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Calla Kessler / The New York Times / ... Biden Needs Unions to Force His Hand
To enact an FDR-scale agenda, the president needs the energy of his party’s pro-labor wing.
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Mark Lennihan / AP America’s Andrew Cuomo Problem
Why was the New York governor’s reckoning so long in coming?
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic Trump Is Gone, but Democracy Is in Trouble
A new report reveals that democratic governments are in retreat around the globe.
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Getty / The Atlantic Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off
A new study of the city’s program that sent cash to struggling individuals finds dramatic changes.
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Octavio Jones / Reuters Trump Is Threatening Republican Prospects in 2022
The former president’s appearance at CPAC highlighted a mounting problem for his party.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic America Didn’t Need Sports After All
The public’s emotional connection to big-money athletics has been grossly overestimated.
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Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty The Surprising Key to Combatting Vaccine Refusal
It’s not just one problem—and we’re going to need a portfolio of approaches to solve it.
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Wang Ying / Xinhua / Getty The Total Absurdity of Outdoor Dining Structures
Are you even still “outside” if you’re in a completely enclosed space?
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Adam Maida/ Tom Williams / Brendan Smialowski/ Getty ... The Man Who Refused to Bow
Adam Kinzinger says he’ll fight to take his party back from Donald Trump.
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Bridget Bennett / The New York Times / ... Overcaution Carries Its Own Danger to Children
Incessant pessimism about the coronavirus is hard to kick, but the vaccines are banishing any doubt about reopening schools.
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BULENT KILIC / AFP / Getty Murderers Should Be Called Murderers
Frequently and to their faces
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Alex Wong / Chet Strange/ Sarah Silbiger / ... 5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating
We can learn from our failures.
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JPL / Cornell / NASA Mars Is a Hellhole
Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.
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When a Company Invests in an ‘Underdog City’
The country is full of “underdog cities”—communities and regions that are aware of losing out and having been overlooked. Some…
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Getty / The Atlantic The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages
The GOP has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s.
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Adam Maida / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Ban All Big Mergers. Period.
A simple law would stop the U.S. government from rubber-stamping corporate consolidation.
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MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Trump Thinks He’s Found a New Defense
In his response to an adverse decision by the Supreme Court, the former president previewed an argument he’s likely to keep using.
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Learning From the New Deal—For the Next Recovery
A few days ago, I was talking with the mayor of a medium-sized “red state” city about how his community…
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Al Drago / Getty What’s the Justice Department Actually For?
A Senate hearing for President Biden’s attorney-general nominee is surfacing some big questions.
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Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times / ... Texas Pays the Price of the Culture War
Instead of focusing on governance, Republican politicians in the Lone Star State spent their time inflaming grievances.
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