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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…

  • Nshira Turkson
October 6, 2015
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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.

  • James Fallows
October 1, 2015
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.

  • Robinson Meyer
October 1, 2015
Max Taylor

Al Gore Blames the 2016 Election's Craziness on Television

“Politicians spend 75 percent of their money on 30-second TV ads.”

  • Robinson Meyer
October 1, 2015

'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…

  • James Bennet
October 1, 2015
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.

  • Kathy Gilsinan
September 30, 2015
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.

  • Megan Garber
September 30, 2015
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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.”

  • Megan Garber
September 30, 2015
Max Taylor

Mitt Romney Surveys the 2016 Field

The former Republican nominee on his would-be heirs, including Donald Trump

  • Molly Ball
September 30, 2015
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.

  • Kathy Gilsinan
September 30, 2015
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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

  • Megan Garber
September 30, 2015
Max Taylor

10 Hours to Save Syria

Republican Senator Bob Corker says one operation in 2013 could have made the real difference.

  • Kathy Gilsinan
September 30, 2015
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