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For subscribers: A ‘swan’ song from a global pop sensation
This is The Atlantic’s weekly email to subscribers—a close look at the issues our writers are watching, just for you.
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Beck Diefenbach/Reuters For members: Trump’s big housing reform, Jay-Z’s NFL deal, Impossible Burger in grocery stores
Atlantic writers look ahead at their beats.
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Eric Risberg/AP Five Stories From the Future
Atlantic writers look ahead at Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, the next Great British Bake Off, the big split in retail, and more.
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Indian Space Research Organisation Handout/Reuters Five Stories We’re Watching
Atlantic writers look ahead at India’s moon landing, WeWork’s giant IPO filing, Taylor Swift’s Lover, and more.
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Tom Brenner/Getty Images Five Stories We’re Watching
Atlantic writers look ahead at gun-control momentum, Kashmir’s status change, the secrets of Jeffrey Epstein, and more.
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Callaghan O'Hare / Reuters Hurry Up and (Pay for My) Leave
There’s new energy behind the movement for paid family and medical leave.
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Eric Lafforgue / Art In All Of Us ... The Parent Hack
The latest sensor-enabled technology treats parenting as something to be hacked.
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David Zalubowski / AP The Canine Craze for Cannabis
The CBD market for pets has exploded. But there’s no way to verify what your unsuspecting pup is ingesting.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Neglected Criminal-Justice Problem
Jails haven’t gotten as much attention as other criminal-justice problems. A new wave of sheriffs is trying to change that.
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Ajit Solanki / AP The Streets Are Alive With the Sound of Traffic
City noise is harmful. What’s being done to save urbanites’ ears?
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Dylan Martinez / AP The Heir to the (Brexit) Throne
British conservatives are selecting the next prime minister. Most voters won’t get a say.
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R. Gates / Getty Ida B. Wells’s Uncompromising View of Suffrage
The movement for women’s suffrage often excluded black women. That didn’t stop Ida B. Wells’s activism.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters It’s the Policy, Stupid
Some Democrats are scrapping their playbooks and reenvisioning what may be politically possible in the Trump era.
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Matt Rourke / AP The Fight to Change the Abortion Debate
States are taking new actions to challenge Roe v. Wade. But the abortion debate itself remains an old political argument.
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Ramon Espinosa/ AP You Get a Tariff! You Get a Tariff! Everybody Gets a Tariff!
Trump is threatening tariffs on Mexico. That would put the entire global economy at risk.
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O'Hara / AP Stories for Life After War
Phil Klay’s Redeployment reveals that telling stories can help soldiers recover from war, but only so much.
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Gerald Herbert/ AP The Codes We Live By
Don’t snub building codes. These jargony construction standards shape the man-made world around us.
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Damian Dovarganes/ AP Where Should Students Learn How to Think?
In school or outside of school? The Masthead debates the best setting for students to learn critical thinking.
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Thibault Camus/ AP Why 2020 Is the Most Consequential Election Ever
The upcoming presidential election will be the fork in the road for some of America’s biggest decisions.
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Ted S. Warren/ AP Can A State Unban Affirmative Action?
Washington State decided to let colleges use race in admissions decisions. But the public might change its mind.
