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Darren Staples / Reuters How to Fact Check The Atlantic
“Our pieces seek to be thought-provoking and interesting, but to be truly insightful, they must be right.”
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Mohamed Azakir / Reuters What It Means To Be Spiritual But Not Religious
One in five Americans reject organized religion, but maintain some kind of faith.
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It might work, and it wouldn’t be America’s first truth commission.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The History of 'Fake News' in America
Fake news isn’t new in America. Objective news is.
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Here’s a transcript and recording of the January 8, 2018 conference call with Emma Green.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The America That Ended in 1968
“There is a sense that nowhere is safe, no one is safe, no thing is safe. Everything is up for change.”
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Ten events that defined the pivotal year.
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Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters A Brief Modern History of Protest in Iran
A civil rights movement has grown up despite repeated crack-downs.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters For Sexual Harassment Victims, the Courtroom is the Last Resort
Victims have to surrender their agency when they go to trial.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters How Politics Becomes Polarized
“Racial polarization is an outcome of politics, not the cause.”
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Thomas Peter/Reuters The Masthead Issues We Loved Most
We asked members and Atlantic staff to choose their favorite stories from 2017.
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Thomas Mukoya/Reuters How to Undermine a Democracy
New voting technologies promise to make elections worldwide more credible. Yet as Kenya’s elections have proven, they’re no match for a broken political system.
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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters How Do We Have a Better Conversation?
Professionals dissect The Masthead’s gun-control debate.
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Larry Downing/Reuters What the Decline of Blue Dog Democrats Tells Us About American Politics
In 2010, there were 54. Now there are just 18.
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Philippe Wojazer/Reuters The Masthead's Holiday Party Conference Call
Here’s the transcript and recording of the December 18, 2017, call with Masthead editors and members.
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Brendan McDermid/Reuters The Collective Wisdom of #MeToo
Harassment is a big problem, so we asked a big crowd how to fix it.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters What China Doesn’t Want to Talk About
Chinese and American taboos are strikingly different.
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Reuters Why We Should Be Worried about a War in Space
There are no rules governing military behavior in the upper atmosphere.
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Library of Congress When the British Got Jerusalem for Christmas
How General Allenby’s military campaigns in Palestine shaped the Middle East for a century
