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‘The Basic Grossness of Humans’
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‘The Basic Grossness of Humans’

Content moderators review the the dark side of the internet. They don’t escape unscathed.
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Alexis C. Madrigal
Dec 15
The Making of an Upset
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The Making of an Upset

Everything had to go exactly right for Doug Jones, and exactly wrong for Roy Moore — and it did.
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Rosie Gray
Dec 13
‘You Need to Think About It Like a War’
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‘You Need to Think About It Like a War’

For decades, conservative Christian voters insisted that character counts. In 2017? Values voters are hard to find.
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McKay Coppins
Dec 12
The United States Is Already a Low-Tax Country
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The United States Is Already a Low-Tax Country

The Republican tax cuts would make it an even lower-tax country, and a lower-benefit one too.
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The Atlantic
Dec 12
What Putin Really Wants
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What Putin Really Wants

Russia’s strongman president has many Americans convinced of his manipulative genius. He’s really just a gambler who won big.
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The Atlantic
Dec 11
What’s Missing From Reports on Alabama’s Black Turnout
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What’s Missing From Reports on Alabama’s Black Turnout

Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones will have to get significant numbers of black voters to the polls in order to win, but the state’s…
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The Atlantic
Dec 7
I Believe Franken’s Accusers Because He Groped Me, Too
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I Believe Franken’s Accusers Because He Groped Me, Too

The Democratic Party needs to stand with women who have been harassed — and not defend the politicians who abused them.
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Tina Dupuy
Dec 6
How the Kremlin Tried to Rig the Olympics, and Failed
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How the Kremlin Tried to Rig the Olympics, and Failed

A study in humiliation.
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The Atlantic
Dec 6
Race
The Nationalist’s Delusion
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The Nationalist’s Delusion

Trump’s supporters backed a time-honored American political tradition, disavowing racism while promising to enact a broad agenda of…
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AdamSerwer
Nov 20
The Making of an American Nazi
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The Making of an American Nazi

How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist — and how might he be…
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The Atlantic
Nov 15
The Lost Boys
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The Lost Boys

The young men of the alt-right could define American politics for a generation.
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The Atlantic
Nov 14
The Civil War Was Not a Mistake
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The Civil War Was Not a Mistake

John Kelly’s account of its causes reflects a widely shared — and incorrect — understanding of the conflict.
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AdamSerwer
Nov 1
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