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Your Horses

After Ted Hughes Out on the moors in the late June light, I stood where the infinite hills halved the sky and saw where you first...

‘The U.S. Built Wealth Off Enslaved Women and Girls’: Michele Goodwin on the History of Reproductive Injustice

Goodwin, an expert in constitutional law and health policy, uncovers the reproductive health rights stories embedded in American history—and what they tell us...

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared

On a bookshelf near my desk, I still have the souvenir United States flag that I received during my naturalization ceremony, in 1994. I...

Trump’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Science Manufactures Doubt

Late last month, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a document detailing its vision for scientific integrity. Its nine tenets,...

Six Films Better Than the Books They’re Based On

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new...

How the New GOP Tax Law Screws the Middle Class

John Avlon speaks with NYU law professor and former Obama/Biden advisor David Kamin about the dangers of Trump’s economic agenda and the newly passed...

Memory cafes at the National Comedy Center ignite laughter and connection for dementia patients

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. – Side by side on a sofa inside the National Comedy Center, Gail and Mario Cirasunda chuckled at a clip from the...

Rep. Casar: Texas Gerrymandering Could Backfire Badly

Rep. Greg Casar joins Lauren Egan to discuss the aggressive push to redraw congressional maps in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms, an effort...

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