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Evan Vucci / AP A Coup by Another Name
The Masthead debates the nature of political takeovers.
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Reed Saxon / Reuters Why Are American Colleges So Ridiculously Expensive?
The Masthead investigates.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters Far-Right Rising
In Europe’s elections, the far-right is gaining ground as the center fragments.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Is School the Only Way to Get an Education?
What Tara Westover learned from writing Educated
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Cario Allegri/Reuters A Coup in America?
The anonymous op-ed is dire. But does it describe a coup?
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Mike Blake / Reuters Capturing the Magic of the Early Web, IRL
XOXO is the event that wants to make the internet a better place.
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Hulton Deutsch / Getty Images Found: The One Article You Should Read Right Now
The winner of the Masthead Longreads Bracket is …
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Adrees Latif/Reuters How Will Separated Kids Find Their Parents?
Five hundred twenty-eight kids are still in U.S. government custody.
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Mohamad Torokman / Reuters A Study Guide to the Rise of Authoritarianism
The historian Timothy Snyder’s new book has lessons for resisting the creep of tyranny.
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Tim Chong / Reuters Wanted: The One Story Everyone Should Read
The Masthead is starting a competition to find this summer’s best longread.
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Phil Noble / Reuters Should You Take a DNA Test?
Kits from companies like 23andMe can reveal unpleasant surprises.
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Stringer / Reuters A Moral Case for Giving People Money
“Poverty is a human-rights issue.”
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Jim Wells / AP The Press vs. the President
A brief history of the struggles between journalists and the presidents they cover
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How the Song of the Summer Is Changing
2018’s race for the song of the summer makes clear just how profoundly the center of popular music has shifted.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Let’s Debate Universal Basic Income in the U.S.
What’s your stance on the government giving people money?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Charlottesville, 2018
The impact of “Unite the Right,” one year later
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Matt York / AP The Midterms Mystery
Unknowns dominate the race for Congress.
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Heribert Proepper / AP What We’re Reading This Summer
Educated by Tara Westover and The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
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Richard Vogel / AP The Case Against Abolishing ICE
Fixing the agency only requires going back a few years in its history.
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Darren Whiteside / Reuters How Autocrats Are Gaining the Upper Hand
A guide to the democratic recession
