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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Jeannette Beranger / The Livestock Conservancy The Fight for America's Disappearing Ancient Dairy Cows
Farmers can’t afford to save the country’s dwindling heritage breeds. But can the dairy industry afford to lose them?
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Owaki / Kulla / Getty Growing Up in the Shadow of the Confederacy
Memorials to the Lost Cause have always meant something sinister for the descendants of enslaved people.
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Jonathan Armstrong / Oregon State University How Climate Change Canceled the Grizzly Salmon Run
On an Alaskan island, one of nature’s greatest spectacles is shutting down, as brown bears abandon fish in favor of a surprising alternative.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Why Universities Are Phasing Out Luxury Dorms
In recent decades higher-education institutions have tried to lure students with extravagant amenities, but some are finding that these attempts can actually threaten enrollment and retention.
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Evan Vucci / AP Can a Decades-Old Immigration Proposal Pass Under Trump?
The RAISE Act, with the backing of the White House, represents the best opportunity for immigration restrictionist groups in 20 years.
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Alexey Rotanov / Vladimir Wrangel / Shutterstock / … America in the Shadows
The nation’s dogged attempts to chase eclipses follow its own haphazard maturation.
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David Pollack / Getty America, Home of the Transactional Marriage
The country’s exceptionally thin safety net prompts residents—especially those with less-steady employment—to view partnership in more economic terms.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Durham's Anti-Klan Block Party
Hundreds of residents came out to the streets after rumors of a white-supremacist rally protesting the removal of a Confederate statue.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Why Charter Schools Are Good Neighbors
A study finds that being near charter schools contributes to the success of New York City public schools.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Black Charlottesville Has Seen This All Before
The return of violent white-supremacist rallies to the city is a special threat to its African American community, but not a new one.
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National Park Service The Nation's Official Memorial to Robert E. Lee Gets a Rewrite
Days after the events in Charlottesville, the National Park Service quietly changed its description of Arlington House, the Virginia mansion that Congress formally named in honor of the Confederate general.
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AP The Atlantic Civil War Reader
A look back at how the magazine covered the conflict as it unfolded
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Radio Atlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum on Charlottesville's Aftermath
Did the tragic events in the city and the president’s response mark a major breakpoint in American politics?
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Bob Wick / BLM What Kind of Monuments Does President Trump Value?
He’s spoken in support of Confederate statues while threatening to undo as many as 27 conservation parks.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters The Legacy of Confederate Symbols
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of the enduring debate over rebel flags and monuments
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Patrick Semansky / AP Baltimore Takes Down Its Confederate Monuments
The city removed them less than a week after violent protests broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a statue of Robert E. Lee.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The 1850s Response to the Racism of 2017
How the writers of The Atlantic responded to defenses of slavery in the 19th century
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Chilling Effects of Openly Displayed Firearms
Charlottesville marks a new era of even bolder assertion of the right to threaten violence for political purposes.
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Brynn Anderson / Associated Press The Alabama Senate Race Gets Moore Strange
A Bible-thumper and a tainted insider advance to the GOP runoff in an election that tested red-state Republican loyalties in the age of Trump.
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Max Petrosky / The Hechinger Report Why Suburban Schools Are Inflating Kids' Grades
Middle-class high-schoolers aren’t getting any smarter, but their GPAs are rising—and that’s pushing their poor peers further behind.
