Trump Is Getting What He Wants
The Supreme Court seems to be endorsing his views on presidential power.
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Trent Parke / Magnum A New Declaration of Animal Consciousness
A group of prominent scientists believes fruit flies, fish, and mollusks might experience pain and pleasure.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Curtis Means / Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Trumpification of the Supreme Court
The conservative justices have shown they are ready to sacrifice any law or principle to save the former president.
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What happens when protest culture and antidiscrimination law keep coming into conflict?
Yurchello108 / Getty The Choice Republicans Face
Too many members of the GOP are refusing to defy partisanship. They’re failing the Alexander Hamilton test.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic A New Sweetener Has Joined the Ranks of Aspartame and Stevia
Unfortunately, it's still nothing like real sugar.
The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.
The Loneliness of Jodie Foster
A star since childhood, she spent decades guarding her privacy. On-screen, she’s always played the solitary woman under pressure. But in a pair of new roles, she’s revealed a different side of herself.
Daniel Jack Lyons Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up
Today’s economic conditions are not just holding Millennials back. They are stratifying them, leading to unequal experiences within the generation as well as between it and other cohorts. (From 2021)
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“As a matter of fact, no one knows what the laws which permit abortion to save the life of the mother mean.” (From 1969)
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“Television is poised to absorb and emasculate the movies, all in the name of home entertainment.” (From 1980)
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Twenty decks, seven swimming pools, and one novelist wearing a meatball T-shirt
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