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January 1988 Issue
January 1988 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Word Watch
    Anne H. Soukhanov
  • The January Almanac
  • Notes: Ephemeral States
    David Owen
  • Public Health: Aids and Syphilis
    Katie Leishman
  • Washington: Nuclear Missions
    Jonathan Tasini
  • Los Angeles Comes of Age
    Charles Lockwood and Christopher B. Leinberger

Breaking: Trump's latest indictment may be far more serious than his first.

Public Health: Aids and Syphilis

Researchers in the United States and Germany have startling hypotheses about the relationship of the two diseases

By Katie Leishman
January 1988 Issue
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