Russell Berman keeps track of Trump’s cabinet picks so you don’t have to in The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates interviews President Obama for the Jan/Feb 2017 issue: My President Was Black.
Read Ta-Nehisi Coates on the meaning and (unmaking) of Obama’s White House in the Jan/Feb 2017 cover story, My President Was Black.
In Jews and the Social Construction of Race, Emma Green responds to the wave of feedback that she received on her piece titled “Are Jews White?.” By defending the headline, Green challenges readers to look at the historical experiences of American Jews as a way to critique the exclusive nature of “whiteness.” Here is the story and the response.
How will Trump use science to further his political agenda? asks Sarah Zhang.
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Here’s more from Yoni Appelbaum’s conversation with a longtime media and advertising executive about how the president-elect sold himself to the public.
Sage, Ink: Wite-(Supremacy)-Out is part of an ongoing collection of cartoons by Sage Stossel in The Atlantic. See the entire collection here.
Sage, Ink: Trumpsgiving is part of an ongoing collection of cartoons by Sage Stossel, a contributing editor for The Atlantic.
In the December 2016 issue, Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the legendary and controversial statesman Henry Kissinger. For more lessons from Kissinger on Putin, Obama, and Trump, read the story here.
In The 2016 Presidential Election: A Devil’s Glossary David Graham channels the spirit of Ambrose Bierce, the great Ohio-born writer who published the first edition of what is now known as The Devil’s Dictionary, a series of sardonic definitions of words.
For a comprehensive list of words used in the 2016 election, read David Graham’s piece here.
“Rather than sticking with turgid socialist clichés, in 1958 East German...
Listen to MIke D yell at an ill-informed radio producer because sometimes it’s really fun to be wrong: http://bit.ly/UralXA
–Sean, Sideshow
From Cats Dressed as People, 100 Years Ago, one of 15 photos. The Aviator. (Harry Whittier Frees/Library of Congress)
Memento Mori by Henrik Hondius (1626)
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Part 1
Some claim that evolution is just a theory, as if it were merely an opinion.
MESSRS. MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT AND PRONGS…