In January 2016, Adrienne LaFrance wrote about why cars have become safer while gun safety has remained relatively stagnant.
In August 1957, The Atlantic editors wrote about how the Soviet Union understood Stalin's place in history and the process of de-Stalinization.
The year you were born, Joseph S. Clark, Jr. wrote about how the American liberal movement could recapture the political power it had lost in the 1952 elections.
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The Monkees was released in 1966.
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Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
In September 2012, Alexis C. Madrigal told the story of the forgotten opposition to the Apollo program.
In June 2012, Megan Garber wrote about how Apple computers, once thought to be virus-immune, can now get PC viruses.
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In April 2014, Emma Green wrote about feminism and Lauper's single "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."
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With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
In December 2015, Robinson Meyer wrote about why scientists had accepted this fact.
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