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The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet
A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.
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Illustration by Ana Miminoshvili The Mystery of the Golden Coffin
How did $65 million of allegedly stolen antiquities wind up in two of the world’s greatest museums?
Illustration by Lucy Naland. Source: Facundo Morales / NurPhoto / Getty Here’s Another Way America Will Choke at the World Cup
The nation’s railway system is destined to lose.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty The Democrats Can’t Let Go of Racial Preferences
How to persuade skeptical voters to take a fresh look at the party
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The transportation secretary’s new reality show comes at an inopportune time.
Sergio Amiti / Getty How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition
The school’s famous Honor Code was no match for chatbot-enabled cheating.
Kevin Dietsch / Getty Big Brother Is ReTruthing You
Donald Trump is a victim of propaganda as much as he is a manipulator of it.
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Andres Gutierrez / Anadolu / Getty The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth
Knowing how a virus spreads is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.
Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty The People Who Don’t Read Books
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character. (From 2023)
Liana Finck Three Rules for Middle-Age Happiness
Gather friends and feed them, laugh in the face of calamity, and cut out all the things––people, jobs, body parts––that no longer serve you. (From 2021)
Associated Press Love in America
“It is as if the experience of being in love could only be one of two things: a superhuman ecstasy, the way of reaching heaven on earth and in pairs; or a psychopathic condition to be treated by specialists.” (From 1938)
Stephan Savoia / AP Why Americans Hate the Media
Why has the media establishment become so unpopular? Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems. (From 1996)
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