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The proposed health-care bill has a different name for penalizing uninsured people.
The proposed health-care bill has a different name for penalizing uninsured people.
Though most old and sick people will be worse off under the GOP bill, it might be a boon—real or perceived—for people earning just above the Obamacare subsidy cutoff.
What’s in the House Republicans’ new plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act?
The new GOP proposal drew immediate criticism from lawmakers who argued it doesn’t go far enough in erasing the Affordable Care Act.
The Democratic Party has lost power at the national level and in state legislatures. Even so, Ruy Teixeira argues that liberals should feel hopeful about the future.
The president’s attacks on his predecessor may be intended to discredit the results of any inquiry into his 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russian officials.
An excerpt from a feature documentary on LGBTQ refugees advocating for better representation and resettlement
Indulging the president, top Republicans say they’ll look into his charge against Obama, but it won’t substantially alter their probe into Russian meddling in the election.
The Trump administration hasn’t even faced a major foreign-policy challenge yet.
With its latest leak, the site is daring reporters to go on a scavenger hunt for scoops.
The event has around 21 stated goals.
For decades, the United States has welcomed and benefitted from international scholars—but President Trump's travel ban puts that legacy at risk.
You've probably heard about your gut bacteria—now get to know your gut archaea.
The show’s seasonal The Women Tell All special could be read as a cocktail-dress-clad invocation of current events.
The psychological roots of liberals’ Trump depression—and what comes next.
Since 1857, The Atlantic has been challenging established answers with tough questions. Here, Michael K. Williams wrestles with one of his own: Is he being typecast?
Anxiety and listless days as a foreign-policy bureaucracy confronts the possibility of radical change
Florida has already pulled panthers back from the brink of extinction—but to keep them alive, people will have to be comfortable with one showing up on their back porch.
A documentary about three of the 13 million unregistered people born outside the nation’s former one-child policy
In an animated interview, the scientist describes the importance of taking chances.
A documentary filmed over the course of 20 years tells the story of a disenfranchised community pushed out of their homes.
Director Ezra Edelman on how the football player’s commercial success became a beacon for African Americans
Philip Carlson was the agent who signed Philip Seymour Hoffman and Claire Danes. In a short film, he describes his love for the industry.
A colorful short film follows a troupe of young people from London as they get ready for the festival.
A new executive order issued on Monday tightens the scope of the controversial policy, excluding those who already hold valid visas.
The Supreme Court has sent the transgender student’s case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals following a new federal guidance letter on schools and bathrooms.
Professors and students—many of whom emphatically disagree with Charles Murray—are concerned about attacks on his right to speak on their campus.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of illegal raids and deportations that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Are we on the verge of making the same mistakes again?
Liberals must defend the right of conservative students to invite speakers of their choice, even if they find their views abhorrent.
The long-awaited Republican alternative to Obamacare is due out this week, but the scramble for votes has already begun.
Attempts to delegitimize Barack Obama are a classic page in the Trump playbook.
A new book by Tyler Cowen argues that when it comes to innovation and dynamism, the country is all talk.
David Weil, an Obama appointee who headed up DOL's wage-and-hour division, reflects on the previous administration and assesses the early days of current one.
After interviews with 200 senior business executives, Hal Gregersen of MIT found that one of the virtues of good leadership is listening properly.
Declines in manufacturing employment are shaping the structure of the American family.
A consultant whose firm helps businesses curry favor with the Chinese government has purchased a unit in the president's New York building.
The pursuit of efficiency led to plant closures in a small North Carolina town, illustrating how what’s supposedly good for consumers can often be bad for a community.
The retailer is having a tough time translating its trendiness and in-store experience to digital consumers.
Tell us your birthday, and we’ll show you how the world has changed since you were born.
You’ve already lived through enough to fill history books. Consider this a sneak preview of what those books might say.
Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.
It’s often just a fancy name for a computer program.
Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian hacking inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.
