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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Trump Can’t Find Anyone to Be His Chief of Staff
Sure, the job is terrible—but that’s not new. What’s different is that this president can’t use the same leverage that predecessors such as George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton did.
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Emma McIntyre / Getty for KROQ / Entercom Photos of the Week: State Funeral, Mass Marriage, Krampus Parade
A prison beauty contest in Brazil, a 3-D-printed e-motorcycle in Germany, the state funeral of former President George H. W. Bush, SantaCon in New York City, “yellow vest” protests in Paris, and much more
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters When Elon Musk Switches on ‘Insane Mode’
“Someone with his combination of character traits—you’re always going to get the good with the bad.”
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Ben Blackall / BBC America The Radical Helplessness of the New Doctor Who
The latest season did something surprising with the long-running show’s first female lead: It often allowed her to be powerless in the face of injustice.
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Adam Dunn City Frogs Are the Sexiest Frogs
Two new studies show how certain animals can adapt to the din of human activity in surprising ways.
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wavegrower What Keeps Black Holes From Expanding Everywhere?
Black holes are somehow able to grow constantly without changing their size. Physics might finally be able to explain why.
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Phil Noble / Reuters Theresa May Is Running Out of Options
After she canceled a key Brexit vote, few possibilities remain: no confidence, no deal, or no Brexit at all.
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James Leynse / Corbis / Getty Americans Are Weirdly Obsessed With Paper Towels
Other countries swear by brooms, mops, and sponges. The U.S. prefers something more disposable.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Serving Trump Revealed Who John Kelly Always Was
Some who enter this president’s service are changed for the worse. Others have been that way all along.
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Richard Drew / AP The Dangerous ‘New Phase’ for Donald Trump
The incoming House Judiciary chairman says the president has allegedly been involved in “massive frauds against the American people.”
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Bianca Bagnarelli / The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I Don’t Know How to Set Boundaries With My Parents
They say they’re trying to protect me and my brothers during the divorce process, but they’re dragging us into their problems.
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Danny Wild / USA Today Sports / Reuters Trump Doesn’t Want a Chief of Staff
Someone needs to get the White House under control—but the president won’t let it happen.
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Younis Al-Bayati / AFP / Getty Don’t Shut Down the Internet’s Biggest Jihadist Archive
Jihadology.net is a valuable resource for researchers, even if terrorists make use of it too.
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Clive Brunskill / Getty A Book That Honors an Underrated Sport
The Circuit, Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s latest book, deftly chronicles tennis’s 2017 season with a joyful reverence.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP John Delaney Is Playing the Long Game
The Maryland Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate has visited all 99 of Iowa’s counties—well before many better-known Democrats have even decided whether to run.
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The Atlantic The Real Roots of American Rage
The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.
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Evan Vucci / AP As Good an Attorney General as We’re Likely to Get
William Barr’s statements raise serious questions, but he appears far more qualified than the other candidates that Trump reportedly considered for the post.
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Melinda Josie How to Sing
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Will McNamee / Getty Letters: ‘Dingell Has Hit on a Solution to Cut the Gordian Knot’
Readers respond to John D. Dingell’s proposal for how to fix Congress.
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Ian Wright; photo by David Harrison; courtesy of ... The Haunting Last Letters of Sylvia Plath
As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers.
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Hassan Ammar / AP The Benefits of a Foreign-Language Tattoo
Even when it goes wrong, body art in another tongue can be a good thing. An Object Lesson.
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Frank Augstein / AP Arab Countries Are a Minefield for Scholars
Matthew Hedges wasn’t the first academic to stand accused of espionage, and he won’t be the last.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press A Close Reading of the 235-Page Comey Transcript
The transcript from Friday’s closed-door hearing was made public late Saturday, and it confirms that Mueller is pursuing a possible obstruction-of-justice case against the president.
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Reuters / Department of Justice The Mysterious Return of Manafort’s ‘Russian Brain’
Mueller says that the former Trump campaign chairman repeatedly lied about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with ties to Russian intelligence.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Mitch McConnell Appears to Be Killing Bipartisan Sentencing Reform
Advocates claim that the bill would pass with a supermajority in the Senate, but the majority leader says it’s dividing his caucus.
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Vincent Yu / AP The Death of Democracy in Hong Kong
Four years later, it’s clear that the reforms advocated by 2014’s youth-led, pro-democracy protest movement won’t take shape.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The 22 Best TV Shows of 2018
The new and returning series that stood out the most
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s ‘Da Nang Dick’ Tweets and the Definition of Hypocrisy
The president called out Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal for misrepresenting his Vietnam service, without reference to his own misrepresentations or his medical exemption for bone spurs.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters John Kelly Couldn't Fix the Trump Presidency
Under Kelly’s guidance, the White House functioned more effectively than it had during the tenure of his predecessor—yet it still remained unfathomably chaotic.
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Sally Deng Toward Happy Civilization
A traveler plots an escape from a rural train station.
