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When Melissa Kono, the town clerk in Burnside, Wisconsin, began training election workers in 2015, their questions were relatively mundane....

The prevalence of positive illusions is one of the most well-established findings in psychology. Most people have an exaggerated view...

Mike Solanahas opinions. Here are a few of them: Building stuff is good. The media are unduly harsh on tech...

Subscribe to Autocracy in America here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket CastsHosts Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present, surface delightful treasures,...

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The promise of the American food supply is that you can eat anything and not get sick. You can usually...

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At a gate topped by barbed wire just north of White Sands Missile Range, a miles-long line of vehicles formed...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThe way Donald Trump talks about January 6...