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America’s Strangest Tourist Destination...

Taking selfies in the cradle of the atom bomb

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This Election Is No <em>West Wing</em> R...

Martin Sheen is doing his very best to pep up stressed-out Democrats.

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The Swing States Are in Good Hands

The places most crucial to the election have leaders who are committed to a fair process.

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Michel Houellebecq Has Some Fresh Predic...

In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.

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<em>West Wing</em> Nostalgia Just Won’t ...

On the campaign trail for Kamala Harris with Martin Sheen

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Ratpocalypse Now

Those rat-proof bins? Not rat-proof after all.

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Cheap Solar Panels Are Changing the Worl...

“This is unstoppable.”

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Trump’s Depravity Will Not Cost Him This...

Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it.

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Solar Power’s Glow-Up

“This is unstoppable.”

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Why Are We Humoring Them?

When Donald Trump and Elon Musk can turn death threats into punch lines, the joke is on the rest of us—and that’s the point.

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The Positions That the Democrats Won’t D...

In trans-rights controversies, conservatives see proof that the left is promoting its own values by fiat.

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Why People Itch and How to Stop It

Scientists are discovering lots of little itch switches.

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Six Political Memoirs Worth Reading

Hackish campaign memoirs shouldn’t indict the entire genre—there are truly excellent books written about power from the inside....

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Why Randy Newman is Least Loved For His ...

The musician’s greatest songs are dramatic, psychologically complex, and often very bleak.

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Hating the Regime, Waiting for War

Iranian dissidents fear that Israeli attacks will strengthen the Islamic Republic.

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The Subtext of All Trump’s Talk About Tr...

For the right, trans issues epitomize bureaucratic fiat.

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ChatGPT Doesn’t Have to Ruin College

The power of a robust honor code—and abundant institutional resources

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Six Books About How Politics Changes Peo...

Hackish campaign memoirs shouldn’t indict the entire genre—there are truly excellent books written about power from the inside....

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<em>The Atlantic</em> Did Not Publish an...

The Atlantic did not publish an article with the headline “Trump Is Literally Hitler.”An image with this fabricated headline is ci...

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The Three Factors That Will Decide the E...

The convergence of three powerful forces will shape next month’s election in places like Charleroi and throughout the Rust Belt.

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The Chronically Online Have Stolen Hallo...

Obscure meme costumes are sucking the joy from the holiday.

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ChatGPT vs the Honor Code

The challenge posed by AI for American colleges and universities is not primarily technological but cultural and economic.

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Is Civility Enough?

What happens when you really get to know someone who is your political opposite.

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How to Win Pennsylvania

By remembering that class, not race, is now the starkest division in American politics

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Why Harris Is Joining Forces With the Ne...

They’re helping her make the case that keeping Donald Trump out of office is not about party politics.

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No One Knows How Big Pumpkins Can Get

A decade ago, the world's heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. Now the 3,000-pound mark is within sight.

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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That...

The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.

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The Dream of a 3,000-Pound Pumpkin

Giant pumpkins somehow just keep getting bigger.

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War Is Coming. Will Our Next President B...

The world stands on the brink of great-power conflict—yet neither candidate has mapped out for American voters how the U.S. can me...

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The Worst Insult I Ever Heard as an Oper...

I’m not sure how to recover from this.

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The U.S. Is Electing a Wartime President

The world stands on the brink of great-power conflict—yet neither candidate has mapped out for American voters how the U.S. can me...

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There’s No Coming Back From <em>Dobbs</e...

No new federal legislation can rewind abortion in America to 2021.

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The Improbable Coalition That Is Harris’...

The battleground state of Michigan reveals the Democrat’s most plausible path to winning the presidency.

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This Influencer Says You Can’t Parent To...

Chelsey Hauge-Zavaleta says parents should avoid punishing their kids and focus on "loving connection" instead. Do her methods wor...

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Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats?

More Black and Latino voters are open to voting for Republicans.

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The Slop Candidate

Donald Trump embraces a working-class fantasy.

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Election Disinformation Is Getting More ...

A conversation with Elaine Godfrey about what makes this moment so ripe for conspiracy theories

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A Moon-Size Hole in Cat Research

Is the waning gibbous driving my cat insane?

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Coke, Twinkies, Skittles, and … Whole-Gr...

What counts as an ultra-processed food can be perplexing and arbitrary.

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The Perverse Consequences of Tuition-Fre...

The latest philanthropic trend, no matter how well intended, might be making health-care inequality worse.

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Is the Moon Driving My Cat Insane?

When the moon hits your cat, makes him sprint through your flat, that’s a scientific mystery.

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The Invasion That Wasn’t

Conspiracy theories in small-town Alabama

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A Dissident Is Built Different

How did Alexei Navalny stand up to a totalitarian regime?

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What Would a Second Trump Administration...

Markets, weapons, and a deal, any deal, are likely to matter more than Israeli-Palestinian peace.

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The Passion of Alexei Navalny

What does it take to stand up to a totalitarian regime?

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