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“Hopefully they are vegetarians and have gotten beyond the point of eating each other,” —Philip Lubin, a physics…
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Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Flight 804's Fate, Protests in Baghdad, India's Heat
Wreckage is found from the missing EgyptAir airliner, demonstrators storm the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone, record temperatures kill hundreds on the Indian subcontinent, and more.
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The Big Stories This Week: Trump Psychology, the Worst Congress Ever, and More
“A Psychological Portrait of the Man” What drives the Donald? Our latest magazine cover story offers a look…
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Jim Bourg / Reuters A Veto for Oklahoma's Quixotic Abortion Bill
Governor Mary Fallin rejected a bill Friday that would have sent doctors who perform the procedure to prison.
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Welcome Navy Fallows!
And then there were four! Please welcome young Navy Bennett Fallows, who was born late last night, May 19, in…
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Egyptian Defense Ministry / AP The Search for EgyptAir Flight 804
The Egyptian military says parts of the plane’s wreckage have been found in the Mediterranean.
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The Controversial Business of Hustling Recyclables in West Oakland
In the documentary Dogtown Redemption, a surprising number of people make their living off California’s vast rivers of trash.
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Fernando Vergara / AP The Edge: Zika Is Now Even More Terrifying
The CDC reported that nearly 300 pregnant women in the U.S. and its territories have the disease.
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The Spectrum of Down Syndrome
Following my callout for stories from expectant parents confronting a Down Syndrome diagnosis, a reader steps forward: …
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Damian Dovarganes / AP Another Step Toward El Chapo’s Extradition
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry signed off Friday on the U.S.’s extradition request for the drug kingpin who led the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Guess Who the NRA Endorsed for President?
Spoiler alert: It wasn’t Hillary Clinton.
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Track of the Day: 'GIRLS @'
Earlier this week, Chance the Rapper tweeted out three crying emojis, three high-five emojis, and one prayer-hands emoji because The…
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Diego Cambiaso / Flickr A Shooting Near the White House
The Secret Service shot and critically wounded a person. The president was not in the compound at the time.
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Gaffe Track: Hillary Clinton's 'Vennghazi'
The candidate: Hillary Clinton The gaffe: Vennghazi! The candidate’s Twitter account, on Friday, shared a diagram that purported to…
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Sergio Perez / Reuters FC Barcelona’s Reclaimed Flags
A judge overruled Spanish authorities’ ban of a flag that signifies Catalan independence.
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Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters The Record-Setting Climb Up Everest, Set by a Convenience-Store Cashier
Lhakpa Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for the seventh time on Friday, breaking her own record for most ascents by a woman.
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Courtesy of Kathy Richland Photography Does Mindfulness Actually Work in Schools?
Scholars want to know whether the practice helps young kids of color succeed academically.
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UPI The Atlantic's Week in Culture
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
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Loic Venance / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: 5/14-5/20
The ruins of ancient Roman barracks discovered in Italy, a toddler tied to a rock in India, the South Sudan Wheelchair Basketball Association, a nude Shakespeare performance in New York’s Central Park, and much more.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters How Paper Shaped Civilization
The material gave rise to currency, bureaucracy, and modern communication—and caused panic over technological change.
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Chris Carlson / AP Water, Water Still Is Scarce, Except for California's Rich
California’s decision Wednesday to let water districts self-regulate their usage has people worried the wealthy will opt out.
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Josh Replogle / AP The Count of American Zika Cases Just Got Bigger
The CDC is now reporting that nearly 300 women in the U.S. and its territories have the virus.
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Netflix The Weird, Sweet Comedy of Lady Dynamite
Maria Bamford’s autobiographical series on Netflix manages to break the fourth wall in new and unusual ways.
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If You're Interested in Beer, and Web-Page Layout
Continuing the observation of American Craft Beer Week, this somehow seems appropriate: If you get the joke, you…
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Rodrigo Abd / AP Hackers in Ukraine and Frog Juice in the Andes: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Murad Sezer / Reuters Why Is Turkey Temporarily Lifting Immunity for Lawmakers?
Critics say the new measure will allow the targeting of Kurdish and other opponents of the government in parliament.
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NBC Whitney Houston and the Holographic Hell to Come
The debut of the digitized diva on The Voice was scrapped for not looking good enough—an unfortunately temporary problem.
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Karim Kadim / AP Baghdad’s Green Zone Is Under Siege Again
Supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shia cleric, stormed the secure part of the Iraqi capital for the second time in less than a month.
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Paul Sancya / AP Coal Miners Are Political Canaries
Hillary Clinton has detailed, practical plans to help Appalachia—so why aren’t voters there listening?
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Reuters India's Hottest Day Ever
The northwestern town of Phalodi reached 123.8 degrees Thursday, a historical record high that comes amid a countrywide heat wave.