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She had her whole future mapped out when she met Ted Cruz, starting with her dream job in Washington. This is the story of what came after.
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.
What the canonization of Óscar Romero says about the Catholic Church and its embattled leader
The Pentagon’s R&D arm, DARPA, gave us drones and the internet. Now the agency has a new mission: to fold computers into the brain and nervous system—or maybe vice versa. Silicon Valley is eating all of this up.
A boisterous new age of global children’s entertainment has arrived —and it’s not at all what we adults were expecting.
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.
The iconoclastic author, whose six-volume My Struggle is now complete in English, has lost his faith in radical self-exposure. What happened?
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.
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.
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.
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.
A young generation of artists is winning prizes, acclaim, and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways.
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.
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.
Audio version of "His Brother's Keeper". In America’s deadliest big city, the task of announcing each new murder falls to police spokesman T. J. Smith. One year ago, he confronted a killing like no other. Original story: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/baltimore-murder-rate-hits-home/563600/
Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
After a dark history in which transgender kids were routinely ignored, “repaired,” or persecuted, a new protocol of social and physical transition has emerged. For teens who experience persistent gender dysphoria, this protocol can provide profound relief from suffering. For some kids, however, gender dysphoria is temporary. And the effects of transitioning can be permanent.
Here’s one way to fight ISIS: Send one of the most advanced and expensive military aircraft in the U.S. arsenal from a base in Missouri to drop GPS-guided 500-pound bombs on a group of 70 ragtag fighters sleeping in the Libyan desert. (Spoiler alert: They died.)"
The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risk of pandemics continues to multiply. Much worse is coming. Is Donald Trump ready?
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
Stephen Miller once tormented liberals at Duke. Now the president’s speechwriter and immigration enforcer is deploying the art of provocation from the White House.
The longtime producer has two shows about women’s pain and rage debuting this summer—and the timing couldn’t be better.
Notes from a journey through a country that’s steadily becoming a better version of itself, outside the baleful gaze of the national media.
Floyd Landis, a former teammate of the cyclist’s, just won more than $1 million in a legal case against Armstrong. Here are his thoughts on the suit, cycling, and his onetime rival.
American service members are willing to sacrifice their lives for one another and for their country. In return, they ask only for a mission that is moral and achievable. After nearly 17 years of war, with plenty of patriotic displays but little public debate about why we’re fighting, morale is perilously low.
The discovery of more than 1,500 artworks in a flat in Munich serves as an inconvenient reminder of one of the unresolved wrongs of the Third Reich.
The strange, cosmic reason our evolutionary path will look ever luckier the longer we survive.
Who can stay and who must go? Inside Germany’s high-stakes effort to sort people fleeing death from opportunists and pretenders.
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t the transformational tragedy of a successful movement, as children are taught. It was the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.
A prominent evangelical writer explains how his movement lost its way and fell hard for Donald Trump.
For a decade, zookeepers have known that something strange was stopping the giant animals’ hearts—now they’re beginning to trace the culprit to their guts.
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.
Hear the poet Lucie Brock-Broido read Emily Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You” (Poem 640) as part of the Atlantic Unbound’s “Soundings” series from 1999.
Hear the poet Steven Cramer read Emily Dickinson's “I cannot live with You” (Poem 640) as part of the Atlantic Unbound's "Soundings" series from 1999.
Hear the poet Mary Jo Salter read Emily Dickinson's “I cannot live with You” (Poem 640) as part of the Atlantic Unbound's "Soundings" series from 1999.
He posed as a war hero, a surgeon, an investment banker. His girlfriends thought he was too good to be true—and he was. When police failed to stop him, his victims banded together to take him down.
A Princeton glaciologist says a set of mega-engineering projects may be able to stabilize the world’s most dangerous glaciers.
In a stressful, data-driven era, many young people find comfort and insight in the zodiac—even if they don’t exactly believe in it.
How the United States lost the faith of its citizens-and what it can do to win them back
Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.
In 2050 the world population will be 10 billion. Can everyone eat without destroying the Earth?
An offer of dialogue from the North could be an effort to split the U.S.-South Korea alliance.
