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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic The Congressman Who Saw the Truth About Biden
While many Democrats remained in denial, Mike Quigley perceived something painfully familiar.
Photo-illustration by Joan Wong Finally, Justice
Two years ago, I wrote an Atlantic cover story about the case of C. J. Rice, a Philadelphia teenager convicted of attempted homicide. Today, he was exonerated. C. J. Rice is now a free man.
Caroline Gutman for The Atlantic This Is Not Justice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
Painting by Fulton Leroy Washington (MR WASH). Source: Malike Sidibe for The Atlantic. Why Americans Fall for Grifters
A warning from a 1957 film
Illustration by Matthieu Bourel; Photographs from AF Archive; Alamy; Everett Collection; Ronald Grant Archive Two Tornadoes 14 Years Apart, and a Man Who Saw Them Both
Oklahoma native Dustin Ellison has twice sifted through the wreckage of the same 7-11.
