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Musuk Nolte for The Atlantic Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic The Coming Democratic Civil War
A seemingly wonky debate about the “abundance agenda” is really about power.
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Illustration by Mike McQuade. Sources: George Marks / … How to Disappear
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find
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Photo-illustration by Colin Hunter. Sources: Bettmann / Getty; … When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.
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Photo-illustration by David Samuel Stern* The Talented Mr. Vance
J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.
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Illustration by Dadu Shin My Shipwreck Story
On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.
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Sarah Blesener for The Atlantic The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
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Irina Rozovsky for The Atlantic We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
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Illustration by Javier Jaén Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
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Shawn Thew / Reuters ‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
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Lucy Garrett for The Atlantic The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE
Can an Alabama health clinic survive Musk’s “chainsaw for bureaucracy”?
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Photo-illustration by Paul Spella* What Porn Taught a Generation of Women
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.
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Illustration by Rose Wong Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
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Arielle Bobb-Willis for The Atlantic Dwyane Wade’s Greatest Challenge
The Hall of Famer reached the highest heights of the basketball world. Now he’s figuring out the type of man and father he wants to be.
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Illustration by Ricardo Tomás. Sources: Smith Collection / … I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
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Brandstaetter / Getty How Leonard Bernstein Changed the Canon
In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.
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Dina Litovsky for The Atlantic When I’m 84
The world still needs Ringo Starr.
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic* The Curse of Ayn Rand’s Heir
Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?
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Moises Saman for The Atlantic Can One Man Hold Syria Together?
A former jihadist has remade himself in a bid to remake a scarred and divided country.
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Zack Wittman for The Atlantic Why Aren’t Women Allowed to Play Baseball?
Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.
