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Mike Blake / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: 30,000 Teachers Strike in America’s Second-Largest School District
Plus reefer madness, an American interpreter in Helsinki, why forgetting can be good for you, and more
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: A Presidential Contender Makes Her Case
A new memoir from Kamala Harris misses a few things. Plus the intensifying effects of the shutdown, reading James Baldwin, and more
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: What Makes a Border
Wall ≠ “border.” Plus a heartbreaking essay on being too big in growing America, the economics of the richest couple in the world’s divorce, and more
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Unpaid and Still Required to Work
Why these federal workers can’t strike. Plus the crisis of college-student hunger, why your flaws are attractive to others, and more
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Desmond Boylan / AP The Atlantic Daily: The Cuban Cricket Crisis
Governmental warfare, or just cricket sounds? Plus President Trump addresses the nation as the shutdown continues, teens fighting Instagram child porn, and more
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Political Speak
Politicians and authenticity. Plus Sandra Oh at the Golden Globes, the leisure gap between American men and women, and more
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Here's Some Slightly Less Apocalyptic Climate News
New sea-level-rise projections. Plus L.A.’s mayor and the 2020 presidency, the Golden Globes, and more
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Hannah Gaber The Atlantic Daily: New Congress, Same Shutdown
How the 116th U.S. Congress began. Plus the significance of China’s lunar probe landing, AI and Flint’s water crisis, inventing a new holiday, and more
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NASA handout The Atlantic Daily: New Horizons
Unresolved: the government shutdown. Plus one more 2020 contender, the farthest reaches of the explored universe, bad forecasts from Apple, and more
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: She’s Running
Why not just avoid going out on New Year’s Eve? Plus 10 factors shaping the 2020 Democratic primary, the true meaning of ‘miseducation,’ and more
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Huseyin Aldemir / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Finding a Way to 2019
Amazon’s multibillion-dollar “second” headquarters. Plus the Kavanaugh confirmation, cannabis use and legalization, and more
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Sergio Perez / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: The Best of 2018
Our editors pick their favorite movies, television episodes, music, books, podcasts, and more from the past year
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: The History of 2018
A look back at some of this year’s stories: separations at the border, a #MeToo reckoning incomplete, the tragic cycles of mass shootings, and more
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Jon Elswick / AP The Atlantic Daily: Disarray and Departures
Headed into the government shutdown. Plus withdrawing troops, the five years that changed modern romance, the DNA legacy of the Spanish Inquisition, and more
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: A Lifetime of Questions
Mattis resigns. Plus Don DeLillo and the 50th anniversary of the Earthrise image, how far away we are from self-driving-car utopia, food-stamp requirements, and more
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Barbara Ortutay / AP The Atlantic Daily: From the Brink
Facebook’s still sloppy with your data. Plus withdrawing troops from Syria, saving a species from extinction, and more
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Atlantic Daily: Discipline
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious for 2018 screens. Plus Michael Flynn’s sentencing, Instagram scammers, China in the world, and more
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Persistent
Echoes of Trump-campaign tactics in 2016 Russian election interference. Plus Obamacare’s future, Cory Booker says he can still love Trump, the history of the weighted blanket, and more
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Replacements
A new “acting” chief of staff. Plus tabloid catch-and-kill, your most memorable books of 2018, and more
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Vianney Le Caer / AP The Atlantic Daily: There Was a Path
House Democrats speak out against a move toward deporting certain Vietnamese immigrants. Plus an eighth person pleads guilty in the Russia investigation, the decline of liberal arts, Janet Jackson honored, and more
