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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Filippo Monteforte / … The Papacy Is No Ordinary Succession
A conclave only begins to answer the question of who a pope will truly be.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Brendan Smialowski / … When Presidents Sought a Third (and Fourth) Term
Winning more than two elections was unthinkable. Then came FDR.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kevin Winter / … The Critic Who Translated Jazz Into Plain English
When Francis Davis pronounced judgment on music, it carried a great deal of weight.
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Getty Life Before the Measles Vaccine
When the virus was endemic, it spread in a world very different from today’s.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Corbis / Getty. The Problem With Abe Lincoln’s Face
The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.
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Illustration by The Atlantic; Sources: boschettophotography / Getty; … What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About the Past
America was never healthy to begin with.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Photo Researchers / … Susan Sontag’s Vision
The prospect of a journey to China turned the writer’s gaze toward her own family.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Douglas Rissing / … The Education of Elon Musk
The Reagan administration offers a cautionary tale about cost-cutting zeal crashing up against the reality of how government works.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Endless Hunt to Make Meaning of Marriage
Creating a narrative out of a relationship is near-impossible, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty The Specter of American Oligarchy
Generations of Americans have questioned the role of the wealthy few who govern the many.
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Ian Langsdon / Getty Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?
Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. Watching Opera on a Jumbotron
And why I wouldn’t recommend it
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Brilliant Stupidity of Internet Speak
Online life changed the way we talk and write—then changed it again, and again, and so on, forever.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. Parenting in America Keeps Getting More Intensive
The philosophy is hard on parents and children alike.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Scott Keneally. Nicholas Carr: Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?
A conversation about how online life has rewired our brains
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Luong Thai … Grover Cleveland’s Warning for Trump
A conversation with Russell Berman about the last president to lose, then win, a reelection bid
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Milk Has Divided Americans for More Than 150 Years
The raw-milk debate is but one flash point in the nation’s ongoing dairy drama.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Sylvia Salmi / … When Poets Face Death
Their later works have a peculiar power.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. … New Yorkers Won’t Stop Complaining About Dogs
In such a densely packed city, space can feel zero-sum.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty; A Nonreligious Holiday Ritual
The winter solstice is a pristine time for the simple act of noticing.
