Washington Ideas Forum 2015
Dispatches from The Atlantic's two-day conference in the U.S. capital
Can Love Be an Answer to Terrorism?
Fourteen years ago in The Atlantic, and three months after the September 11 attacks, Bruce Hoffman wrote on terrorism and…
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Max Taylor Photography Al Gore at the Washington Ideas Forum
The former vice president announces a surprising business achievement, and both cautionary and encouraging political and environmental views.
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Max Taylor How Hillary Clinton Helped Her Employees Manage Work-Life Balance
While secretary of state, she worked from home so that moms and dads could be with their kids on a snow day.
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Max Taylor Al Gore Blames the 2016 Election's Craziness on Television
“Politicians spend 75 percent of their money on 30-second TV ads.”
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'For Months and Months and Months They Were Just Beating Me'
Theo Padnos, an American journalist, was kidnapped in Syria and held for almost two years by the al-Nusra Front. Last…
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Max Taylor The Pottery Barn Rule: Syria Edition
Colin Powell on his famous “you break it, you own it” view of war, and how it’s nice to have a doctrine named after you.
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The Smithsonian The Museum That Resurrected a Slave Ship
The Smithsonian’s African American History Museum, with the help of a worldwide network of scholars, will display pieces of the formerly sunken São José.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Revolutionary Aims of Black Lives Matter
Everybody, the movement’s co-founder says, has a civic duty to “stand on the side of people who have been oppressed for generations.”
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Max Taylor Mitt Romney Surveys the 2016 Field
The former Republican nominee on his would-be heirs, including Donald Trump
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Max Taylor Top Obama Advisor: Syria Won’t Be Stable Until Assad Goes
Russia needs to understand the importance of a political resolution to the civil war, Ben Rhodes says.
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YouTube When the Wedding Crasher Is a Drone
Flying robots: a fun new thing for everyone—from normals to celebrity wedding planners—to worry about when planning a ceremony
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Max Taylor 10 Hours to Save Syria
Republican Senator Bob Corker says one operation in 2013 could have made the real difference.
