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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: George Marks / … Shopping Shouldn’t Be Instantaneous
A bit of inconvenience can be useful.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Allure of Smoking Rises Again
The cool factor of cigarettes has proved hard to shake.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. One Food to Change the World
The bean has the potential to remake American diets, but it has an image problem.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Rise of the Troll
They may seem like pranksters on the margins, but what happens when the most powerful people on Earth are trolls?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The ‘Brain Drain’ in American Politics
Americans have been jaded about their leaders for decades.
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Illustration by The Atlantic 17 Atlantic Covers From Different Presidential Elections
These covers offer a window into the unique and enduring ideas of each electoral era.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jena Ardell / … America’s Shifting Attitudes Toward Marijuana
The myths that fueled the drug’s criminalization have deep roots.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bettmann / Getty. The Hurricanes That Caught America Off Guard
Less than a century ago, many New Englanders were in a similar position to the Appalachian communities devastated by Helene.
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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
