The May 2013 issue of The Atlantic features Charles C. Mann's cover story, "What If We Never Run Out of Oil," a profile of atheist (and jiu-jitsu fighter) Sam Harris, "The Atheist Who Strangled Me," James Parker's meditation on hair metal, and much more. 

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