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EDITOR'S NOTE
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It’s part of our contemporary condition to feel simultaneously blessed and cursed by technology.
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FEATURES
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To environmentalists, clean coal is an insulting oxymoron. But because coal so dominates the world economy, any meaningful effort to arrest climate change will require using dirty coal in
more-sustainable ways. Quiet collaboration between American
and Chinese businesses and scientists is pointing the way.
VIDEO: James Fallows flies his plane over West Virginia coal country and discusses the coming transformation.
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The physicist Freeman Dyson has reshaped thinking
in fields from math to astrophysics to medicine. Yet he is also one of the world's foremost global-warming skeptics. How could someone as smart as Dyson be so wrong about the environment?
A cautionary tale about science and faith.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Thirty years of Atlantic articles on climate change, clean tech, and Freeman Dyson.
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In Pakistan, the CIA's remote-controlled bombing campaign heats up.
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Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann
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Shockingly error-prone and brutally expensive, our federally funded system of dialysis care is failing. A year-long investigation reveals why—and what may lie ahead for health-care reform.
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Robin Fields/ProPublica
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A new ranking shows that even privileged kids in our best public-school systems do poorly compared with their peers in other countries.
MULTIMEDIA: An interactive graphic rates the U.S. education system against the rest of the world.
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U.S. universities are still on top, but Asia is rising.
POLL: The Atlantic asked 30 university and college presidents about tenure, student preparedness, and other hot issues.
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DISPATCHES
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With the 2016 Olympics looming, the city’s embattled police invade the favelas.
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An antidiscrimination icon finds a new frontier in trash culture.
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Getting supplies to Afghanistan may be worth cozying up to Uzbekistan—for now.
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How to spin pharmaceutical research
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How barcodes and touch screens are resuscitating a casket factory
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Recalling the splendid isolation of travel by freighter
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Online matchmaking is getting better at telling us whom we ought to like—and that's not good.
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BOOKS
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The Atlantic's literary and national editor selects the best in a crowded field.
RUNNERS UP: See 15 additional picks by The Atlantic’s books editor
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How to survive—and even thrive—in the new age of austerity
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Bill Bryson brings it all back home; England's gilded monuments; and more
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COLUMNS
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Information technology is on the brink of revolutionizing health care— if physicians will only let it.
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Miscast in the age of viral humor, the late-night star remains eternally freaky—and oddly reassuring.
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POETRY
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GALLERY
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