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Today The Atlantic is announcing four new members of the editorial staff: Gabby Deutch and Ian Bogost as staff writers,...

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Every July, I take my boys back to my hometown in Indiana so we can watch the Independence Day parade....

In the Henrik Ibsen play The Wild Duck, Dr. Relling dispenses a drug that soothes the most profound self-loathing: livsløgn,...

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Attorney General Todd Blanche has made abundantly clear that he will not act independently of President Trump’s desires. So yesterday,...

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These are the facts that no one disputes: On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three young children to...