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Museum of Flight / Corbis / Getty The Biggest Problem With Air Travel: Pajamas?
The transportation secretary seems to think that fashion will solve flying’s problems.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Timothy A. Clary … ICE and Border Patrol Don’t Operate the Same Way
The agencies are taking different approaches to meeting high deportation goals.
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USA Today Network / Reuters Why One Political Office Is So Mired in Scandals
Maybe giving lieutenant governors a lofty title with few responsibilities is a risky bet.
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TCD / Alamy The Fantastical Storytelling of Nollywood Movies
Nigerian epic thrillers, Chimamanda Adichie’s books, and more culture and entertainment recommendations
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John Moore / Getty Border Patrol’s Chaotic Week in North Carolina
Agents swept in and left residents to sort through fear, fact, and fiction.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Last Device You’ll Ever Need
Tech companies are racing to give AI a physical shape.
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Roberto Schmidt / Getty Trump Told a Woman, ‘Quiet, Piggy,’ When She Asked Him About Epstein
The comment continues the president’s long-standing pattern of denigrating female journalists.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty Trump’s Epstein-Files Punt
The president’s about-face shows how he’s a terrible ally—but he may be hurting himself too.
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Juan Naharro Gimenez / Getty Images Michael Wolff’s Unsatisfying Explanation for Cozying Up to Epstein
The writer insists that it’s normal to “ingratiate” oneself with sources—even if that means serving as a de facto media adviser to the late sexual predator.
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DOW response / Wikipedia 20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months
The Trump administration is trying to treat its extrajudicial killings at sea as routine, even as more concerns emerge from the people who know the most about them.
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Michael Yanow / Nurphoto / Getty What Really Happens After the Shutdown Ends
Congress’s deal to reopen the government won’t immediately bring life back to normal for Americans.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Retrofile / Getty Baseball’s Big Whiff on Gambling
Federal charges against two players for pitch fixing are a warning about the league’s embrace of gambling.
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Eva Marie Uzcategu / Bloomberg / Getty The Real Test for Democrats
The shutdown vote revealed how the party plans to contend with the challenges posed by Trump.
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Maria Korneeva / Getty A Funny Book About Faith
Anne Lamott’s stories, John Singer Sargent’s paintings, and more culture and entertainment recommendations
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Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg / Getty Why This Shutdown Is So Dangerous
The way the president is disrupting essential services shows the dangers of his vision for big government.
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Nicholas Roberts / AFP Getty Voters Who Oppose Wars of Choice Have Nowhere to Turn
Anti-war Americans keep rejecting establishment hawks, only to see the supposed alternatives deploy force unilaterally.
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges
Democrats won up and down the ballot yesterday, riding a backlash to Donald Trump’s second term.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The People Who Will Determine Whether Musk Becomes a Trillionaire
This week’s Tesla shareholder vote could give the world’s richest man more money and more control.
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Christian Monterrosa / Bloomberg / Getty No Politics Is Local
State and city elections are now heavily intertwined with what happens in Washington.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Diana Walker / … Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump
Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.
