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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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters New Census Data Shows More Americans Emerging From Poverty
But it also lays bare the geographic and economic divisions growing in America.
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Mark Makela / Reuters The National Weather Service's New Philosophy
The agency’s recent strategic update gives it a much more active role in girding for disasters.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Looming Superfund Nightmare
As unprecedented hurricanes assault coastal U.S. communities, residents and experts fear the storms could unleash contamination the EPA has tried to keep at bay.
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The Voorhes Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency?
He disdains the rule of law. He’s trampling norms of presidential behavior. And he’s bringing vital institutions down with him.
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WG600; Photos: Associated Press; Bettman Archive; Corbis; Fred … How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency
The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.
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Mike McQuade How Trump Is Ending the American Era
For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation’s global standing, things are much worse below the surface.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Photos of the Damage Left by Hurricane Irma in Florida
As Hurricane Irma, now a tropical storm, moves out of Florida, images of the destruction left behind are beginning to appear.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP From 'Dream Jobs' to Bussing Tables Again
The end of DACA would mean the end of economic mobility for hundreds of thousands of people.
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Peter Yang The Question of Race in Campus Sexual-Assault Cases
Is the system biased against men of color?
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Reuters / Gregg Newton More Than 10 Million People Lost Power in Florida
Thanks to Hurricane Irma, the southwest of the state’s electrical grid will need a “wholesale rebuild.”
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Alex Brandon / AP A Simple Way to Bring Down College-Application Costs
Allowing students to report their own standardized-test scores could ease some of the financial burden of the process.
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Reuters / Andrew Kelly Donald Trump Has Left America Less Prepared for Another 9/11
The anniversary of the attacks provides an opportunity to ponder the nation’s diminished resilience.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Hurricane Irma: ‘Everything Is Under Water, I Mean Everything’
“I have little doubt Irma will go down as one of the most infamous in Atlantic hurricane history.”
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Wilfredo Lee / AP Why a Hurricane Like Irma Poses a Particular Challenge to Florida
The storm’s enormous size, spanning both coasts of the state, could slow the rescue and recovery efforts, officials warned on Sunday.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters Borrowed Time
The president’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program leaves its beneficiaries in fear of losing their work permits.
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Peter Yang The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault
Assertions about how trauma physiologically impedes the ability to resist or coherently remember assault have greatly undermined defense against assault allegations. But science offers little support for these claims.
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Radio Atlantic: Memo to the Huddled Masses
Immigrants flock to the U.S. in pursuit of the American Dream. But is it time for the wake-up call?
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Exploding Chemical Plant Outside Houston Faces Its First Lawsuit
First responders are suing over the exposure they say they suffered following a fire and detonation on the premises of the Arkema facility, which flooded during Hurricane Harvey.
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Marshall Birnbaum America's Latest Utopian Experiment
A next-generation mountain town in Utah is following a long tradition of turning to design to change the world.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters There's Little Evidence That Trump Will Delay a Major U.S. Climate Report
“It appears we continue to be on track for publication at the beginning of November,” says one of the study’s authors.
