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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Bob DeChiara / USA Today Sports / Reuters The Issue at the Heart of MLB's Free-Agency Debate
Baseball’s labor rules are at odds with the larger, evolving understanding of the worth of aging superstars.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Could Conservatives Actually Pull Off a Coup Against House Leadership?
“There are some who believe being relevant means throwing a hand grenade in the middle of the conference.”
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Lisa Marie Pane / AP What I Saw Treating the Victims From Parkland Should Change the Debate on Guns
They weren’t the first mass-shooting victims the Florida radiologist saw—but their wounds were radically different.
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AP My High School’s Tragedy Actually Led to Change
When seven of my classmates were killed, the government acted swiftly and decisively to prevent a recurrence. That’s because of one crucial difference.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 'Sex Invades the Schoolhouse'
Fifty years ago, panicked parents helped spread sex-ed programs to schools across the country, even as panicked critics mobilized to stop them.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What Clarence Thomas Gets Wrong About the Second Amendment
The justice’s consistent pro-gun arguments fail to reconcile rights with their lived consequences.
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Rick Bowmer / AP Trump’s Hollow Gesture on Guns
Experts and advocates on both sides of the gun debate say the president’s proposal to ban bump stocks is more performative than meaningful.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Where Gun-Control Advocates Could Win in 2018
There’s a clear path to rebuilding a House majority that supports restrictive measures. It runs through America’s suburbs.
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Mark Wallheiser / AP Photos: Teenagers Demand 'Never Again' in an Age of Mass Shootings
A week after 17 people were murdered in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, teenagers across South Florida, in areas near Washington, D.C., and in other parts of the United States walked out of their classrooms to stage protests against the horror of school shootings and to advocate for gun law reforms.
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This Average Joe Is the Most Quoted Man in News
A retired highway maintenance worker has been interviewed by American media outlets over a thousand times.
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Hank Willis Thomas* The Chasm Between Racial Optimism and Reality
Five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., equality, for many, remains a distant dream.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty A Mentor's Advice to UCLA's Campus Republicans
The sociologist Gabriel Rossman offered valuable advice to UCLA students on the responsibilities that accompany free speech—and modeled the importance of having conservative faculty on campus.
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Nathan Bajar / The Atlantic Radio Atlantic: Who Killed Jeffrey Young?
The second of three parts in our story about Benjamine Spencer, who’s spent most of his life in prison for a murder in Dallas
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Bettmann / Getty The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.
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Dominick Reuter / Reuters Selfishness Is Killing Liberalism
The path to its revival lies in self-sacrifice, and in placing collective interests ahead of the narrowly personal.
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Leah Millis / Reuters America Is Under Attack and the President Doesn't Care
Trump’s gravest responsibility is to defend the United States from foreign attack—and he’s done nothing to fulfill it.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters President Trump's Hunger Games
The administration’s proposal to overhaul SNAP would squeeze the nutrition safety net, and make it more paternalistic.
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Reuters 'Show Us the Carnage'
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Mueller's Message to America
The clear goal of the special counsel is to speak to the American public about the seriousness of Russian interference.
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George Francis Schreiber / Library of Congress The Mystery Behind Frederick Douglass's Birthday
Two hundred years ago, one of the 19th century’s most significant Americans began his life in anonymity and bondage.
