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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. When One Animal Changes a Human’s Mind
E. B. White was accustomed to slaughtering pigs, until one stole his heart.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Bettmann / Getty; … Attacking the President, Attacking the Nation
The legacy of American presidential assassinations
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Michael Hickey … The Stars Who Came to Hate Their Fame
Celebrity worship can have a steep cost.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty Religious Education and the Meaning of Life
Figuring out what it’s all about is humanity’s most important shared project. Does religion have a role to play?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Stubborn Problem of Cars Killing People
Everything we’ve tried so far hasn’t solved for drivers’ bad judgment.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Bettmann / Getty; … America’s Battle Over Darwinism Was Personal
Darwin had fretted for years about the cataclysm that his book’s publication would cause. In the U.S, one opponent loomed over others.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Case for Choosing Death, Not Immortality
Everybody dies, everybody ages, and everybody obsesses over our only common fate.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Hulton Archive / … A Skeptic Attends the First Modern Olympics
The games didn’t always inspire global patriotic fervor.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bettmann / Getty. The Last Time a President Dropped Out of the Race
Lyndon B. Johnson faced a badly divided nation and knew he couldn’t be the one to heal it.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Hundred Years of Mocking Vegetarians
For a rare lifestyle choice, vegetarianism tends to drive people pretty bonkers.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. America Can’t Stop Dieting
The pressure to lose weight has been unavoidable for more than a century.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: csa-archive / Getty. The Books The Atlantic Loved—And Hated
Revisiting the magazine’s early reviews of classic books
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. What Children Remember About Their Fathers
A reading list on fatherhood and the memories that stick
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Do Students Need Facts or Stories?
“I am not wise enough to say where the young can find what they need,” Neil Postman wrote in 1989. But he had an idea about where to start.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Field’
Their poems about the experience of beauty help explain the choice to write as one person.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Limits of Utopia
Fifty years ago, the architect Peter Blake questioned everything he thought he knew about modern design.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Critic’s Case Against Cinema
Sixty years ago, Pauline Kael said that the movies were going to pieces. In a sense, she was right.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Passover Plot
The dark legacy and ongoing body count of an ancient anti-Semitic myth
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. The Golden Age of Dating Doesn’t Exist
Romance in America has never been easy.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Getty. Solar Eclipses Are Always With Us
“In celestial spaces shadows cannot fail to fall, and the solid earth must now and then intercept them,” Mabel Loomis Todd wrote in 1897.