A two-year investigation identifies one of the very few Americans in the Islamic State’s upper ranks— and sheds light on the dynamics of radicalization.
Why? Because there's very little known about the thousands of victims who survive deadly shootings.
The story of the Russian mob in Spain—and the detectives who spent years trying to bring them down.
An overconfident teen felt that he was above math class—until he needed his teacher’s help.
Benjamine Spencer is serving a life sentence for a violent crime he insists he didn't commit. But he lacks biological evidence—and old-fashioned detective work may not be enough to clear his name.
Will the vice president—and the religious right—be rewarded for their embrace of Donald Trump?
We talked to bestselling author John Green about mental illness and his new book—our first official Masthead book club selection—Turtles All The Way Down.
Trump’s supporters backed a time-honored American political tradition, disavowing racism while promising to enact a broad agenda of discrimination.
How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?
Ismael Jimenez inspired his student to think more deeply—and talk more openly—about identity, and she inspired him to become a better, more patient, teacher.
Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
Jessica Carlson wasn’t sure what to do with an angry student who dismissed her sunny exterior—but reconnecting years later revealed that they’d each been hiding a similar secret.
The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?
Kathleen Whalen thought she’d mastered managing her chaotic classroom—until she met a student who simply wouldn’t talk.
While reading through Kurt Vonnegut’s papers in the Lilly Library, at Indiana University, as they worked on the first comprehensive edition of his short fiction, Vonnegut’s friend Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz, a scholar of Vonnegut’s work, came across five previously unpublished stories. Klinkowitz dates “The Drone King,” one of those five, to the early 1950s, when Vonnegut hadn’t yet written a novel and was only beginning to publish short fiction. Complete Stories will be published this month by Seven Stories Press.
What the secretive Silicon Valley lab can teach America about the science of breakthroughs and the lost art of invention
Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his fraternity brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.
How did Josh Tetrick’s vegan-mayonnaise company become a Silicon Valley darling—and what is he really selling?
Black Americans are far less likely than their white peers to successfully erase their debts in court—and a network of attorneys profits as a result.
He disdains the rule of law. He’s trampling norms of presidential behavior. And he’s bringing vital institutions down with him.
Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a bigger margin than almost anywhere else in the world. A case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.
Matt Weiss was the “fun teacher,” but one of his most determined students came to school in search of a more serious learning experience.
This is the eighth installment in an audio series called What My Students Taught Me. Each episode features a teacher reflecting on a particularly challenging student, whenever possible in counterpoint with the student’s version of the same events.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to set students up for success after graduation. But at public schools, even the best ideas often have unintended consequences.
Text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-controversy-behind-chicagos-diploma-mandate/539562/?utm_source=soundcloud
“The question is not merely, How shall the methods of Congress be clarified and its ways made purposeful and responsible? There is this greater question at stake: How shall the essential arrangements of the Constitution be preserved?”
From "How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency," by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Edited audio courtesy of the Vietnam Film Project/Florentine Films, PBS, and the Miller Center (https://millercenter.org/). Read the full article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-americans-lost-faith-in-the-presidency/537897/.
From "How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency," by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Edited audio courtesy of the Vietnam Film Project/Florentine Films, PBS, and the Miller Center (https://millercenter.org/). Read the full article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-americans-lost-faith-in-the-presidency/537897/.
Assertions about how trauma physiologically impedes the ability to resist or coherently remember assault have greatly undermined defense against assault allegations. But science offers little support for these claims.
This is the second story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic. Listen to the first installment here: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy-the-atlantic-emily-yoffe
At many schools, the rules intended to protect victims of sexual assault mean students have lost their right to due process—and an accusation of wrongdoing can derail a person’s entire college education.
This is the first story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic. Listen to the second installment here: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/the-bad-science-behind-campus-response-to-sexual-assault-the-atlantic-emily-yoffe "
When DNA evidence exonerated two men convicted in a 1987 murder, one took his chances on a retrial to overturn his conviction. The other accepted a special deal from prosecutors and left prison immediately—as a convicted murderer.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/1857/11/what-does-an-innocent-man-have-to-do-to-go-free-plead-guilty/539001/
Donald Trump’s presidency is predicated nearly entirely on the negation of a black president. and the constituencies he has activated are not going away.
