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Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch via AP The Congresswoman Pepper-Sprayed by Police
In that moment, Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty said, she was just another black American attacked while protesting injustice.
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Mark Peterson / Redux The America I Love Needs to Do Better
Patriotism isn’t just the blind love of our flag. It is the work we do to improve our country for every American.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Missouri: Images of the Show Me State
A few glimpses of Missouri’s landscape, and some of the animals and people calling it home
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John R. Fulton Jr. / AP America Used to Have Leaders
Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 speech following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination offers a stark lesson in what has changed—and what remains the same—more than 50 years later.
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ERIC BARADAT / AFP via Getty Trump Is Terrified of Protest
Violent demonstrations across the United States bring out a particular weakness in the 45th president.
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Warren K. Leffler / Library of Congress Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?
Comparing 2020 to 1968 offers some disquieting lessons for the present.
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NASA A Historic Docking, 250 Miles Above Earth
Two NASA astronauts just arrived at the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule.
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Erik Winkowski ‘Don’t Ever Tell Law Enforcement to Shoot to Kill Your Own People’
A dispatch from the brink of catastrophe
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Jerry Holt / Star Tribune / Getty How Do You Kneel on a Neck for Nine Minutes?
I don’t see how anyone could remain in that position unless he was, at best, totally indifferent to the person’s survival.
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The Atlantic The New Relationships That Fizzled Out in Quarantine
The pandemic made every non-cohabiting couple a long-distance one—and effectively stopped a whole legion of blossoming romances in their tracks.
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SARAH DEL BEN / WID TOUCH / FONDATION ... The Rush to Sock Away Glacier Ice Before It All Melts
A snow-covered vault in Antarctica could help preserve chunks of disappearing glaciers.
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Variation on the Word Sleep
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ALEX EDELMAN / AFP via Getty The Pastors Already Planning to Rebel Against Future Shutdowns
A growing number of pastors believe the government overstepped in keeping churches closed this spring.
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Bettmann / Getty / Atlantic What Norma McCorvey Believed Matters
The original plaintiff behind Roe v. Wade is more than just a symbol in the abortion rights debate.
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Pat Greenhouse / The Boston Globe via Getty ... Average Workers Can’t Bear Any More Risk
The GOP push to give businesses immunity from coronavirus liability is part of a long, ugly trend.
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Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty When Police View Citizens as Enemies
The thin blue line looks like it’s ready to invade a foreign nation.
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NASA SpaceX Pulled It Off
Elon Musk’s aerospace company just launched two NASA astronauts into space for the first time.
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Listen: Is America Going to Make It?
James Fallows gives us some historical perspective.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic An Urgent Time for a Year Off Campus
College students have a chance to serve their country. Bring on the CoronaCorps.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Tries to Sink Twitter, His Oldest Enabler
The president’s two strongest instincts stand pitted against each other: his need for attention and his need to punish enemies.
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Netflix Space Force Tells a Terrible Joke About America
And the timing couldn’t be worse.
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Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Utter Incoherence of Trump’s Battle With Twitter
The president’s executive order is opportunistic and Orwellian—but that was the whole point.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: Is Anyone Else Not Showering?
There’s good cleaning and bad cleaning. Jim attempts to explain.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Trump Stokes the Fire in Minnesota
This week, two high-profile incidents laid bare America’s racial contract. Both found accelerants in social media and provoked questions about its role in society.
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A Virginia Church Pivots to Drive-In
In a small town near Roanoke, churchgoers convene for an unconventional service.
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Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Trump Is Doing All of This for Zuckerberg
The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.
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Amazon Prime The Creepy, Clever Sci-Fi Thriller You Need to Watch
The Vast of Night, now on Amazon Prime Video, is a sharp debut from a filmmaker you should pay attention to.
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Getty / The Atlantic / Arsh Raziuddin Can Lindsey Graham Be Beat?
Jaime Harrison believes South Carolina is ready for a young black Democrat.
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John Minchillo / AP Fire and Protests in the Twin Cities
A third day of protests took place yesterday in Minneapolis and St. Paul, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, after an officer kneeled on his neck and ignored his pleas that he couldn’t breathe.
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Getty Images Books About Kids, for Adults
The changes wrought by children: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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