The Masthead
Membership from The Atlantic
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Charles P. Gorry / AP How to Copyedit The Atlantic
“Read it. Then read it again, and again, and again."
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters When Do Memorials Help?
Memorials can help people mourn. But they can also mire visitors in difficult emotions.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters The Palestinian Struggle Transcends Religion
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters How a Reporter Sees the Korea Crisis
An Atlantic journalist opens up his notebook
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Alex Brandon / AP Is a Moral Compass Enough for the CIA?
After Gina Haspel’s confirmation, we revisit the agency’s legacy of torture, and consider how agents make ethical decisions today.
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Craig Cutler / The Atlantic Images of a New American Aristocracy
“People just honed in on the picture of a child in a Yale t-shirt.”
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VichanChairat / Getty Images What If a Robot Wrote This Article?
Google’s new AI communicates like a human. Why does that matter?
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Misha Japaridze / AP What Does Iran Think? Ask the Soviets
The history of arms control talks has important lessons for the Iran deal. In archived transcripts, Soviet negotiators opened up about what they really thought at the time.
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Bettmann / Getty Images What If America Had Taken Its Own Advice on Race?
“With a powerful analysis of the problems of institutional racism before them, the government and the public moved in a very different direction.”
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Mike Blake / Reuters All the President’s Lawyers
Who really represents Trump?
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Fratelli Alinari IDEA S.p.A. / Getty Images Why Do So Few Women Write Letters to the Editor?
“In many cases, the confidence men have is not particularly warranted.”
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Kristoffer Tripplaar / The Atlantic What Teachers Are Striking For
“You know that when teachers band together on their own, it’s gotta be bad.”
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Darren Staples / Reuters Race, Genetics, and Scientific Freedom
“We are constantly reevaluating what questions are even worth asking.”
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Cheerleading Went from Raucous and Male to Restrictive and Female
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Presidents Speak
“And may God bless the United States of America.” -
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Khaled Al Hariri / Reuters Remembering Syria Before the War
“A lot of people from all over the world come to see our city.”
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Nir Elias / Reuters What We Still Don’t Know About Marijuana
(A lot.)
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Timothy A. Clary / Getty Images The Problem With Families
What happens when individual interests conflict with the interests of the family?
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Leah Millis / Reuters How Could Congress Address Facebook?
Plus, what the platform reveals about the ingenuity of American racism.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic What Should We Call the Parkland Generation?
Move over, Millennials.