New Orleans educator Michael Ricks reflects on a charismatic student he lost to violence.
An exclusive look at how Alphabet understands its most ambitious artificial intelligence project
"No republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them."
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It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
From "How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency," by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Edited audio courtesy of the Vietnam Film Project/Florentine Films, PBS, and the Miller Center (https://millercenter.org/). Read the full article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-americans-lost-faith-in-the-presidency/537897/.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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For most of its history, the United States relied on the trial system to administer criminal justice. Not anymore. We live in the age of the plea bargain—and millions of Americans are suffering the consequences.
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Researchers have long tried to understand why certain women cut down other women at work. Their findings suggest that it has less to do with gender than with conditions in the workplace.
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.
A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.
At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, lived a teenage dream—then she went to jail for it.
I've tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation's most common mental illness.
As beloved as Shakespeare, she shaped a vision of personal flourishing that still feels thoroughly modern.
HBO’s latest web-series acquisition eschews Brooklyn entitlement for a queer, multiracial, multiethnic arts landscape in Chicago. Welcome to Fatimah Asghar and Sam Bailey’s world.
Text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/1857/11/all-the-brown-girls-on-tv/530184/
The common lung disease debilitates millions of Americans and costs the country billions of dollars, but some very new—and very old—methods are emerging in fighting it.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/1857/11/how-to-beat-asthma/532542/
“Super-users” with complex medical needs make up a small fraction of U.S. patients, but they account for half of the nation’s overall health-care spending. Now, innovative efforts are providing better care at lower costs.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/06/fixing-the-5-percent/532077/
In Appalachia, a primary-care clinic offers quick bursts of psychotherapy on the spot.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/1857/11/therapy-for-everybody/531120/
Is the current participatory-art craze about seeking profound experiences—or posting selfies?
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/yayoi-kusamas-existential-circus/528669/
Adam Roberts is searching the world's dirtiest places for new antibiotics, in the hopes of staving off the growing threat of drug resistance.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/could-the-answer-to-our-most-urgent-health-crisis-be-found-on-a-toilet-seat/528687/
Barack Obama's victories obscured failure at every other political level. The party's choices have been disastrous. If Democrats care about winning, they need to learn how to appeal to the white working class.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/whats-wrong-with-the-democrats/528696/
In the past decade, liberals have emphasized diversity over unity, and avoided inconvenient truths about immigration. It's time to address Americans' yearning for social cohesion.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-democrats-immigration-mistake/528678/
Here's how to deal with North Korea. It's not going to be pretty.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-worst-problem-on-earth/528717/
For more than a decade, Tom Insel was the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which made him one of the most influential psychiatrists in the world. But, frustrated by psychiatry’s inability to effectively help people suffering from mental illness, he began to question some of the basic premises of his field. So he left for Silicon Valley, where he’s trying to use smartphones to reduce the world’s mental anguish.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-smartphone-psychiatrist/528726/
In upstate New York, both workers—and the farmers who employ them—fear more aggressive immigration enforcement.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/can-americas-farms-survive-the-threat-of-deportations/529008/
Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/blockchain-of-command/528543/
When the FBI discovered a network of Bosian-Americans giving support to terrorists, they also discovered Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a U.S. citizen and a battalion commander in Syria.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/1857/11/first-he-became-an-americanthen-he-joined-isis/527622/
The story of a decades-long lead-poisoning lawsuit in New Orleans illustrates how the toxin destroys black families and communities alike. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-poisoned-generation/527229/
How Alan Eustace, a Google engineer on the edge of retirement, broke the world record for high-altitude jumping.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/26-miles-above-earth/524508/
The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-your-child-is-a-psychopath/524502/
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
Alex Tizon struggled to write about Lola, the woman who helped raise him. He was 11 before he realized she was his family’s slave.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/a-reporters-story/524538/
In order to survive, Gallaudet University has to blend a diverse student body from very different backgrounds: deaf culture and hearing culture. Can football players show the school how?
