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The critic dream hampton thinks hip-hop is broken. But she can’t stop trying to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The drama now unfolding will make for perhaps the most surreal presidential-election cycle in American history. How will it end? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chili peppers thrive in hot and dry conditions. But even they have their limits. By Katherine J. Wu.
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In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world. Read more from our September 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Has the national obsession with trauma done real damage to teen girls? Read more from our September 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong. By Jennifer Senior. Read more from our September 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience. By Ed Yong. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An internet personality who espouses fascism, racism, and bodybuilding has won influential converts. Read more from our September 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Take Antarctica off your travel bucket list.
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The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence. Read more from our September 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is feeding Americans’ appetite for conspiracies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lies, panic, and ponies. Read more from our July/August 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow. What happened? Read more from our July/August 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A road trip across my adopted America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
And why local governments hate it Read more from our July/August 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
America has paid a steep price for devoting too much space to storing cars. Read more from our July/August 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
But now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it. Read more from our July/August 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can hard-core gamers learn to play well with others? Read more from our July/August 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence. Read more from our July/August 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong? Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The perils of searching for feminist heroes in antiquity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The actor—and now novelist—reflects on how he got here, and the other lives he might have lived instead. Story by Chris Heath. Read more from our June 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The enduring appeal of watching human beings attempt to master the Alaskan backcountry. Story by James Parker. Read more from our June 2023 issue. Give the gift of The Atlantic today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
His life has been an attempt to reconcile the competing demands of radical faith and rock and roll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Inside Paramount’s Yellowstone juggernaut Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If China wants to do something drastic, President Tsai Ing-wen told me, “Xi has to weigh the costs. He has to think twice.”
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What it takes to make it in hip-hop’s new capital
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On the 165th anniversary of The Atlantic’s founding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ABBA makes a triumphant return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For Orhan Pamuk, political satire is a slippery and dangerous art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What the fratricidal fury of the country’s civil war a century ago can teach us about the invasion of Ukraine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the 1980s, the photographer Jack Lueders-Booth captured life along the city’s Orange Line.
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Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The improbable rise and savage fall of Siegfried & Roy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?
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To bring change to Belarus, a band of fighters is taking up arms in Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The author reflects on a charmed life—and all that could have gone wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bedtime stories aren’t just for children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why do so many kids need glasses now? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thousands of pieces of art were looted by the British in what is now Nigeria, and are held in mostly Western museums. What to do with them is a harder question than it might seem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gen Z never learned to read cursive. How will they interpret the past? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why boys should start school a year later than girls
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Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. But what about the stories we tell ourselves? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How ordinary Ukrainians rallied to save their nation—and defend the values Americans claim to hold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a knack for inserting himself into the pivotal moments of Ukraine’s history. I wanted to see the war through his eyes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Scenes from the effort to save Ukrainian art from destruction
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Sterlin Harjo’s genre-mixing, cliché-exploding series captures coming of age as a Native kid like no TV show before it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after World War II. I’ve been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Romance novels celebrate female pleasure and aspiration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I can’t believe how good we sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The author’s novel about race transformation fails to take an old idea to new places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Suddenly everyone is “toxic.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Elizabethan poet and divine was a mystic in bed and a mystic in the pulpit.an poet and divine was a mystic in bed and a mystic in the pulpit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When women enter the frame Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When Kabul fell, my sister and I almost didn’t get out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The sound of gentrification is silence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This poem appears in the September 2022 print edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Steve Bannon is still scheming. And he’s still a threat to democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Half a century ago, the British government forcibly removed 2,000 people from a remote string of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean. They’ve never stopped struggling to return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An obsessive protector of rock’s past could hold the key to its future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“I’m going to find out what the hell the FBI did and I’m going to expose it to the world.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The U.S. can’t keep ignoring the threat these weapons pose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
