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The Atlantic

The Minister Of Self-Defense

John Correia, the most popular gun educator on YouTube, wants you to prepare for the worst day of your life.

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September 2018
The Atlantic

The Secrets In Your Inbox

Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance. Bosses are taking an interest.

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September 2018
The Atlantic

The Lie Of Little Women

Subversive secrets lurk in the gap between Louisa May Alcott’s real life and the story she tells.

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September 2018
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood
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These Are The People In Your Neighborhood

Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social-media platform, highlights petty grievances—and proves that Americans have more in common than they think.

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July/August 2018
Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
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Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming

The family battles he described foreshadowed our current national crisis.

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August 2019
The Stock-Buy Back Swindle
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The Stock-Buy Back Swindle

American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs—at the expense of everyone else.

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August 2019
Why The Police Fail To Catch Serial Rapists?
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Why The Police Fail To Catch Serial Rapists?

What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them.

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August 2019
How Walking Became Pedestrian
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How Walking Became Pedestrian

Glorified for its creative benefits, the pastime has become yet another goal-driven pursuit.

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August 2019
The Original Huckster
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The Original Huckster

P.T. Barnum taught us to love spectacle, fake news, and a good hoax. A century and a half later, the show has escaped the tent.

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August 2019
Wait A Minute!
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Wait A Minute!

Instantaneous communication can be destructive.We need to tweak our digital platforms to make time for extra eyes, cooler heads, and second thoughts.

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August 2019
The Metamorphosis
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The Metamorphosis

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.

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August 2019
Raj Chetty's American Dream
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Raj Chetty's American Dream

The economist whose work dispelled the myth of social mobility in the U.S. Has a plan to make it a reality.

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August 2019
The Crisis In Democracy
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The Crisis In Democracy

The national constitution center, in Philadelphia, is a monument to the benefits of pessimism. The center, which is situated across an open expanse from Independence Hall, is a superior educational institution, but, understood correctly, it is also a warning about the fragility of the American experiment.

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October 2018
The Brutal Truth About Climate Change
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The Brutal Truth About Climate Change

William T.Vollmanns latest opus is one of the most honest and fatalisticbooks about global warming yet written.

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October 2018
Nietzsche's Guide To Better Living
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Nietzsche's Guide To Better Living

If philosophy can serve as therapy, its not by offering solace but by jolting the soul.

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October 2018
How AI Could Give Rise To Tyranny
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How AI Could Give Rise To Tyranny

Artificial Intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate power among a small elite if we dont take steps to stop it.

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October 2018
The Personal Cost Of Black Success
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The Personal Cost Of Black Success

Two men chronicle their rise into the meritocratic elite, exposing pernicious myths and brutal realities along the way.

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November 2018
Women Are Angry. Now What?
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Women Are Angry. Now What?

Rebecca Traister Invokes Fury To Unify Women In A Battle Against Men, But Being Mad Can Prove Divisive, Too.

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November 2018
Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome
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Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome

He turned politics into a vicious blood sport, broke Congress, and paved the way for Trumps rise. Now hes reveling in his achievements.

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November 2018
Can The Pentagon Weaponize The Brain?
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Can The Pentagon Weaponize The Brain?

The Pentagons 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 systemor maybe vice versa. Silicon Valley is eating all of this up.

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November 2018
The Atlantic

The Next Populist Revolution

Establishment Democrats believe that poor immigrants and their children will be part of an emerging majority. They could be very wrong.

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September 2018
The Atlantic

How Ice Went Rogue

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy. 

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September 2018
The Atlantic

May It Please the Court

In more than a decade as a trial lawyer, I’ve watched in frustration as male attorneys rely on a range of courtroom tactics that are off-limits to women. Judges and juries reward men for being domineering— and expect women to be deferential. This cultural bias runs deep and won’t be easily overcome. I have the trial transcripts to prove it.

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September 2018
Donald Trump Builds His Autocracy!
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Donald Trump Builds His Autocracy!

Will American democracy survive Trump? And will the midterms matter?

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October 2018
A Warning From Europe
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A Warning From Europe

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.

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October 2018
Losing The Democratic Habit
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Losing The Democratic Habit

Americans once learned self-governance by practicing it constantlyin 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.

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October 2018
Adison Vs. The Mob
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Adison Vs. The Mob

The founders designed a government that would be insulated from the heat of popular sentiment, but they didnt anticipate the unbridled passions of the digital age.Here show the constitutional order can survive.

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October 2018
Measles As Metaphor
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Measles As Metaphor

What the disease’s return tells us about America’s ailing culture.

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August 2019
Carry Me Back
The Atlantic

Carry Me Back

Race, history, and memories of a Virginia girlhood.

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August 2019
The Trouble With Dentistry
The Atlantic

The Trouble With Dentistry

You likely don’t need to go to the dentist every six months. Those microcavities might heal without a filling. And you may want a second opinion before getting that root canal. An inquiry into a profession that’s much less scientific—and far more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you might think.

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May 2019