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Getty / The Atlantic Ageism Is Making the Pandemic Worse
The disregard for the elderly that’s woven into American culture is hurting everyone.
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Tony Dejak / AP The Coronavirus Is Killing Local News
Keeping these news sources afloat needs to be part of the governmental and philanthropic response to the pandemic.
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Cindy Ord / Getty / The Atlantic How Hillary Clinton Became a Postmodern Menace
The former presidential candidate is in the news again. Why do some find that so troubling?
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Drew Angerer / Getty America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
The country still doesn’t know what to make of a woman—in politics, and beyond—who refuses to qualify her success.
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malerapaso / Getty / Paul Spella / The … The Weinstein Trial and the Lies of Due Process
The constitutional term may be rooted in reason. In practice, it can look a lot uglier.
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Heritage Images / Getty Boredom Is Winning
The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is merely the latest reminder: American politics has become uncomfortably numb.
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Mark J. Rebilas / USA Today Sports The NFL’s Most Valued Cause Is Itself
A social-justice-focused ad that aired during last night’s Super Bowl affirmed a disturbing and all too familiar truth about the league.
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Justin Gellerson The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News
The Dispatch wants to sell serious, fact-based stories to the right. But do readers want them?
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Joshua Lott / Getty The Man Who Saw Tomorrow’s Disruption—and Gave Me Hope for Journalism
Clay Christensen’s insights helped illuminate a path by which the field can survive, even thrive.
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CQ-Roll Call / Getty / The Atlantic C-SPAN Is So Hot Right Now
This is not a sign of a government working well.
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Ira Powell / Shutterstock How One Atlantic Editor Is Spending Her Holidays This Year
It won’t be in the French Alps.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Fox News Covered the Impeachment Hearings in the Fox Newsiest Way Possible
The network that helped put Donald Trump into power is now showing how insistently it will work to keep him there.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Sexism Is Getting Sneakier
Is Elizabeth Warren overly “angry”? The media are just asking questions.
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Larnce Gold / Getty Two Tales of Booing. Two Very Different Views.
Harvey Weinstein’s detractors were told to “shut up.” Donald Trump’s hecklers were dismissed as “un-American.” What are the men’s defenders so afraid of?
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Mike Coppola ‘I Know People Want a Richer, More Thoughtful Explanation’
The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet discusses a controversial headline decision and why the paper’s editorial process needs to change.
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Bettmann / Contributor Why Ebony Magazine’s Archives Were Saved
The famed chronicler of black American life commissioned some of the most important photos in history—and they were almost lost to the public.
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Johnny Green / PA / Getty I, Too, Have Dressed Up as a Chicken to Harass British Politicians
It’s part of a tabloid tradition that doesn’t take itself too seriously—one that not only reports the news, but also makes people laugh.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Netflix’s U.S. Subscriber Numbers Are Slipping
The company is seeing a dip in its American growth for the first time since 2011. What does that mean for the streaming service?
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NBC / Everett Collection HBO Max’s Golden Ticket
The details of the newly announced mega-service are murky, but it has one huge advantage over Netflix: the streaming rights to Friends.
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Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty The Very British Tradition of ‘Verbal Cartooning’
A centuries-old British newspaper tradition continues to find humor in the politically mundane and provide commentary in the era of Brexit.