These ostensible paradises have a dark side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When writing across cultural divides flattens characters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A father dares to explore his rage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Truly an essential, indispensable, necessitous volume Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What was it that gave her such power? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How long will Polish solidarity with Ukrainian refugees last? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The movement spent 40 years at war with secular America. Now it’s at war with itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A bloodstain expert’s testimony helped put him in prison. But can forensic science be trusted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First comes the dehumanization. Then comes the killing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Greg Gutfeld has owned the libs all the way to the top of the ratings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Perrotta reassesses his ’90s antihero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The shared history of apes and humans has long been put to political use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The director brings his signature theme—adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What will the future of abortion in America look like? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What do the descendants of dethroned monarchs have to offer the continent in the 21st century? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, once seen as the oracle of the nation’s innocence, is recast as a poet of conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unless democracies defend themselves, the forces of autocracy will destroy them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chauncey Hare captured the drudgery of office life in order to protest it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Better Call Saul is dazzling, and frustrating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elif Batuman’s curious experiment in fiction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who gets to keep a secret in a hyperconnected world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The smells, the sounds, the bodywash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Asked about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman said, “If that’s the way we did things, Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How a Mississippi inmate became an advocate for his own execution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I’d run out of sympathy for COVID skeptics. Then I remembered my father’s stiff neck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’ve turned schools into battlefields, and our kids are the casualties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How one photographer documented the aftermath of Colorado’s Marshall Fire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The friendship that made On the Road—and the Beat Generation—possible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The country wanted modern prosperity and traditional values. It could only have one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
His approval rating hit historic lows, his party was fractious, crises were everywhere. But Truman rescued his presidency, and his legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why can’t America see that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thanks to the streaming wars, stars in their 40s are finally getting interesting roles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Does acting need to be grueling to be good? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Revered as a national symbol, reviled as an actual bird Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What everyone gets wrong about Sheila Heti’s fiction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Either you’re early or you’re late. I choose tardiness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dispatches from a moral panic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the Republican Party away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own naïveté. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To support the Republican narrative that our elections are rife with misconduct, someone needs to take the fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The rich philosophical tradition I fell in love with has been reduced to Fox News and voter suppression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Capturing the intensity of a crowd’s adulation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, John Milton was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He was beloved by Americans who could agree on little else. Was he too eager to please? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The idea that such a catastrophe is unavoidable in America is inflammatory and corrosive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Her new novel experiments with alternative versions of history, upending personal and national destinies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The United States has a dirty-money problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You’re better than this, sweet land of liberty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How the country came to view religion as a threat to national identity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Inside the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Suspicion is undermining the American economy.
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American consumers can’t resist the lure of a well-designed container. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Technicolor scenes from a bygone Miami Beach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, rats’ teeth are getting shorter. What’s in store for us? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Void of nutritional value, divorced from the intense culinary process that is actual barbecuing, irresistible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Inside Alden Global Capital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why did he lie about his sources? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One family’s journey into the middle class Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
At last he’s put aside the pyrotechnics and gone all in on his great theme: the American family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is the collapse of genre boundaries and the erosion of fervent musical loyalties a good thing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Could that finally be changing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When two megafires converged on a small town in Oregon, the community faced a choice. People could flee, leaving the town to its fate. Or they could stay and fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new norms, judgment can be swift—and merciless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The new Candyman escapes a long tradition of exploiting Black pain for cheap scares. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The way to reduce gun violence is by convincing ordinary, “responsible” handgun owners that their weapons make them, their families, and those around them less safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nate Bargatze’s humor is slow, inoffensive, even soothing. And he’s one of the hottest acts in comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let the states sort it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I never gave much thought to the champagne-soaked world of Formula 1. Then I watched Drive to Survive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How the classic strategy game drew me back in Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
American service members reflect on their time in Afghanistan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Colson Whitehead subverts genre conventions in his new book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Half a century after the sexual revolution, a new generation of feminists understands that we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What animal lives closer to us than you do? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
