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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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Real Test of the Iran Deal
The agreement doesn’t guarantee that Tehran will never produce nuclear weapons—because no agreement could do so.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Between the World and Me Book Club: The Stories Untold
The story of a black, male, urban childhood illuminates just one strand of the black experience.
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From Top Gun / YouTube Can the 'Right Stuff' Become the Wrong Stuff?
More on the F-16 and Cessna crash, and whether the collision of a military and a civilian aircraft was also a collision of cultures
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Between the World and Me Book Club: Your Critical Thoughts
Readers discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates's bestseller. Is it too bleak? Does it convey any hope for race relations? Is that even the point?
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Will Congress Protect Gay Rights Beyond Marriage?
Democrats propose sweeping new protections against discrimination, as some Republicans back a bill that would apply to employment and housing.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters Civilian and Military Aviation Styles: Do They Explain Anything About the F-16 and Cessna Crash?
A veteran Air Force fighter pilot really disagrees with what I said about a tragic recent crash. Very politely, I disagree back.
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AP Your Stories of Racism: An Earlier Era
In our fifth installment of a series prompted by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Letter to My Son,” readers share their experiences with bigotry before 1980. Are they much different from our recent stories?
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AP Between the World and Me: Baldwin's Heir?
By being himself, Coates is precisely the sort of writer that he needs to be.
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Joel Page / AP The U.S. Governor Who Forgot How to Veto a Bill
The strange saga of Paul LePage, who’s going to court to see if 65 bills he rejected have accidentally become law.
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Matt Burne An Iranian Scholar Speaks About Thoreau, at Walden Pond
On the day the nuclear deal was announced, a translator on his first trip to the U.S. explained a surprising cultural connection between America and Iran.
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Reuters How Many Sandra Blands Are Out There?
The video of her arrest reveals a police officer abusing his authority—and might never have come to light if not for her tragic death.
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Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters Between the World and Me: 10,000 Years From Tomorrow
The permanence of racial injustice makes the struggle for the future necessary today.
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Dicky Murphy Why an F-16 Hit a Cessna, and Some More-Upbeat Updates
Sobering news from the NTSB, but encouraging news from Maine to California
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Stephan Savoia / AP Samuel Alito and the Slippery Slope of Liberty
The conservative justice suggests progressives should be just as worried as he is about the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage.
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Facebook Sandra Bland and the Long History of Racism in Waller County, Texas
The place where the young Chicago woman was found dead in a jail cell has seen more than a century of racial violence and oppression.
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Lucy Nicholson / Eric Thayer / Reuters / … Call for Submissions: What's Your Picture of the American Dream?
What does a successful life look like to Atlantic readers in the U.S. and abroad?
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The Atlantic Between the World and Me Book Club: Two Texts Masquerading as One
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book addresses a pair of very different audiences.
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Barry Gutierrez/Reuters The Ugly Words of Bill Cosby
A ten-year-old deposition published by The New York Times draws an even sharper contrast with the comedian’s once-pristine image.
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Allison Shelley / Reuters Franklin Graham's Turn Toward Intolerance
The famed evangelist, who made his reputation with humanitarian works, calls for a halt to “all immigration of Muslims to the U.S.”
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John Bazemore/AP An Attack on a U.S. Military Recruitment Facility
A gunman shot and killed four U.S. Marines and one sailor at a facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was killed in the attack.
