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Painting by Reynier Llanes. "The Poet," 2021 (oil … The People Cheering for Humanity’s End
A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise.
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Bryan Schutmaat for The Atlantic How Taylor Sheridan Created America’s Most Popular TV Show
Inside Paramount’s Yellowstone juggernaut
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Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Bloomberg / Getty; … Taiwan Prepares to Be Invaded
If China wants to do something drastic, President Tsai Ing-wen told me, “Xi has to weigh the costs. He has to think twice.”
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Philip Montgomery for The Atlantic Why Democrats Are Losing Hispanic Voters
The left has alienated America’s fastest-growing group of voters just when they were supposed to give the party a foolproof majority.
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The Murders in Memphis Aren’t Stopping
Despite extraordinary funding, the city’s police seem unable to control crime.
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David Corio The Too-Muchness of Bono
In Dublin with the irrepressible U2 front man
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Özge Sebzeci Turkey’s Honey Apocalypse Is a Warning to the World
Wildfires have devastated the country’s precious pine honey. Heat and drought could soon bring the same fate to other beekeepers.
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Getty; The Atlantic* The Impeachment of Joe Biden
And possibly Kamala Harris, and Merrick Garland, and Alejandro Mayorkas, and Antony Blinken
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Illustration by Carey Wang Where My Characters Come From
I don’t choose them; they choose me.
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David Delruelle The $30 Million Lottery Scam
How a Michigan real-estate broker became convinced he had cracked the lottery—and how he tricked his investors into financing his scheme
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Mark Seliger / August The Improbable Rise and Savage Fall of Siegfried & Roy
At the peak of their fame, they were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini.
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Lisa Edi / Connected Archives There Are No ‘Five Stages’ of Grief
Losing my son left me in a state of infinite sadness. The internet of grief didn’t help.
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Painting by Fulton Leroy Washington (MR WASH). Source: … This Is Not Justice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
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Jonno Rattman for The Atlantic The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump
Merrick Garland hasn’t tipped his hand, but it’s clear to me that he will bring charges against the former president.
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Nava Jamshidi / Getty What Afghans Want the Rest of the World to Know
The country is, once again, the worst place in the world to be a woman.
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María Jesús Contreras No One Wants a Pizzaburger
What Russian trolls can teach us about American voters
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Illustration by Guillem Casasús* The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Alabama Department of … Dead Man Living
What happened when Alabama tried and failed to kill Alan Eugene Miller
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Kirsten Stolle America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming
Our food system could have been so different.
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Federico Yankelevich Three Conversations With Donald Trump
The former president tried to sell his preferred version of himself, but said much more than he intended.
