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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Fine Art Images … What Ghosts Reveal When They Visit
Many of the ghost stories in The Atlantic’s archives come from true believers.
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Illustration by The Atlantic A Frightening American Fable
The Atlantic writer who previewed an unmoored country
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Illustration by The Atlantic Writing, Thinking, and Falling in Love in Another Language
I became a different person after learning English.
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Illustration by The Atlantic College Rankings Were Once a Shocking Experiment
Now they’ve become an American ritual.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bettmann / Getty. Allen Ginsberg, Great American Poet-Buffoon
And the lesser-known Ginsberg who preceded him
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Illustration by The Atlantic American Higher Ed Never Figured Out Its Purpose
The centuries-long debate over who and what college is for has yet to be resolved.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A (Somewhat) Definitive History of The Atlantic’s Punsters
And some of the puns even hold up!
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: csa-images / Getty. An Analog Solution for Mindful Living
Poetry tracks our most important data—but not with the intention of creating an optimized version of a human.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. What Does ‘Genius’ Really Mean?
Humans have long tried to understand a quicksilver quality that defies explanation.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: csa-archive / Getty. The Birth of the Attention Economy
The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Interim Archives / … The Life Cycle of Facial Hair
Man’s natural accessory has come in and out of style.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Ivan Dmitri / … The Golden Age of Flying Wasn’t All That Golden
Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Gisele Freund / … Who’s Afraid of Being Middlebrow?
Virginia Woolf.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Archive Holdings Inc. … The Worst Kind of Writing About Young Adulthood
On finding the line between ogling and empathizing
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Camerique / Getty. How Sleeping Less Became an American Value
Working at the expense of rest has long been a pillar of achievement.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Hulton Archive / … Why America Needs More Public Pools
Clean, swimmable water shouldn’t be something only the rich can access.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Best Wellness Advice Has Always Been Free
Take a 19th-century writer’s word for it.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: George Marks / … The Long Goodbye to College
Any recent graduate will tell you that their head felt heaviest after the cap came off.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Tetra Images / … In Defense of Academic Freedom
Three reasons why even wrongheaded or harmful ideas should not be censored
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Illustration by The Atlantic; Source: George Marks / … What Should You Let Your Kids Read?
Giving them some independence can help rekindle their love of books.
