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Richard Drury / Getty; The Atlantic You Have $1 Billion. How Do You Change the World?
Cushy prisons for the immoral, a new meritocracy, soil husbandry, and 15 more ideas from readers
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Ryan Lowry / The New York Times / … The Simple Anti-COVID Measures We’re Not Taking
Plus: Is “morning in America” over?
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Raymond Boyd / Getty; The Atlantic 12 Reader Views on Where America Is Going Wrong
Too much pessimism might be one of the ways.
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Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty China’s Lockdowns Matter to the West
Plus: Fox News in Spanish and violent octopus slums
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Martha Asencio-Rhine / Tampa Bay Times / AP; … 14 Reader Views on Sexuality and Gender in the Classroom
The case for telling kids the whole truth, how to ask students neutral questions, and more
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Martha Asencio-Rhine / Tampa Bay Times / AP That’s Not What Grooming Means
What should kids be taught about gender identity and sexual orientation?
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Everett; The Atlantic What Makes a Movie Life-Changing?
Readers on Pump Up the Volume, The Conversation, and more
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Evan Vucci / AP Biden Is a Wild Card in the Russia-Ukraine War, Too
Plus: Did Shakespeare predict the Slap?
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Getty; The Atlantic 20 Reader Views on Transgender People in Competitive Sports
Readers share their thoughts about gender separation in athletics.
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Dave Hill / EyeEm / Getty The Threat to Free Speech, Beyond ‘Cancel Culture’
Plus: Attacks against Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the scholar-snitch problem.
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Getty; The Atlantic What We Can Learn From Our Political Adversaries
Readers share insights and lessons from across the aisle.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Criticizing Ukraine Is Free Speech, Too
Plus: an argument against Trump 2024, and where the daylight-saving-time debate goes from here.
