Putin Isn’t Fighting for Land in Ukraine
And Biden has mere weeks to give the Ukrainians the resources they need to fight.
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Dorothy Allison, the Bastard Out of Carolina author who died last week, modeled the power of honesty in her writing and her life.
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The president-elect has long demonized intelligence officers and other federal employees. This is how he might come for them.
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Fire everyone. Turn it into a personal political weapon. Let chaos reign.
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A new book compares the authors and frenemies Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, but its weakness for gossip obscures the complicated truth.
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He campaigned as the return-to-normal candidate even as he promised policies that would unleash fresh chaos. Are his voters prepared for what they’re getting?
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The key to complex life might be hiding miles below our feet.
Damon Winter / NYT / Redux The Democrats’ Senate Nightmare Is Only Beginning
If the party doesn’t figure out how to compete in more states, perpetual GOP dominance is all but assured.
Winners of the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024
Some of the winning and honored photographs from this year’s competition
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Oliver Munday The Exhibit That Will Change How You See Impressionism
The National Gallery’s “Paris 1874” explores the movement’s dark origins.
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Wherever there is stillness there is the still small voice, nature’s old song and dance … A meditation on silence and other matters. (From 1981)
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Samuel Corum / AFP / Getty. radio atlantic•Episode 98Are We Living in a Different America?
A postelection conversation with staff writers Anne Applebaum and McKay Coppins
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Inflation, moderation, and candidate effects
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What happens when you really get to know someone who is your political opposite
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What would you do if you found out that January 6 supporters were your new neighbors?
