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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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Some objects are so familiar and so ordinary that it seems impossible to imagine that they did not always exist....
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Certain foods are more likely than others to wreak havoc on your stomach. Cucumbers have carried Salmonella, peaches have been...
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After the last time Donald Trump won the presidency, in 2016, The New York Times confronted its readers with a...
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Tuesday evening, while waiting for national election results to come in, I dropped by the victory party for Mark Robinson,...
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Although I came of age at a moment when politicians on both sides of the aisle were amenable to hearing...
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In the final weeks of the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump did the following things: falsely accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield,...
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The morning after the election, a second result emerged beside the blindingly obvious one that Donald Trump will once again...
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The last weeks of Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president were a festival of crudeness. In light of this, Tucker...
