A Tale of Two Betsy DeVoses
The generous Grand Rapids resident and the tone-deaf Trump official
The generous Grand Rapids resident and the tone-deaf Trump official
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The Nobel laureate Angus Deaton discusses extreme poverty, opioid addiction, Trump voters, robots, and rent-seeking.
More than a decade ago, Liberia made history. A new biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounts how.
On Wednesday, the organizers of the Women’s March encouraged participation in the “A Day Without a Woman” strike.
A 20-minute film takes us to Sevnica, Slovenia, now preparing for a tourism boom thanks to the 2016 election.
The president has energized his own supporters, and his attacks on established institutions have triggered a systemic immune response in the body politic.
L.A. Kauffman, a historian of radical protest in America, fits the ‘Day Without a Woman’ into history.
The Knesset passed a law that would deny entry to some foreign activists who support boycotting the Jewish state.
Some ate woolly rhinos; some were vegetarians.
The Kansas Supreme Court ordered the state to confront the inequality of its public-school funding.
Ninety-two percent of citizen petitions filed against generics come from brand-name drug companies.
Olivier Assayas’s new film stars Kristen Stewart as a grief-stricken Parisian fashionista who moonlights as a medium.
In yet another political fight over abortion, Republicans are divided over a provision in the new House bill that blocks funding for the women’s healthcare provider.
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 coexisting with the big cats.
In a short film, 4-year-old Almas and 10-year-old Mustafa explain what it was like to leave Iraq for Oregon.
An excerpt from a feature documentary on LGBTQ refugees advocating for better representation and resettlement
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
A black medical student’s critique of selective colleges.
Why the immigration authorities ID search of a domestic flight at JFK is on weak legal ground.
It’s not clear precisely what led to the cancellation of an event in Toronto, Canada, featuring the Gold Star father known for his criticism of Donald Trump.
The House GOP looks to the president after a rocky debut for its long-awaited alternative to Obamacare.
President Trump has ordered agencies to report “acts of gender-based violence against women … by foreign nationals." Advocates and mental-health practitioners are skeptical.
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.
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 president’s business partners in the capital city of Baku have ties to corruption not only there but in Iran as well.
Inbox maintenance was taking up a lot of Dan Ariely’s time, so he decided to study it as he would anything else.
The bill wipes away Obamacare’s taxes, which fell most heavily on those earning $250,000 and up.
Do lucrative deals with advertisers have to come at the expense of users’ civil rights?
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.
Declines in manufacturing employment are shaping the structure of the American family.
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.
With its latest leak, the site is daring reporters to go on a scavenger hunt for scoops.
Descartes Labs lets you point-and-hop between features in China and the United States.
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.
Trump’s new executive order preserves the central problems of the old one.
The Trump administration hasn’t even faced a major foreign-policy challenge yet.
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.
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.
The proposed health-care bill has a different name for penalizing uninsured people.
The psychological roots of liberals’ Trump depression—and what comes next.
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.”
Exploring the galaxy will only give our problems more room in which to expand.
Even before they grew strong legs, their eyes surged in size.
The event has around 21 stated goals.
You've probably heard about your gut bacteria—now get to know your gut archaea.
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.
For International Women’s Day 2017, Reuters photographers around the world sought out women from many different backgrounds and cultures, and created portraits of them on the job.
Mohsin Hamid’s striking, lyrical new novel explores how lives can be upended in the blink of an eye.
Dissecting a sentence from 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 show’s current Donald Trump impressionist is signaling his imminent departure, and there doesn’t seem to be a backup plan.
Joan Didion’s South and West: From a Notebook is a 1970s-era artifact that has found its proper home in the anxious world of 2017.
The composer Ramin Djawadi leads a concert tour that’s less a musical showcase than a rewind through the HBO drama’s six seasons.
The show’s seasonal The Women Tell All special could be read as a cocktail-dress-clad invocation of current events.
The musician and executive producer of the WGN historical drama discusses the contemporary relevance of telling marginalized stories.
In South Africa, student anger over tuition costs and access has bubbled over—and some observers say the tumult is a harbinger of worldwide unrest.
What happened at Middlebury last week marks a shift in campus activism.
For decades, the United States has welcomed and benefitted from international scholars—but President Trump's travel ban puts that legacy at risk.
At Central Michigan University, a group of college students from across the political spectrum meets every week to talk through their differences.
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For one, he will reportedly slash dollars from AmeriCorps.
Calvin College is no fundamentalist Christian school.
“In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Is it on the verge of doing so again?”
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.
A colorful short film follows a troupe of young people from London as they get ready for the festival.
Philip Carlson was the agent who signed Philip Seymour Hoffman and Claire Danes. In a short film, he describes his love for the industry.
Iraqi forces are on the verge of a mighty victory.
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