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Wong Maye-E / AP The Worst Case for Scientific Ethics
As more details come out about the CRISPR baby scandal, the scenario looks bleak.
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Nick Adams / Reuters 25 Years of Reefer Madness
Everything has changed since the drug war of the mid-’90s. And nothing has.
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Scott Olson / Getty Reckoning With R. Kelly
A new documentary puts years of abuse allegations into sharp focus.
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Karen Yuan / The Atlantic The Fallacy of the American Memoir
Kiese Laymon talks about his new best seller, Heavy.
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Dima Gavrysh / AP America’s Cities Can’t Quit Cars
Five years after “Vision Zero” made a splash, ambitious changes have been slow to come.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP New Year, New Congress
The incoming Democratic majority is aiming for big, symbolic measures.
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Yuri Cortez / Getty A Crime Against Culture
In an industry built on trust, a bookseller and a librarian are accused of stealing hundreds of rare books from their colleagues.
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China News Service / Getty China’s New Environmental Story
Over 20-plus years, China has gone from ignoring pollution to taking center stage at climate talks. Here’s how that happened.
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J.D. Pooley / AP Free College in 2020
Can progressive Democrats win on free-college proposals in the upcoming election?
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Illustration: Justin Metz / Concept: Delcan & Co. The Fight for Love and Pleasure
Why are young Americans having a hard time getting down?
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Justin Lambert / Getty How Teens Turned Instagram Into a Dating App
Dating culture is thriving on Instagram and other platforms popular with youth.
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fStop Images - Twins / Getty Why People Watch Sex They’d Never Have
Niche genres such as hentai have become the Cronut of porn.
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Kiyoshi Hijiki / Getty The Case for Comprehensive Sex Ed
Better programs could help combat gender inequality
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Mendelsund / Munday Behind the Scenes with Kate Julian
The author of the “Sex Recession” sits down with The Masthead.
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Frank Augstein / AP Why Jeremy Corbyn Isn’t Fighting Brexit
Labour’s leader is focused instead on purging the party of Tony Blair’s legacy.
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Gabriel Bouys / Getty A New Answer to the World’s Biggest Literary Mystery
Who is Elena Ferrante? One of our reporters believes that she’s figured it out.
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Mark Lennihan / AP The Outlandish Idea of a Free, Public Library
Susan Orlean talks about her new best seller, The Library Book.
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Francois Mori / AP Taking Soros Seriously
The Masthead revisits George Soros’s 1997 Atlantic cover story
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How to Look Away
People are finding new ways to ignore the stories clamoring for their attention.
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China Stringer Network/Reuters Reporting on China’s Cone of Silence
Xinjiang is one of the world’s biggest human-rights stories—and one of the hardest for reporters to cover.
