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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?
What the research says about the gender divide across the world
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Marcelo Murillo / … Does Democracy Even Work?
One researcher tests the limits of “deliverism.”
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. An American-Style Housing Crisis in New Zealand
What the United States can learn from the Pacific nation
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Douglas Sacha / … The Evidence on Policing and Crime
Revisiting the need for police, four years after international Black Lives Matter protests
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Tim Jensen / … Is Ambivalence Killing Parenthood?
And can deciding to have kids even be a rational exercise in the first place?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Per Breiehagen / … Was Agriculture the Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
Did it solve scarcity or create it?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kent Nishimura / … A Former Republican Strategist on Why Harris Lost
Inflation, moderation, and candidate effects
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bettmann / Getty. The Immigration-Wage Myth
Does the American worker have good reason to fear immigration?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Peter Dazeley / … Does ‘Greedflation’ Explain High Prices?
Anger at high grocery prices may help reelect Donald Trump. Is corporate greed to blame?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats?
More Black and Latino voters are open to voting for Republicans.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Felix Zahn / … Why Both Parties Agree on Raising (These) Taxes
On chickens, cute trucks, semiconductor chips, and bananas
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Paul Almasy / … What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’?
New research upends conventional wisdom on what actually drives economic growth.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Would You Give Up Your Kidney for $50,000?
I mean, it’s one kidney. What could it cost?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Mariia Skovpen / … Why Back-to-School Leads to More Crime
New research complicates the uncomplicated idea that attending school is good for kids.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. When Fact-Checks Backfire
New research shows their promise—and limits.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Why Police Officers Rarely Change Jobs
What happens when officers feel stuck in a department?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Who’s Responsible for the Housing Crisis?
How local governments broke America’s housing markets
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Universal History Archive … The Rights of American Slaves
The hidden history of how some enslaved people exercised legal rights
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bloomberg Creative / … You May Miss Wokeness
“Wokeness” has few defenders left. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to defend.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kamil Krzaczynski / … Can a VP Candidate Actually Move the Needle?
Matt Yglesias on what the choice of Tim Walz really tells us about the Harris campaign
