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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: NASA. What Will Humanity Do With the Moon?
As the Artemis missions work to build a permanent lunar home, we should remember why we keep going back.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Heritage Art / … Rachel Carson Has Known the Ocean
Her journey to the hidden depths of the sea invites a new way of seeing.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Steve Liss / … A Life of Paying Attention
Revisiting Tracy Kidder’s work for The Atlantic
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Celebrity Clock Is Getting Rewired
Stars can stay relevant for longer than ever now.
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Illustration by The Atlantic Raymond Chandler and the Case of the Split Infinitive
An Atlantic copy editor suddenly found herself at odds with the famous writer over one edit.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: LMPC / Getty. Why Dinner Never Gets Easier
If logistical innovation alone could have solved the nightly meal grind, it would have been solved several times over.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic A Presidential Problem of Canine Proportions
Misbehaving dogs in the White House have plagued administration after administration.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic Does Writing Have to Be Hard?
American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?
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Illustration by The Atlantic A 168-Year-Old Question Still Worth Asking
A forceful 19th-century essay on the rise of the slaveholding oligarchy asked: “Where will it end?”
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llustration by The Atlantic. Source: Didem Mente / … Ballet’s New Iron Curtain
The loss of Russia and America’s cultural exchange is a loss for art everywhere.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic Another Way to Be an American
The idea of a “trans-national America” argued against forcing immigrants into an Anglo-Saxon mold.
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Illustration by The Atlantic Your Phone Is a Slot Machine
Gambling is no longer confined to casinos, horse races, or backroom card games.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Found Image Holdings … ‘To Begin the World Over Again’
Common Sense was a provocation in 1776. Maybe it’s the provocation we need now.
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Illustration by The Atlantic Does Anyone Else Have 1898 Déjà Vu?
Trump has upended a long tradition of claiming, however hypocritically, that foreign intervention is not about power or profit.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: H. Armstrong Roberts. The Secret to Loving Winter
Early January can feel like the comedown after too much sparkle. But the calm that follows has its own promise.
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Illustration by The Atlantic When One Honest Politician Isn’t Enough
James Garfield is often portrayed as a good man in an age of bad governance, but the real story is a little more complicated.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Ever-Present Panic About America’s Schools
Illiteracy worries have long been irresistible to the educated class.
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Illustration by The Atlantic A Piece of Internet History the Internet Almost Forgot
The year 1995: Flash art, dial-up, and the first days of The Atlantic online
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Illustration by The Atlantic Doomscrolling in the 1850s
The Atlantic was born in an era of information overload.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Wonder of Watching People Run
Marathons have gathered strangers for more than a century now.
