Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Jamil Bittar / Reuters Prison: America’s Most Vile Export?
The U.S. incarceration problem is now the world’s to solve.
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How Much of a Factor Is Race When Cops Kill? Cont'd
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What We're Following This Morning
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David Pellerin / AP Quoted
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Jim Young / Reuters Chicago's Problem With Gun Violence
More than 50 people were shot over the weekend, adding to the city’s record number of shootings this year.
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A Wonderful Recognition for Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Snowden Tweets
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Why Has Crime Declined in the U.S.? Cont'd
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Is Outsourcing Next for Chicago's 311 Operation?
The city was a pioneer in expanding the popular non-emergency government hotline. But it’s become so costly that Mayor Rahm Emanuel now wants to privatize it.
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Gaston De Cardenas / Reuters What the FBI Can't Tell Us About Crime
The bureau released its national crime statistics for 2014 on Monday, but there are important caveats.
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Aspen Institute / Flickr Interview With a Putative Genius
The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates answers my most difficult questions.
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Nice Work, Genius
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Wikimedia The Genius of Stretching Boundaries
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s MacArthur Fellowship is a recognition of many things—but perhaps most of all, his refusal to accept arbitrary limits.
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John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 'Geniuses' Revealed
The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates is among this year’s 24 recipients of “genius” grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Why Has Crime Declined in the U.S.? Cont'd
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Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters Quoted
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Wilfredo Lee / AP The Changing Face of America
A new Pew report says the U.S. population growth in 2065 will be driven by Asian and Hispanic immigration.
