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Rogelio V. Solis / AP Why a Mississippi City Is Just Now Being Forced to Desegregate Its Schools
A federal judge says Cleveland, Mississippi, must finally comply with a historic ruling the U.S. Supreme Court made more than 60 years ago.
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“I would say that Donald Trump’s views on women’s ideal roles are not shared by most people,” —Alice…
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Khalid Al Mousily / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Violence in Iraq, Amtrak and Train Safety, Facebook and Elections
Terrorist attacks hit Baghdad neighborhoods, U.S. transportation officials called for better train technology, the social network wielded considerable power over users’ news consumption, and more.
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Don Ryan / AP The Edge: Surprise! There Are Still More U.S. Primaries
Voters have their say in Oregon and Kentucky.
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Alexandre Meneghini / AP Mexico's President Calls For a Country #SinHomofobia
President Enrique Peña Nieto said Tuesday he would seek to legalize gay marriage nationwide.
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Joe Skipper / Reuters The Fading Meaning of ‘GMO'
The National Academy of Sciences is urging people to focus less on the process and more on the product.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Is the Democratic Primary Really Rigged?
Bernie Sanders supporters are increasingly convinced the election isn’t a fair fight. That's bad news for the Democratic Party.
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Track of the Day: 'Anyhow, I Love You'
Guy Clark, one of the finest songwriters in Texas country history and a Nashville legend, has died. A…
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Larry Downing / Reuters The Long Airport Lines of Summer
As airport passengers face historically long security lines, the Transportation Security Administration says it’s shorthanded.
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AMC The Night Manager: From the BBC With Love
The imported British miniseries is both a dazzling six-part spy story and a James Bond audition tape for its star, Tom Hiddleston.
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Gary Hershorn / Reuters The Evolutionary Power of Loneliness
The pain of isolation may be what motivates people to make friends.
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Phil Noble / Reuters Not Doomed Yet: For Several Hours, the U.K. Glimpses a Coal-Free World
The island nation got none of its power from coal-fired power plants last week.
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Timothy A. Clary / Reuters The Senate's Unanimous Vote to Let 9/11 Victims' Families Sue Saudi Arabia
The bill now goes on to the House, but President Obama has vowed to veto it, citing potential risk to Americans serving overseas.
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'Why Are We So F*****d Up About Money?'
A reader recommends a new podcast from Lindsay Goldwert—a journalist and stand-up comic based in Queens—that’s very similar to…
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Jae C. Hong / AP An Indictment For 20,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled in the Pacific
Investigators looking into the 2015 oil spill near Santa Barbara, California, found the pipeline was cracked and nearly worn through.
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Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters Why American Sanctions on Burma Are Easing
The Southeast Asian country has transitioned to a democracy, but the military is still powerful—and some U.S. sanctions will stay in place.
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Mel Evans / AP Live Coverage of the Oregon and Kentucky Primaries
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face off in the Beaver and Bluegrass states, while West Coast Republicans consider Trump.
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Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty A Trip to Patagonia
A virtual trip to the southern tip of South America, where Getty Images photographers recently captured scenes from across Patagonia
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When a Town Runs Dry
A short documentary on drought-stricken Stratford, California.
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Orbital View: 100,000 Laps Around the Earth
That’s the milestone the International Space Station reached yesterday. To celebrate, the U.S. National Laboratory aboard the ISS posted…
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Doug McLean Art Should Be Uncomfortable
For the writer Mark Haddon, Miles Davis’s seminal jazz album Bitches Brew is a reminder of the beauty and power of challenging works.
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP The Ancient Military Barracks Hidden Under Rome’s Streets
Workers have found ruins dating back to the second century while constructing a new subway line near the Colosseum.
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Congress Takes Aim at Sextortion
Last week, I wrote about a new Brookings report on sextortion, an increasingly common form of blackmail that the authors…
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Norsk Telegrambyra / Reuters Elon Musk Is Sorry Foreign Workers May Have Built His Factory For $5 an Hour
A Slovenian construction worker claims a Tesla subcontractor owes more than 140 foreign workers $2.6 million in neglected pay.
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Joseph Kaczmarek / AP 'Preventable Tragedy': Amtrak 188 and the Case for Positive Train Control
The NTSB concludes that the engineer in a deadly 2015 crash in Philadelphia was distracted by radio traffic, following rocks striking another train.
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Could Facebook Rig the 2016 Election?
The social network has said that it would never try to influence how someone votes, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't.
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Mark D. Smith / USA Today Sports On Describing Black Athletes as ‘Monkeys’
The Oklahoma City center Steven Adams has apologized for calling his black opponents “quick little monkeys.”
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Robb D. Cohen / AP Chance the Rapper and the Lessons of Childhood
The uplifting Coloring Book makes profound use of Millennial nostalgia.
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Andrew Winning / Reuters Getting to Know the World’s Super-Rich
Who are they? Where do they live? And more importantly, where does their wealth come from?
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'With Enough Money Saved, You Can Tell Them All to Piss Off,' Cont'd
That quote is from a previous reader contributor, Lori, but it’s echoed in this monologue from the inimitable John Goodman…