Full text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/05/americas-deaf-team-tackles-identity-politics/525945/
Trainings and workshops geared toward eliminating people’s hidden prejudices are all the rage—but most don’t work. Now the psychologist who made the case for "implicit bias" wants to cure it. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/1857/11/unconscious-bias-discrimination-end/525405/
In three short months, Jaelyn Young and Muhammad Dakhlalla found themselves at the center of America’s debate over radicalization. Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/mississippi-young-dakhlalla/524751/
The controversial cityhood movement recently created an unlikely political alliance and redrew the lines of metro Atlanta. Meet the city’s newest neighbors.
Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/here-comes-the-neighborhood/523884/
The state’s GOP leadership tried to make the state more business-friendly. Now residents are saying their water isn’t safe to drink.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/north-carolina-a-preview-of-life-under-a-trump-weakened-epa/521211/
Inside Walmart’s curious, possibly ingenious effort to get customers to build up their savings accounts by exploiting the power of lotteries
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-to-trick-people-into-saving-money/521421/
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the exurbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are yielding to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from you.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-online-shopping-makes-suckers-of-us-all/521448/
How Late-Night Comedy Alienated Conservatives, Made Liberals Smug, and Fueled the Rise of Trump. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-late-night-comedy-alienated-conservatives-made-liberals-smug-and-fueled-the-rise-of-trump/521472/
Comedy and tragedy in an age of political chaos
Read full text here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/alec-baldwin-gets-under-trumps-skin/521433/
By antagonizing Mexico, Donald Trump has made the classic bully’s error: He has underestimated his victim. On issues ranging from counterterrorism to China, the Mexican response could be devastating. Read full text here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/mexicos-revenge/521451/
The United States periodically debates whether to do more or less abroad. Trump won by straddling the divide and promising both. But he can’t possibly deliver. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/the-brilliant-incoherence-of-trumps-foreign-policy/521430/
Michael Anton actively courts controversy with his extreme views. But how much influence does he have in the White House?
The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. Read the full text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/aristotle-computer/518697/
The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/this-article-wont-change-your-mind/519093/
Big Data has revolutionized everything from sports to politics to education. It could revolutionize therapy, too—if only therapists would stop ignoring it. Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/what-your-therapist-doesnt-know/517797/
Will the truth ever catch up with Trump’s most skilled spinmeister? Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/kellyannes-alternative-universe/517821/
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/
How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal. Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/making-athens-great-again/517791/
In Siberia, a plan is under way to repopulate the grasslands with ancient grazers, including, in the near future, genetically engineered woolly mammoths. Much more than an experiment in biodiversity, this is a radical scheme to slow one of the most dangerous contributors to global warming—before it’s too late. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleistocene-park/517779/
Years after research contradicts common practices, patients continue to demand them and doctors continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatment.
David Frum discusses his recent cover story with Scott Stossel at an AtlanticLIVE event at Sixth & I. More on the live event here: https://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/a-conversation-with-david-frum/2017/
Thomas Lux reads his poem “Virgule,” published in the January 1992 issue of _The Atlantic_.
Fox News’s former star has downplayed her full role in an ugly election. Full text published here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/can-megyn-kelly-escape-her-past/513842/
A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country. Full text published here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/americas-great-divergence/514784/
The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. If Congress is quiescent and the public listless, Donald Trump can set the country down a path toward illiberalism, institutional subversion, and endemic graft. Full Text can be found here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/
Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks. Full text published here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-franklin-leonard-created-the-hollywood-list-everyone-wants-to-be-on/513830
If the airport’s experimental team succeeds, every critical infrastructure site in the world might soon have its own in-house intel operation. Read the text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/threat-center/510644/
As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration. With an introduction by author Adrienne LaFrance. Full text published here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/the-search-for-lost-knowledge/506879/
Who killed Alexander Perepilichny? An audio version of the Article that was originally published in the January/February 2017 issue of The Atlantic. See the full text here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/the-poison-flower/508736/
The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States? Full text of article is here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/chinas-great-leap-backward/505817/
Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has. Text version is published here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/
Listen to an audio version of The Atlantic Magazine's January/February 2017 cover story by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- My President Was Black. See the original full text article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/