François Poulain was ahead of his time—and ours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the first sign that the 21st century would be a period of shock and disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The only thing getting me through my 30s is a cranky, agoraphobic chihuahua named Midge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the writer’s classic study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book aims to change that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Are environmental crusaders like Douglas Tompkins good for the planet? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Irish writer has been accused of being overly sentimental and insufficiently political. In her new novel, she makes the case for her approach to fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What two new books reveal about the white progressive pursuit of racial virtue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Morning people fizzle. Non-morning people get stronger as the day wears on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What I learned on the line at a Dodge City slaughterhouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Boris Johnson knows exactly what he’s doing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A little alcohol can boost creativity and strengthen social ties. But there’s nothing moderate, or convivial, about the way many Americans drink today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many people who have been working from home are experiencing a void they can’t quite name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Its films have always celebrated a pluralistic India, making the industry—and its Muslim elite—a prime target for Narendra Modi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reconsidering the meaning of Maverick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What pioneering new research has revealed about the forest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
And how The Mandalorian can restore the true power of George Lucas’s galaxy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The existential exhilaration of playing chicken with Time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Three years after his polarizing confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court’s 114th justice remains a mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative idea for helping families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to die Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What do you wear to the reopening of society? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What it’s like to care for a newborn, in photos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In her new memoir, Alison Bechdel runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Soloflexes her way toward transcendence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Louis Menand’s monumental new study of Cold War culture, success owes less to vision and purpose than to self-promotion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore the liberating power of isolation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A previously unpublished novel invites a reassessment of a writer criticized for his doctrinaire pessimism about race in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The stories you hold on to will be colored by your own experience—but also by the experiences of those around you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new cohort of directors, all women, is exploring the death wish that infuses the genre—and proposing visions of repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
His proposals are radical. He’s obsessed with robots. He’s never even worked in government. And next year he might be running New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For better, for worse, and possibly forever Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As stores disappear, shopping in your own wardrobe becomes the ultimate luxury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Street photography as collaboration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Television turns to magical realism to explore the trials of early adolescence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New York is getting more out of the domestic oil boom than North Dakota ever will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed. Lessons from the struggle to update the Royal Museum for Central Africa, outside Brussels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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They attract money and attention to the predominantly white universities that showcase them, while HBCUs struggle. What would happen if they collectively decided to go to black schools? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Juanita Broaddrick, who alleges that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, has found new life as a Trump defender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Scientists have theories as to why—some worrisome, some hopeful, all involving humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials, this generation may have missed its chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They get away with their crimes about 40 percent of the time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mick Herron writes about the broken spies sworn to protect today’s broken England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Her beauty and celebrity eclipse the real source of her allure—her commitment to aesthetic self-discipline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ben Lerner, portraitist of talkative men, explores the roots of white male rage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why the end of fertility doesn’t mark the start of decline—and may even help explain our success as a species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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After years of being ill, I found myself with one of medicine’s most bitterly contested diagnoses—a baffling disease that has pitted experts against one another and against patients. But new insights are at last accumulating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A human-rights icon’s fall from grace in Myanmar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Outnumbered by drunk and disorderly visitors, the Netherlands fights back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Appliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In a new translation of the Book of Job, the famously repentant hero gives God a piece of his mind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The setting of her new novel is terror-ridden Nigeria, a world away from her native Ireland, but the psychic territory is familiar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The justice’s reactionary legal philosophy rests on faith in the power of adversity to fuel black progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A small area in France has a long history of extraordinary kindness to strangers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The return of a vanquished disease reflects historical amnesia, declining faith in institutions, and a troubling lack of concern for the public good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Instantaneous communication can be destructive. We need to tweak our digital platforms to make time for extra eyes, cooler heads, and second thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
AI will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think much harder about how to adapt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs—at the expense of everyone else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For the nearly departed, a new bucket-list entry: “Build my casket” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The great showman taught us to love hyperbole, fake news, and a good hoax. A century and a half later, the show has escaped the tent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston—spurred on by Franz Boas—revolutionized the way we think about humanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
