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Alex Wong / Getty How Are Trump Supporters Still Doing This?
It’s past time to stop treating Trump like a normal politician.
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PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy The Only Good Portrayal of a Marvel Villain
Bhumi Tharoor’s culture and entertainment picks include bachata music, the Marvel series Daredevil, and Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Merrick Garland Is No Pushover
The more we learn, the more aggressive the attorney general’s approach looks.
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Scott Olson / Getty Big Cities Are Ungovernable
Lori Lightfoot’s failed bid for reelection is a sign that America’s mayors are in jeopardy.
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Orbon Alija / Getty What Happened to the Recession?
Atlantic writers explain why the forecasters got it wrong—at least for now.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Why Democrats Are Scared to Challenge Biden in 2024
Mark Leibovich on how groupthink limits the party’s options
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AFP / Getty To Save Ukraine, Defeat Russia and Deter China
The future of the world order is at stake.
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Amy Sussman / Getty Images The Stand-Up Special That’s Actually Funny
Amanda Mull’s culture and entertainment picks include an addictive color-by-number game, a riveting comedy special, and The Boss himself.
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Sally Deng Explore Our National Magazine Awards Finalists
Award-winning and nominated stories by Clint Smith, Caitlin Dickerson, and more
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DeSid / Getty The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World
A shroud is settling over the dreams many of us had at the end of the 20th century.
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Joe Raedle / Getty How the Housing Shortage Warps American Life
Atlantic writers explain why a lack of housing makes everything worse.
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Getty Putin’s Desperate Hours
The Russian president is frantic and lashing out in defeat.
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Getty The ’90s Blockbuster That’s Also a Symphony
Megan Garber’s entertainment picks include the “full-throttle camp” of Face/Off, a forthcoming translation of The Iliad, and the cringe-comedy series The Rehearsal.
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Andy Kropa / Getty The Real Elitists Are at Fox News
Republicans and their media enablers despise ordinary Americans.
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John Smith / VIEWpress / Getty The (Still) Unsettled Science of Masking
A new paper casts doubt on masks as a surefire COVID precaution—and people are already fighting about it.
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Win McNamee / Getty The Pointless Nikki Haley Campaign
She can’t restore sanity to the GOP. No candidate can.
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fotostorm / Getty A Popular—And Misunderstood—Theory of Relationships
We’re using the concept of “attachment styles” all wrong.
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Drew Angerer / Getty What’s Going on Over North America?
Fighting the eyes in the sky
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Netflix The Netflix Royal Drama You Might Not Know About
Helen Lewis’s culture picks include a period drama on “the Habsburg Meghan Markle,” a “majestically petty” Clive James poem, and a certain royal memoir.
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CHUYN / Getty Blue States Got Too Comfortable
The left has long believed that Democratic states are the future, whereas Republican states are the past. But migration data tell a different story.
