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The Metamorphosis
The Atlantic

The Metamorphosis

AI will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think much harder about how to adapt.

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August 2019
Raj Chetty's American Dream
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Raj Chetty's American Dream

The economist whose work dispelled the myth of social mobility in the U.S. Has a plan to make it a reality.

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August 2019
The audacious plan to save this man's life by transplanting his head
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The audacious plan to save this man's life by transplanting his head

And what would happen if it actually worksLike a little white Lazarus with red eyes, the paralyzed mouse was walking again.

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September 2016
Why The Saudis Are Going Solar
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Why The Saudis Are Going Solar

The fate of one of the biggest fossil-fuel producers of the past 40 years may now depend on its investment in renewable energy.

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July - August 2015
Guardian Of The Vote
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Guardian Of The Vote

Barbara Simons, a pioneering computer scientist, believes there is only one safe voting technology: paper.

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December 2017
Shark Tank Nation
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Shark Tank Nation

The Rise Of Capitalist reality TV

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December 2017
Nietzsche's Guide To Better Living
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Nietzsche's Guide To Better Living

If philosophy can serve as therapy, its not by offering solace but by jolting the soul.

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October 2018
The Personal Cost Of Black Success
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The Personal Cost Of Black Success

Two men chronicle their rise into the meritocratic elite, exposing pernicious myths and brutal realities along the way.

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November 2018
Women Are Angry. Now What?
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Women Are Angry. Now What?

Rebecca Traister Invokes Fury To Unify Women In A Battle Against Men, But Being Mad Can Prove Divisive, Too.

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November 2018
Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome
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Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome

He turned politics into a vicious blood sport, broke Congress, and paved the way for Trumps rise. Now hes reveling in his achievements.

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November 2018
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood
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These Are The People In Your Neighborhood

Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social-media platform, highlights petty grievances—and proves that Americans have more in common than they think.

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July/August 2018
Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
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Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming

The family battles he described foreshadowed our current national crisis.

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August 2019
The Stock-Buy Back Swindle
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The Stock-Buy Back Swindle

American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs—at the expense of everyone else.

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August 2019
Why The Police Fail To Catch Serial Rapists?
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Why The Police Fail To Catch Serial Rapists?

What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them.

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August 2019
What Inspired The Summer Of Love?
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What Inspired The Summer Of Love?

Love, sure-but mostly drugs

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July/August 2017
What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?
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What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?

What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?

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July/August 2017
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How To Die

As a psychotherapist, Irvin Yalom has helped others grapple with their mortality. Now he is preparing for his own end.

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October 2017
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License-Plate Marriages

YOU CAN marry for love, you can marry for money, or, in Beijing, you can marry for a license plate.

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October 2017
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The Big Question

Q: What Crime Most Changed The Course Of History?

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October 2017
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The White House Mythmaker

How Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s heroic vision of American presidents led him, and the country, astray

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November 2017
Don't Worry, It's Just a Phase
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Don't Worry, It's Just a Phase

Imagine a world without the concept of adolescence.

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May 2018
Unicorn Fever
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Unicorn Fever

The mythical creature rises in uncertain times.

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May 2018
Will Disney Kill Off The Movie Theater?
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Will Disney Kill Off The Movie Theater?

In its quest to beat Netix, it might have to.

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May 2018
What Alexa Taught My Father
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What Alexa Taught My Father

Legally blind since age 18, he missed out on the rst digital revolution.

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May 2018
Mrs. Maisel's Secret
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Mrs. Maisel's Secret

Amazon’s hit show is a fantasy of a woman living in two contradictory worlds at once.

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May 2018
O
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O

A YELLOW TAXI CIRCLES the airport; mist over LaGuardia; rumor of improvised explosive device; a bald Nigerian hack listening to incensed propagandists on WOR, his cab merging with the vortex; and behind the Plexiglas, an entrepreneurial American capitalist half his age, iPhone perpetually to her per fect pink ear, hair dark as a tiger’s stripe.

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October 2016
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What Really Killed The Dinosaurs?

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. Her fight with the asteroid camp may be the nastiest feud in all of science— but she’s reopened a debate that had been considered closed.

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September 2018
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The Lie Of Little Women

Subversive secrets lurk in the gap between Louisa May Alcott’s real life and the story she tells.

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September 2018
The Women Who Changed Spycraft
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The Women Who Changed Spycraft

An old-boy operation was transformed during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.

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June 2019
Ethiopia's Image-Maker
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Ethiopia's Image-Maker

Aïda Muluneh, whose vibrant photographs explore national identity, wants to upend portrayals of Africa.

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June 2019