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Tim Shaffer / Reuters The Woman Who Sees Time as a Hula Hoop
A small group of people see calendars not as grids, but as as rings, check marks, and other objects that seem almost vividly real.
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Richard Harbus / AP An Updated Company for an Era of Single Women
A new production of the 1970 Stephen Sondheim musical switches the gender of its main character from male to female, making an old show sharply relevant.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Why Donald Trump Needs David Petraeus
The president-elect doesn’t understand that war is politics, because he lacks experience in both war and politics.
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Enrique De La Osa/Reuters How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
Lessons of physical prosperity in a despotic regime
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters What Donald Trump's Military Strategy Should Look Like
The next administration will determine the future of the Third Offset, a plan for ensuring the long-term competitive advantage of the U.S. armed forces.
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The Line Between BDSM and Emotional Abuse
For this reader, the line was difficult to see at first: Thank you to Olga for publishing…
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Juan Medina / Reuters Today's News: Nov. 29, 2016
A plane crash in Colombia, the aftermath of the Ohio State attack, Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP/ Getty Images The Coming War on ‘Radical Islam’
How Trump’s government could change America’s approach to terrorism
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Mark Lennihan / AP Trump’s Transition to the Oval Office
The president-elect is selecting his team as he prepares for his inauguration in January.
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Minnikova Mariia / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / ... Traces of Times Lost
How childhood memories shape us, even after we've forgotten them
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Congress Is Duty-Bound to Probe Trump's Finances
Republicans who fretted over the Clinton Foundation cannot coherently oppose efforts to investigate the billionaire’s foreign conflicts of interest.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters The Unmanufactured Impact of a Plastic Best Friend
For a 10-year-old child with autism, a Playmobil doll is a communicative, social, and emotional lifeline.
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Youssef Boudlal / Reuters The Desert Rock That Feeds the World
A dispute over Western Sahara’s phosphate reserves could disrupt food production around the globe.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Today's News: Nov. 28, 2016
An attacker at Ohio State University, an order to evacuate North Dakota pipeline protesters, Zika in Texas, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Andrew Welsh-Huggins / AP What's Happening at Ohio State University
One suspect has been shot and killed by police after an attack Monday morning on campus.
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A More Detailed Guide to Dealing With Trump's Lies
Yesterday from China, I did a long item on the utter inadequacy of standard press practices in the face of…
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Enrique de la Osa / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Much Ado About Voting
As Cuba mourned Fidel Castro, Donald Trump claimed falsely to have won America’s popular vote, while Jill Stein called for a recount.
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Married to an Emotional Abuser
We paused our reader series on emotional abuse last month when the results of the U.S. presidential…
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Laszlo Balogh / Reuters Between Putin and Trump
The nations of Central and Eastern Europe prepare for a new future.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Man Wins Election, Still Mad
Over the weekend, Donald Trump claimed that “millions of people” committed voter fraud in the presidential election.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Donald Trump's Conflicts of Interest: A Crib Sheet
Sudden progress on a Trump-associated property in the nation of Georgia suggests the former Soviet satellite may be trying to curry favor with the president-elect.
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Saeed Adyani / Netflix The Fault in Stars Hollow
Bad news for Paul: Gilmore Girls, for all its charms, has never been terribly fond of outsiders.
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Track of the Day: ‘Comfortably Numb’ by Scissor Sisters
From reader Daniel: I really like your “most transformative cover songs.” Here’s a suggestion…
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Lasting Damage From Trump's False 'Voter Fraud' Allegations
The president-elect is sowing doubt about the integrity of America’s elections, and may hope to reap a harvest of discriminatory voting laws.
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The Alabama Town Where Demolition Derby Is Life
A visual portrait of Saturday night in Dothan, where people flock from across the South to find a cathartic adrenaline rush.
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Jung Yeon-Je / AFP / Getty South Korean Protesters Call for Their President to Step Down
For the past five weekends, hundreds of thousands of protesters have been occupying large parts of downtown Seoul, in some of the largest demonstrations seen in decades.
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Saeed Adyani / Netflix Turns Out, Rory Gilmore Is Not a Good Journalist
She sleeps with a source. She falls asleep while talking to another one. It’s no wonder she hasn’t won her Pulitzer yet.
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The High-Tech Future of Farming
An MIT researcher has created a computer that will bring agriculture to urban spaces on a mass scale.
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Why Would a Poor Kid Want to Work in Academia?
My colleague Ed wrote a piece last week examining the relative dearth of science professors who are not Asian or…
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Library of Congress / Corbis / VCG / ... How Humans Became 'Consumers': A History
Until the 19th century, hardly anyone recognized the vital role everyday buyers play in the world economy.