These days, it seems, just about all organizations are asking their employees to do more with less. Is that actually a good idea? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Gay men once developed codes to ensure safety in the hunt for sex. Can they help #MeToo do the same? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Americans are hypochondriacs, yet we skip our checkups. We demand drugs we don’t need, and fail to take the ones we do. No wonder the U.S. leads the world in health spending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dispatched by Life magazine to cover the Apollo 11 mission, Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Burrow far below the planet’s surface, and even there, humanity has left its imprint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Sabermetrics” changed the national pastime. Now another technological revolution is transforming the game, for good or ill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The first time, she was raped. The second, she nearly drowned. In order to live in the United States legally, she had to leave her family and attempt to cross the border once more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the Hungarian prime minister systematically undermined his own country’s education system, one institution stood defiant: a university in the heart of Budapest, founded by George Soros. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The authorship controversy, almost as old as the works themselves, has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford. Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia Bassano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Even robots are trying to hold Donald Trump accountable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can the stars of the hit podcast Bodega Boys win over a broader—and whiter—audience on Showtime? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The social network is predictable and dreary. My quest to make it random and fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The strange psychology of why so many people fail to notice obviously counterfeit money Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How the hit podcast has revealed the creative process of artists as diverse as Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, and Lorde Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How the “food revolution” turned us into snackers, guaranteeing the demise of healthy home cooking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aïda Muluneh’s vibrant images explore Ethiopian identity, and her photo festival aspires to shape a new vision of the continent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No other matchup would be as riveting—or as revealing—as Harris versus Trump. But first she has to get through the primaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
America had a mind shaped by its Founders, but the country needed the poet to discover its spirit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s more likely than most people think—and compared with his first term, its effects would be far more durable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Embracing your inner child is comforting and fun—and just might revitalize the English language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a time of outsider politics, can the ultimate insider resurrect his family’s brand? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Salmon on psychotropics, platypuses on prozac, and other strange tales from the wild Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Adams and John Quincy Adams’s virtuous disdain for partisanship was at the root of their failures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict retailers’ sales. Is that cheating? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new anthology of sportswriting celebrates the poetry written in the press box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A remarkable novel, Lost Children Archive, and a work of history, The End of the Myth, reckon with a walled border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Siri Hustvedt’s new novel explores fiction’s role in feminist consciousness-raising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We need to make hard decisions now about what will truly benefit current and future Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The many towers that Trump never built Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The national security adviser could be our best hope for protecting the world from Donald Trump’s impulses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How a small group of activists (our correspondent among them) got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ramin Djawadi’s score helped make the show a hit—and brought unlikely fame to the composer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Uniqlo has become the unofficial clothier of urban Millennials. Can it catch on with the rest of America? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The weirdly hopeful story of how the U.S. came to be a leader in tax compliance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ellen DeGeneres, daytime superstar, is itching to try something new. But America needs the old Ellen more than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amy Hempel’s best short stories reveal how rich spareness can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public with hints of dark secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There’s scant evidence that they’re effective. They can, however, be psychologically damaging—and they reflect a dismaying view of childhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the line between work and home blurs, office supplies attract sticky fingers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The director discusses the absence of men in his early life and his movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We had scarcely discovered the parasite Felicola isidoroi when it vanished forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the car of the future, you may care more about how the driver’s seat swivels than how the engine purrs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He was a writer-artist ahead of his time, but Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and American culture have finally caught up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The chief justice writes fiercely conservative opinions, yet champions the Court’s political independence. How will he respond to a constitutional crisis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Thomson’s fascinating, and frustrating, tour of gay subversion and female oppression in American movies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The untold story of how we all got so mad at one another Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From seizing control of the internet to declaring martial law, President Trump may legally do all kinds of extraordinary things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Monks, nomads, and a sport’s unlikely ascent in a remote corner of the globe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We allowed an important idea—American exceptionalism—to be hijacked and misused. Now we need to rescue that idea and let it guide America at home and abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump’s ideological cousins around the world want to reverse the feminist gains of recent decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As machines fill the skies, they meet resistance from the animals who already live there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The case for a new term that describes all sexual minorities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marijuana legalization was supposed to decrease crime—but the reality is more complicated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Big Pharma knows about people’s hardwired instinct to reciprocate when given a gift Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new biography squares the decorous legal figure with the feminist gladiator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Hark, the characters are distracted, and their author veers between satire and sincerity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Twenty years ago this month, Bill Clinton became the first president to be impeached since Andrew Johnson, in 1868. The Clinton battle reverberates in American society and politics to this day. We offer a recounting by people who played a role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For the third time in a century, the American left has forced the Democratic Party to co-opt its politics. If history is any guide, leftists now have a rare opportunity to make the country a more equitable place. But they could also overplay their hand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The pseudonymous author has said all along that her identity lies in her writing. I’ve followed the literary clues. Here’s where they’ve led me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump likes to pit elite and non-elite white people against each other. Why do white liberals play into his trap? