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Who Was Cleopatra's Daughter?
The Atlantic

Who Was Cleopatra's Daughter?

The perils of searching for feminist heroes in antiquity

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June 2023
Burned
The Atlantic

Burned

How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a solar-energy breakthrough swindled Wall Street investors, Warren Buffett, and the U.S. Treasury out of $1 billion

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June 2023
Inside the desperate effort to rescue America's pastime from irrelevance
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Inside the desperate effort to rescue America's pastime from irrelevance

Where in the name of human rain delays is Juan Soto? The stud outfielder is late.

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July - August 2023
CONFESSIONS of a Luxury-Wedding PLANNER - Lies, panic, and ponies
The Atlantic

CONFESSIONS of a Luxury-Wedding PLANNER - Lies, panic, and ponies

Sunday mornings, for wedding planners, are reserved for prayer. Not because it's a particularly pious profession but because that's the day when clients who were married on Saturday figure out if they're happy or not.

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July - August 2023
The Immortal Mel Brooks
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The Immortal Mel Brooks

The 2,000-year-old man turns 97 this summer. I talked with him about fighting in World War II, his life in comedy, and the secret to happiness.

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July - August 2023
IN DEFENSE OF HUMANITY
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IN DEFENSE OF HUMANITY

We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.

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July - August 2023
The Canadian Way of Death
The Atlantic

The Canadian Way of Death

The nation legalized assisted suicide-and exposed the limits of liberalism

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June 2023
Writing in the Ruins
The Atlantic

Writing in the Ruins

The German writer Jenny Erpenbeck cuts through dogma, fractures time, and preserves rubble

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June 2023
Surrender to Steely Dan
The Atlantic

Surrender to Steely Dan

How the insufferably perfectionist duo captured the hearts of a new generation of listeners

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June 2023
Call of the Wild
The Atlantic

Call of the Wild

The enduring appeal of watching human beings attempt to master the Alaskan backcountry

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June 2023
Night at the Vatican
The Atlantic

Night at the Vatican

After the tourists go home, a museum's collection tells its own story

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June 2023
THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE
The Atlantic

THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE

The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backward-sperhaps even out of Crimea for good

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June 2023
American Madness
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American Madness

Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.

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May 2023
The New Anarchy
The Atlantic

The New Anarchy

America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

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April 2023
The Age in Your Head
The Atlantic

The Age in Your Head

I'm 53 years old. I feel 36.

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April 2023
How to Look at a Vermeer
The Atlantic

How to Look at a Vermeer

The artist left behind few clues about his life or intentions, but the paintings themselves teach the viewer new ways to see.

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May 2023
The Poet Facing Down the End of the World
The Atlantic

The Poet Facing Down the End of the World

Jorie Graham has a message for us

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May 2023
The Pornography Paradox
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The Pornography Paradox

Reformers fear that ever more outré sites are warping users' desires. But transgression has always been part of the appeal.

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May 2023
How Taylor Swift Infiltrated Dude Rock
The Atlantic

How Taylor Swift Infiltrated Dude Rock

On the unlikeliest, most fruitful collaboration in contemporary music

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May 2023
The MAGIC KINGDOM of RON DESANTIS
The Atlantic

The MAGIC KINGDOM of RON DESANTIS

My very British romp through America's weirdest state

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May 2023
IS HOLOCAUST EDUCATION MAKING ANTI-SEMITISM WORSE?
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IS HOLOCAUST EDUCATION MAKING ANTI-SEMITISM WORSE?

Using dead Jews as symbols isn't helping living ones.

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May 2023
The Ice-Cream Conspiracy
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The Ice-Cream Conspiracy

STUDIES SHOW A MYSTERIOUS HEALTH BENEFIT TO ICE CREAM. SCIENTISTS DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

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May 2023
America's Future is at Sea
The Atlantic

America's Future is at Sea

The nation is ceding the seas to its enemies. It's not too late to avoid catastrophe.

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April 2023
"Two of Every Race"
The Atlantic

"Two of Every Race"

A family's impossible quest to erase prejudice through transracial adoption

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April 2023
"We Belong Here"
The Atlantic

"We Belong Here"

In 1991, the family landed at a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia. There, Al-Badry got his first camera, a Pentax K1000.

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April 2023
We're Already in the Metaverse
The Atlantic

We're Already in the Metaverse

Reality is blurred. Boredom is intolerable. And everything is entertainment.

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March 2023
A New Way to Read Gatsby
The Atlantic

A New Way to Read Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald never explicitly states Jay Gatsby's race.

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March 2023
Second Life
The Atlantic

Second Life

During Donnie's first week in the mixed unit (drugs and crazy), a girl threw a TV set out the window because she thought it was criticizing her. Donnie walked to the window to look. \"Probably was,\" he mumbled.

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April 2023
Love Annihilated
The Atlantic

Love Annihilated

The Irish writer Sebastian Barry's great subject

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April 2023
The Scandalous, Clueless, Irresistible Oscars
The Atlantic

The Scandalous, Clueless, Irresistible Oscars

How the Academy holds on to its prestige despite a history of embarrassment

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April 2023