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Jon Gambrell/AP Pay No Attention to the Oilman Behind the Curtain
Riyadh has refined its control of oil production over the years. But that doesn’t mean it can embargo the United States again.
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Dima Gavrysh / AP America’s Cities Can’t Quit Cars
Five years after “Vision Zero” made a splash, ambitious changes have been slow to come.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP New Year, New Congress
The incoming Democratic majority is aiming for big, symbolic measures.
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Yuri Cortez / Getty A Crime Against Culture
In an industry built on trust, a bookseller and a librarian are accused of stealing hundreds of rare books from their colleagues.
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China News Service / Getty China’s New Environmental Story
Over 20-plus years, China has gone from ignoring pollution to taking center stage at climate talks. Here’s how that happened.
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J.D. Pooley / AP Free College in 2020
Can progressive Democrats win on free-college proposals in the upcoming election?
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Illustration: Justin Metz / Concept: Delcan & Co. The Fight for Love and Pleasure
Why are young Americans having a hard time getting down?
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Justin Lambert / Getty How Teens Turned Instagram Into a Dating App
Dating culture is thriving on Instagram and other platforms popular with youth.
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fStop Images - Twins / Getty Why People Watch Sex They’d Never Have
Niche genres such as hentai have become the Cronut of porn.
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Kiyoshi Hijiki / Getty The Case for Comprehensive Sex Ed
Better programs could help combat gender inequality
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Mendelsund / Munday Behind the Scenes with Kate Julian
The author of the “Sex Recession” sits down with The Masthead.
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Frank Augstein / AP Why Jeremy Corbyn Isn’t Fighting Brexit
Labour’s leader is focused instead on purging the party of Tony Blair’s legacy.
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Gabriel Bouys / Getty A New Answer to the World’s Biggest Literary Mystery
Who is Elena Ferrante? One of our reporters believes that she’s figured it out.
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Mark Lennihan / AP The Outlandish Idea of a Free, Public Library
Susan Orlean talks about her new best seller, The Library Book.
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Francois Mori / AP Taking Soros Seriously
The Masthead revisits George Soros’s 1997 Atlantic cover story
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How to Look Away
People are finding new ways to ignore the stories clamoring for their attention.
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China Stringer Network/Reuters Reporting on China’s Cone of Silence
Xinjiang is one of the world’s biggest human-rights stories—and one of the hardest for reporters to cover.
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Adnan Abidi/Reuters When There's Too Much to Read
How The Atlantic's literary editor turns a daily deluge of new books into magazine coverage.
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Fuse / Getty Images A Script for Productive Thanksgiving Conversations
Tips on tackling tough topics while tripped up on tryptophan
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NASA/Reuters Landing on Mars Is Still Hard
NASA is planning for its tenth Mars-landing attempt next week. If it succeeds, the feat will be worth celebrating.