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Anna Todd started writing her first book, After, on her phone. Five years later, her stories are making millions of dollars around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Great Virginia Grape Heist, and other tales of agricultural banditry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Navarro—a business-school professor, a get-rich guru, a former Peace Corps member, and a former Democrat—is among the most important generals in Trump’s trade war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Language apps like Duolingo are addictive—but not particularly effective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The literary hero’s coffee-chugging, cigarette-devouring creator, Lee Child, just released his latest novel. He shows no signs of slowing down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Movies like Boy Erased and Love, Simon show gay teens undergoing rites of passages that upend the classic Breakfast Club script. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
His champions now span the ideological spectrum, but left and right miss the tensions in his views. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Having lived a hard life, the late author refused to erase her female characters—or the brutality that deranges them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The voice revolution has only just begun. Today, Alexa is a humble servant. Very soon, she could be much more—a teacher, a therapist, a confidant, an informant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What the canonization of Óscar Romero says about the Catholic Church and its embattled leader Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He turned politics into a vicious blood sport, broke Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A boisterous new age of global children’s entertainment has arrived—and it’s not at all what we adults were expecting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The iconoclastic author, whose six-volume My Struggle is now complete in English, has lost his faith in radical self-exposure. What happened? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Classical liberal values have disappeared from the right and are now disappearing from the left. Someone needs to reclaim them. Why not the GOP? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Shaye Elliott became the Gwyneth Paltrow of pioneer living. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What are we to make of the deathbed confession of the political operative Lee Atwater, newly revealed, that he staged the events that brought down Gary Hart in 1987? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The number of publicly traded companies is falling. Is the little guy getting shut out of the most lucrative investments? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now 76, with a new album, the pop legend may have made more people happy than any other artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tackling the Trump era, she brings us the American-family novel as Sunday talk show—all sound bite, no depth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two men chronicle their rise into the meritocratic elite, exposing pernicious myths and brutal realities along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rebecca Traister invokes fury to unify women in a battle against men, but being mad can prove divisive, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Americans once learned self-governance by practicing it constantly—in lodge halls, neighborhood associations, and labor unions. As participation in these institutions has dwindled, so has public faith in democracy. To restore it, we must return democratic practices to everyday life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Constitution once united a diverse country under a banner of ideas. But partisanship has turned Americans against one another—and against the principles enshrined in our founding document. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” Today, the country Remains divided by racism—and the threat is as existential as it was before the civil war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Founders designed a government that would be insulated from the heat of popular sentiment, but they didn’t anticipate the unbridled passions of the digital age. Here’s how the constitutional order can survive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The U.S. Constitution is an American document. And American law should look exclusively to American precedents. right? Not so, a Supreme Court justice says. That approach sounds good in theory, but the laws of other countries have a bearing on our own—and the highest court in the land needs to take heed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I grew up in a gun-loving town in Alabama. My grandfather’s store sells firearms. But only after I was shot did I begin to understand America’s complicated relationship with guns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will American democracy survive Trump? And will the midterms matter? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Texas evangelical built an empire by teaching scripture to women—and being deferential to men. Now she’s risking it all to speak out against sexism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some animals are going nocturnal to avoid their main enemy— us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the 50th anniversary of his Olympic moment, the gold medalist Tommie Smith considers his legacy, and the resurgence of athlete activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Office workers murder each other more than you might think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is one of the most honest—and fatalistic—books about global warming yet written. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The birds at the Tower of London lend themselves to symbolic reading, but their reality is more fascinating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If philosophy can serve as therapy, it’s not by offering solace but by jolting the soul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A young generation of artists is winning prizes, acclaim, and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Democrats are betting on a diversifying electorate to secure their party’s future, but second-generation Latinos won’t willingly accept a deeply unequal society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For the past 13 years, I’ve given the platform my photos, my videos, my likes, and untold hours of my time. Sifting through it all was amusing and surprising—and weirdly sad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Correia wants you to prepare for the worst day of your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new book about a terrible crime sheds light on the novel’s enduring allure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peering into the secrets of Louisa May Alcott’s real life sheds light on her treasured coming-of-age tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How technology has changed the way we look at whales—and ourselves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A court battle between German and Israeli archives over his manuscripts raised literary, not just legal, questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices