Skull and Bones and Equity and Inclusion
They wanted to tear down Yale from the inside. Then they got into its most exclusive secret society.
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Photo by David Tipling Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo A Surprising Success Story for Humpback Whales
Half a century after nearly being wiped out, the whales are back in an Antarctic bay.
Jojo Whilden / Paramount A Musical Reboot That Can’t Cross the Generational Gap
The reboot of the classic teen comedy Mean Girls sands off its source material’s edges, to mixed results.
Cody O’Loughlin for The Atlantic What Is Nikki Haley Even Talking About?
Her confident performances have made her the most formidable Republican challenger to Donald Trump. But the more you listen to her, the mushier her message is.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Marka / Getty Exile Changes You Forever
Hisham Matar’s new novel looks at the price of being forced out of one’s home and the impossibility of ever really going back again.
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic Trump on Trial—And on the Trail
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Jonathan Knowles / Getty. American Universities Are Post-truth
Neither conservatives nor liberals trust academic institutions, because they are dishonest.
A Photo Visit to Sweden’s Icehotel
Images of recent versions of Sweden’s annual Icehotel—part art exhibit, part hotel
It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.
Oliver Munday Why Is Bob Ross Still So Popular?
The painter who gave us “happy little trees” is more ubiquitous than ever. (From 2020)
Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic / Animation by Erik Carter / Courtesy of Bob Ross Inc. Waiting for the Weekend
A whole two days off from work, in which we can do what we please, has only recently become a near-universal right. What we choose to do looks increasingly like work, and idleness has acquired a bad name. Herein, a history of leisure. (From 1991)
Wally McNamee / Getty An Odyssey of the North
“They called him the ‘Strange One,’ ‘Ulysses,’ and the ‘Man with the Otter Skins’ … Where did he come from? And what was he doing there? And why did he come from there? Another mystery of the north, Prince, for you to solve.” (From 1900)
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