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Our Towns
National politics may dominate the headlines, but local politics is where to find cooperation and innovation.
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The Friendship Files
Friendly conversations with friends about friendship
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The Fight for Love and Pleasure
Why are young Americans having a hard time getting down?
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The Best of 2018
Highlights from the year in culture
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The Speech Wars
The fight over free expression
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The Atlantic Festival 2018
Dispatches from The Atlantic's 10th-annual live event in Washington, D.C.
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Life on the Edge in America
Selected Atlantic coverage of vulnerable communities
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Is Democracy Dying?
Investigating a perilous moment
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The Great College Rip-Off
Why higher education in the U.S. is so expensive, and what students really pay for.
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Ideas 2018
Dispatches from the Aspen Ideas Festival/Spotlight Health
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Human Capital
How technology and globalization are changing what it means to work
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Virginia's Juvenile Justice Reform
The state’s juvenile-detention system has been shrinking for years. Now, there's just one facility left: Bon Air.
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KING
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, his legacy is still being written.
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No Way Out
A jury found Benjamine Spencer guilty. Then a judge found him innocent. He’s still in prison. Does the truth matter?
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Metropolis Now
METROPOLIS NOW
Technology is transforming city life, for better and worse -
The Unfree
People forced to work in circumstances beyond their control
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Object Lessons
Articles published in partnership with Object Lessons
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1968
Revisiting the year that gave rise to modern America
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What Makes a Worker?
The possibilities and pitfalls of job training and apprenticeship
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On Craftsmanship
Videos and audio stories about what it means to master a trade