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Chris Wattie / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh’s Unusual Role in Defending Himself
Faced with sexual-assault allegations, he has been more aggressive in fighting for his Supreme Court nomination than most of his predecessors.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: An Eerie Symmetry
Accusations against Brett Kavanaugh are building. Plus, Rod Rosenstein’s fate and the future of Mueller’s Russia investigation, our new home for books coverage, and more
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Alex Wong / Getty Letters: ‘Forgive and Forget, Why Don’t You?’
Readers share their stories of sexual misconduct, and discuss what redemption might look like.
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Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via AP The Two Reasons Rod Rosenstein's Fate Is So Uncertain
The president doesn't like to fire people, but he does have a penchant for drama.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Acts of Rod
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Trump on Thursday following reports that he once suggested secretly recording the president and discussed invoking the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Will the Kavanaugh Hearings Propel Women to Congress?
“When women’s political fortunes are dependent on the political environment … ”
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Yuri Kadobnov / Pool / Reuters An Unlikely Alliance in Syria Comes Under Strain
A week after the Syrian military mistakenly shot down a Russian plane, Moscow said Israel was ultimately to blame.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters #WhyIDidntReport and the Weaponization of Haste
Immovable deadlines. Defenses that pivot around the question of “last minute” allegations. Allies of Brett Kavanaugh have been attempting to make a scapegoat of time itself.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The White House Is Scrambling to Calm Its Supporters Over the New Kavanaugh Allegations
Republicans in Washington are committed to getting Trump’s Supreme Court nominee confirmed, fearing their voters will stay home in November if they can’t seal the deal.
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Randall Hill / Reuters A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
The fall of a prominent behavioral scientist tells of a system where research is judged not on merit, but on the attention it gets.
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‘Old Age Is a Ceremony of Losses’
In his final days, the late American poet Donald Hall muses on the process of growing old.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters The Decision Not to Call in the FBI Is Looking Worse and Worse
As new allegations have surfaced, the White House has continued to refuse an independent investigation.
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Naples National Archeological Museum / Wikimedia Commons The Iliad Meets #MeToo in The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker’s retelling of the Homeric epic imagines the Trojan War from the perspective of a female slave fought over by two Greek heroes.
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Mara Vivat / Getty How To Write About Royalty
In 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, the author Craig Brown captures Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister perfectly.
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Tillie Walden / First Second Books An Intergalactic Tale Populated by Women
With the graphic novel On a Sunbeam, Tillie Walden has created a science-fiction universe of queer love, crumbling ruins, and magical forests. It might piss off the genre’s purists.
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its design / James Weston / Shutterstock / ... How The Great Gatsby Explains Trump
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel is a surprisingly apt primer on the president of the United States.
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Alexandra Beier / Getty Oktoberfest 2018: Photos From the Opening Weekend
The 185th Oktoberfest beer festival opened in Munich this weekend, and organizers are expecting more than 6 million visitors over the next two weeks.
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Andrew Harrer / Getty Anonymity Is Having a Moment
But when is it justified?
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Tasnim News Agency / Reuters The Flawed Logic of Blaming Iran for a Terrorist Attack Inside Iran
Gunmen killed 25 people, including civilians, on Saturday.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Rosenstein’s Departure Is a National Emergency
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is now in mortal peril.
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Leah Millis / Reuters / Katie Martin / ... What Rosenstein’s Exit Would Mean for Mueller's Russia Investigation
His departure could have consequences for the special counsel’s probe.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Republican Rush to Confirm Kavanaugh Backfired
Three new allegations against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee show the dangers of a hasty process.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Needs to Break Its Stagnant Streak
Alec Baldwin is returning to play President Trump for the show’s 44th season, with only one new cast member coming aboard the stalling sketch revue.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Trump Signals an Openness to Talks With Iran
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley appeared on Sunday morning’s news shows and took a hard line on Iran, but said the president would react favorably if Iran expressed interest in meeting.
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Karl Tapales / Getty No One Knows Exactly What Would Happen If Mosquitoes Were to Disappear
A four-year experiment sets out to study the ecological consequences of a bold scheme to end malaria.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I Love My Best Friend Like a Brother. My Wife Hates Him.
She refuses to hang out with him, and it’s destroying our friendship.
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Goran Tomasevic / Reuters The Myth of Authoritarian Competence
What trouble in Turkey reveals about the perils of strongman rule
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Christine Blasey Ford and the Search for a Standard of Proof
The Sunday shows were filled with commentary on the 51-year-old research psychologist’s expected testimony against the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but no one could quite define what a fair hearing should look like.
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Luisa Gonzalez / Reuters Latin America Gets Its Own Migrant Crisis
“Venezuela is no longer a pressure cooker. It’s a time bomb waiting to explode.”
