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NASA/Reuters Landing on Mars Is Still Hard
NASA is planning for its tenth Mars-landing attempt next week. If it succeeds, the feat will be worth celebrating.
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Sean Justice / Getty Images What’s Causing the Sex Recession?
Young people are having less sex. The big question is, why?
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Adam Rountree / AP Solving Public Transit’s Perpetual Crisis
While national programs stall, private projects move ahead.
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Jim Young / Reuters The Midterms Are Done. Now What?
The Atlantic’s politics editor looks ahead.
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Jacqueline Roggenbrodt / AP Which Came First, the Divisions or the Tribes?
Researchers provide a crash course in the study of tribalism. Plus, a reading list of the best writing on the subject.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Brace for the Midterms
Two Atlantic reporters on the races they’re watching.
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Mark Lennihan / AP What’s to Be Done About Kids and Their Phones?
New research shows that young people, not just parents, are worried about phone time.
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Karen Yuan / The Atlantic Women’s Anger Still Isn’t Taken Seriously
Rebecca Traister talks about her new book, Good and Mad.
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Jon Super / AP The Joy of Print
A Masthead-exclusive video takes you inside the printing plant that creates The Atlantic magazine.
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Jason Lee / Reuters China Isn’t Hiding Its Internment Camps Anymore
China says its mass detention of Muslims is legal, and even fun.
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Ted Warren / AP Persuading a Carbon-Tax Skeptic
An economist and policy experts respond to a natural-gas worker’s worries that the fight against climate change will hurt Americans like him.
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Caetano Barreira / Reuters Meet The Atlantic’s New Crossword-Puzzle Guru
Caleb Madison is innovating within a decades-old form.
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David Gray / Reuters Change Is in the Air
A rule change at the EPA could have big consequences for how air pollution is regulated.
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Bob Schutz / AP The Trouble With Tribalism
Identity politics divide America, but the idea of warring tribes is too simple.
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J Pat Carter / AP The Disquiet of Florida
Readers grapple with Lauren Groff’s character “consumed with anxiety about the state of the world.”
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Mark Lennihan / AP Alexa Doesn’t Love You
It’s getting easier to become emotionally attached to a voice assistant. That’s a mixed blessing.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Why This Year Could Change the Oscars
After a series of niche Best Picture winners, the awards show is struggling to stay relevant. 2018 could change that.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Images Reading While Angry
Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad is our October book-club pick; C. J. Chivers’ “War Without End” is the winner of our search for the next must-read piece of journalism.
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Charles Krupa / AP Harvard Admissions on Trial
A lawsuit at the prestigious school has implications for affirmative action at universities everywhere.
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic Putting Family Separation on Film
A bonus video for Masthead members. And Jeremy Raff reflects on his documentary, The Separated.
