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Shira Inbar We’ve Lost the Plot
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
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Matt Huynh It’s High Noon in America
In our popular culture and in our politics, we’re returning to the Old West.
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Derek Brahney Why the Age of American Progress Ended
Invention alone can’t change the world; what matters is what happens next.
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Illustration by Eric Yahnker. Source: House Creative Services. Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?
On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universe
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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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Caroline Tompkins for The Atlantic How Much Would You Pay to Save Your Cat’s Life?
For $15,000, you can get your pet a new kidney.
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Marc Wilson for The Atlantic Monuments to the Unthinkable
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
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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.
