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Thomas Peipert / AP / Shutterstock / The ... What Would Happen if Trump Refused to Leave Office?
A peaceful transfer of power is necessary for American democracy to survive.
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Photo illustration: Weronika Gęsicka; Alamy The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Democratic Establishment Is Broken
After the Nevada caucus, Democratic Party leaders have never looked more uncertain about their future.
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Ben Childers Eastern Kentucky Has Been Underwater, but You Probably Didn’t Notice
An out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality can take hold when people lose their connection to nature.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters This Is How Kleptocracies Work
Trump’s pardons were shocking to some, but to me they were eerily familiar—straight out of the kleptocratic playbook I’ve studied in a dozen other countries.
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Associated Press The Differences Between Warren and Sanders Matter
Where socialism imagines greater concentrations of power, her vision ultimately points in the direction of a more decentralized, more competitive economy.
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Luci Gutiérrez An Ode to Cold Showers
Fling wide the plastic curtain, take a breath, and step right in.
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Illustration: Mishko; Hanna Alandi / Getty The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
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Aly Song / Reuters How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
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Analysis of Wikipedia IP editor activity Mapping Wikipedia
An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images What Democrats Aren’t Admitting About Trump’s Record
The episodes in which critics’ predictions weren't borne out offer valuable lessons for Trump’s challengers, even if they still vigorously disagree with the moves the president has made.
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Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern
The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference.
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Nikhef / Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics ... Gravitational Waves Have Revealed a Stellar Mystery
A surprising star collision is making scientists rethink what they know about the universe.
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Stas Moroz / Shutterstock Oregon: Images of the Beaver State
A few glimpses into the varied landscape of Oregon, and some of the animals and people calling it home
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Scott Olson / Getty / Katie Martin / ... The Sanders Doctrine
The presidential candidate wants to redefine American power.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Is Going to Cheat
How should Democrats fight against a president who has no moral or legal compass?
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Carlos Javier Ortiz The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Tomohiro Ohsumi / Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / ... The Paradox of Rodrigo Duterte
The president’s political success illustrates many of the reasons populist leaders the world over are able to bypass challenges that would torpedo a more typical politician.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / ... The First Days of the Trump Regime
The president has interpreted the Republican-controlled Senate’s vote to acquit as a writ of absolute power.
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Mendelsund & Munday What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
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