In digital environments, the right to refuse service can be made invisible. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
At the country’s annual concrete expo, the machines are big and the future is uncertain.
Some drones are programmed to avoid restricted airspace—but it’s not hard to ignore the limits and fly there anyway.
The far-right politician is hoping to ride the populist momentum in the Dutch elections.
How to challenge Islam while defending its adherents
Their style is less Richard Dawkins, more Christian missionary.
This week’s election could threaten a long-standing, uneasy peace
It’s not just the GOP. Political dominance has a way of sowing discord among those who hold it.
Seven years after abolishing mandatory military service, the country is now responding to “the security change in our neighborhood.”
A new CDC report begins to quantify the devastating effects the virus has on children.
In the battle against antibiotic resistance, salt might be a simple but effective weapon.
The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”
The prevalence of unpaid medical bills varies widely by state, but it affects the South disproportionately.
It’s believed that people on the spectrum don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs. New evidence suggests they do.
Choosing skimpier plans may work out for the very healthy or very lucky. Others would be stuck with large, unexpected bills.
There’s a psychological reason that people like to tweet pictures of cute animals with their political opinions.
The outcome will shape the planet’s climate for generations.
Three researchers describe their findings in NASA’s study of identical twin brothers, one in space and one on Earth.
The region’s ecology is a product of 8,000 years of indigenous agriculture.
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
“We should be very thankful to those unnamed prisoners who saved those carcasses.”
They get less than any other animal, which leaves a jumbo-sized hole in theories about why animals snooze at all.
About two weeks ago, Iraqi government troops began to push into the western half of ISIS-occupied Mosul, after securing the eastern side.
Dissecting a sentence from Zadie Smith’s story “The Embassy of Cambodia,” Jonathan Lee questions his own myopia as a novelist, and wonders how authors can be more engaged with the world around them.
The musician and executive producer of the WGN historical drama discusses the contemporary relevance of telling marginalized stories.
A new retrospective looks at a group of young photographers who infiltrated academic slide libraries with radical images of a changing city.
The show feels less urgent whenever it presents members of the Trump administration as brainless simpletons.
Julianne Pachico’s remarkably inventive debut navigates what it means to grow up wealthy amid the reality of conflict in Colombia.
Kingsley Amis’s 1976 alternate-history masterpiece The Alteration is an overlooked—but timely—novel about the dangers of authoritarianism.
Jordan Peele’s fantastic film relies heavily on the sense of sight to amplify its racial horror.
At Central Michigan University, a group of college students from across the political spectrum meets every week to talk through their differences.
The best recent writing about school
For one, he will reportedly slash dollars from AmeriCorps.
Calvin College is no fundamentalist Christian school.
Strong progress has been made to integrate students with disabilities into general-education classrooms. Educator instruction hasn’t kept up.
Racial diversity is rising in America’s suburban public schools, and many institutions are struggling to provide necessary resources.
The new documentary Teacher of the Year pushes against Hollywood’s hack-or-hero portrayals of the profession.
“These works do not belong only to Arabs, Muslims or Palestinians. They are a heritage for everyone in the world.”
The images were posted in “Marines United,” a 30,000-member Facebook group for male-only active Marines and veterans.
Nearly two-dozen Jewish community centers and day schools in nearly a dozen states received bomb threats.
Peak bloom has typically fallen around early April.
This week, our “Americans at Work” photo essay features photographs of Melissa Eich, a speech pathologist in Charlottesville, Virginia, taken by her husband Matt Eich.
Officials say it's the worst flood to hit Silicon Valley in nearly a decade.
The U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, overturns a death-penalty sentence after an expert witness testified the defendant was more likely to commit future crimes because he is black.
This week, our “Americans at Work” photo essay features photographs of millennial freelancers living in Los Angeles made by photographer Jessica Chou.
Some people are taking steps now to prepare for a life without death.
In an animated interview, the author explains the problem with stereotypes.
They have options.
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