The Sexism of Telling Women to Smile
Last week, my colleague David Frum wrote a post defending a tweet in which he commented on the Democratic nominee’s…
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: The Budget and the Ban
Trump's proposed cuts, his new legal challenges, a populist loss in Europe, and more.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Showing an Interest
The Fed's rate increase, college costs, climate science, and more.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Spin and Sexism
A presidential ouster, Trump's most trusted PR artist, women in tech, and more.
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Yves Herman / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: A Bitter Bill to Swallow
The CBO's health-care report, the rise of Geert Wilders, why facts don't change minds, and more.
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The Ever-Shifting End of Childhood
Here’s how an Atlantic author answered that question in September 1858: Full of anticipations, full of simple…
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What Do You Know ... About Medical Knowledge?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored the social impact of medical misinformation, the historic divide between dentists and…
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Abhishek N. Chinnappa / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Growth and Development
American jobs, driverless cars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Mammoths and Medicine
Paul Ryan’s health pitch, the CIA leak, lab-grown woolly mammoths, and more.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Protest and Prehistory
Women's strike, school funding, paleo plaque, and more.
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The Empress Alexandra and the Freedom to Be Imperfect
Today is International Women’s Day. It also happens to be the 100th anniversary of the start of the revolution that…
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: The More Things Change
The GOP health-care plan, liberal depression, endangered panthers, and more.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Discourse and Discord
Trump’s new travel ban, the GOP’s health-care plan, campus violence, and more.
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Is a Long Life Really Worth It?
That’s the question that reader John Harris has been asking himself lately. He’s not alone: In 1862, one of The…
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What Do You Know ... About Big Sleepers?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored why animals need sleep, the changing shape of American families, Mahershala Ali’s…
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Budget and Blame
An arrest for the JCC bomb threats, America's ideological war, the coming fight in the Senate, and more.
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The Internet’s Impact on Creativity: Your Thoughts
Is the internet helpful or hurtful to human creativity? I posed that question to the reader discussion group known as…
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Sessions and Secrets
The attorney general’s contact with Russia, the GOP’s health-care plan, DNA discoveries, and more.
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What Do You Know ... About Government Repression?
In the March 2017 issue of The Atlantic, our writers explored the path to autocratic government, the future of artificial…
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Speaking of Government
Trump’s speech to Congress, State Department confusion, DeVos’s education, and more.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Potentially Explosive
Trump’s budget plans, anti-protest laws, outer-space volcanoes, and more.
