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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, many businesses proudly kept in their windows signs from...