Meanwhile in America: ‘New Americans’ in the Rust Belt
If you’ve read or heard about Erie, Pennsylvania, since the election, it’s likely to be with framing as “declining Rust…
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What Will Happen to Undocumented Doctors?
Meet the Dreamers who are one executive action away from losing everything.
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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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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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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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America by Air: Powering Homes With Molten Salt
Our collection of power plants for this photo series keeps growing: a nuclear one over Michigan, another one along the…
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What Do You Know ... About Show Business?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored the changing movie industry, the history of stardom, Ireland’s national-park invasion, a…
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Matt Eich A Husband Captures His Wife's World
Photographs of Melissa Eich, a speech pathologist in Charlottesville, Virginia, taken by her husband Matt Eich
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Google Street View Reports of an Active Shooter at a Houston Hospital
Police said so no injuries or evidence of gunfire were found.
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Sage, Ink: Martin Shkreli at Harvard
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What Do You Know ... About Animal Accidents?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored how humans collide with nature, what scientists can learn from genealogy, the…
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Jessica Chou Millennials in the Gig Economy
Photographs of freelancers living in Los Angeles, made by photographer Jessica Chou
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Courtesy of the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room – Charlotte ... ‘Segregation Had to Be Invented’
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
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California Department of Water Resources via Reuters How Did the Oroville Dam Crisis Get So Dire?
Drought, climate change, and aging infrastructure combined to create a looming catastrophe that forced 188,000 Californians to evacuate.
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Ann Sophie Lindström The Equestrians of North Philly
How a riding club counters crime with horses
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What Do You Know ... About Cosmetic Costs?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored women’s war on body hair, the threats to bumblebees’ survival, Americans’ financial…
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When Child Abuse Involves Guns
It’s been a year since we ran this reader series, which included a wide range of first encounters with guns—from…
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What Do You Know ... About Surfing the Web?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored who drives online activity, what’s on the surface of the moon, the…
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The CEOs Revolting Against Trump's Travel Ban
Ford, Tesla, Google, Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, General Electric, and other companies are speaking up about the president’s executive order.
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What Do You Know ... About Flipping Burgers?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored how the McDonald’s founder turned into a villain, China’s rising space program…
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NASA / Reuters How Fast Is the Universe Expanding?
Astronomers have added a new data point in their attempts to answer the cosmic question.
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America by Air: ‘Shadows Can’t Be Caught, but Always Chased!’
Bill Barse has been one of the main contributors to our aerial series, namely with his tours of Appalachia from…
