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Cliff Hawkins / Getty The PGA Tour’s Stunning Hypocrisy
The preeminent golf league suddenly decided that Saudi Arabia’s many sins are not a problem.
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Gary Hershorn / Getty Photos: Smoke From Canada’s Wildfires Drifts South
Images of the fires in Canada and the surreal skies caused by the drifting smoke
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Photograph by Mark Peters for The Atlantic Chris Licht’s Fundamental Mistake
The ousted CNN executive failed to grasp the altered landscape of American politics.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty A Big Problem With College Admissions Could Be About to Get Worse
If affirmative action ends, how much more perverse could the process become?
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Illustration by The Atlantic; Source: Barton Gellman / … The Snowden Revelations Reconsidered
The leak in 2013 of NSA documents detailing mass surveillance of electronic communications seemed to have seismic significance. Today, the legacy looks less clear.
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Photo-illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Sources: … Mike Pence’s Presidential Campaign Makes No Sense
The former vice president is running to be the nominee of a Republican Party that no longer exists—one he helped destroy.
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Andrea Mantovani / The New York Times / … French People Are Fighting Over Giant Pools of Water
The underground reserves that fill mega-basins are not an infinite resource.
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Amir Hamja / Bloomberg / Getty The Next Crisis Will Start With Empty Office Buildings
Commercial real estate is losing value fast.
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Apple All Screens or No Screens?
Two possible post-smartphone futures
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Lynn Goldsmith / Corbis / VCG / Getty The World’s Best Songwriters
You might be surprised.
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Todd Heisler / NYT / Redux The Missing Piece of the Foraging Renaissance
My attempt to harvest hyperlocal produce led me to something perhaps even better.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … The Age of Goggles Has Arrived
But why?
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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The AI Mona Lisa Explains Everything
Depending on how you look at it, generative AI is either astonishingly powerful or totally pointless.
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Jonas Roosens / ANP/ Redux Get Phones Out of Schools Now
They impede learning, stunt relationships, and lessen belonging. They should be banned.
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JOSE LUIS ROCA / AFP / Getty Sterilizing Cats, No Surgery Required
A single shot might someday replace spaying as a tool for cat-population control.
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John Provencher ‘Hell Welcomes All’
Can hard-core gamers learn to play well with others?
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Photo-illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … Why Is Everyone Watching TV With the Subtitles On?
It’s not just you.
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Tony Luong for The Atlantic Moneyball Broke Baseball
But now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it.
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A24 A Love That Can Be at Once Platonic and Romantic
In Past Lives, distance and quiet are key to understanding a soaring intimacy.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic The Murder Rate Is Suddenly Falling
The first five months of 2023 have produced an encouraging overall trend for the first time in years.
