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The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
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Yesterday’s decision demonstrates the justices’ sympathy for their powerful peers.
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Roger Kisby / NYT / Redux A New Danger at America’s National Parks
Extreme heat is making it harder for rescue helicopters to take off.
Illustration by The Atlantic How the ‘Owner’s Guide’ Became a Rare Book
A good manual is hard to find.
Bill Clark / Getty New, Ominous Signs for Gay Rights Keep Emerging
A growing faction supports rolling back the gains of the past quarter century.
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In the north, Israelis are not just resigned to the opening of a war with Hezbollah but in some cases annoyed that committing to one is taking so long.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Court Can’t Think Straight When It Comes to Corruption
Yesterday’s decision demonstrates the justices’ sympathy for their powerful peers.
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The quest to predict major earthquakes before they happen
Illustration by The Atlantic The Federal Reserve’s Little Secret
No one really knows how interest rates work, or even whether they work at all—not the experts who study them, the investors who track them, or the officials who set them.
Win McNamee / Getty What Kind of ‘Psycho’ Calls Dead Americans ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’?
Trump’s denial of his own well-documented remarks is a tell.
