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Big Data has revolutionized everything from sports to politics to education. It could revolutionize therapy, too—if only therapists would stop ignoring it.
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What Your Therapist Doesn't Know - The Atlantic - Feature Tony Rousmaniere

The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/this-article-wont-change-your-mind/519093/

This Article Won’t Change Your Mind - The Atlantic - Julie Beck

The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. Read the full text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/aristotle-computer/518697/

How Aristotle Created the Computer - The Atlantic - Chris Dixon

How Late-Night Comedy Alienated Conservatives, Made Liberals Smug, and Fueled the Rise of Trump. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-late-night-comedy-alienated-conservatives-made-liberals-smug-and-fueled-the-rise-of-trump/521472/

How Late-Night Comedy Fueled the Rise of Trump - The Atlantic - Caitlin Flanagan

By antagonizing Mexico, Donald Trump has made the classic bully’s error: He has underestimated his victim. On issues ranging from counterterrorism to China, the Mexican response could be devastating.
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Mexico's Revenge - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer

Two law professors tried to mimic the big activist hedge funds, investing their retirement savings in a small, languishing public company and trying to shake it up. Here’s what happened.

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Adventures in Corporate Raiding - The Atlantic - Frank Partnoy and Steven Davidoff Solomon

Comedy and tragedy in an age of political chaos

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Alec Baldwin Gets Under Trump's Skin - The Atlantic - Chris Jones

Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the exurbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are yielding to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from you.

Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-online-shopping-makes-suckers-of-us-all/521448/

How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All - The Atlantic - Jerry Useem

Inside Walmart’s curious, possibly ingenious effort to get customers to build up their savings accounts by exploiting the power of lotteries

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How to Trick People Into Saving Money - The Atlantic - Rob Walker

The United States periodically debates whether to do more or less abroad. Trump won by straddling the divide and promising both. But he can’t possibly deliver.
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The Brilliant Incoherence of Trump’s Foreign Policy - The Atlantic - Stephen Sestanovich

The state’s GOP leadership tried to make the state more business-friendly. Now residents are saying their water isn’t safe to drink.

Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/north-carolina-a-preview-of-life-under-a-trump-weakened-epa/521211/

The Saga of North Carolina’s Contaminated Water - The Atlantic - Alana Semuels

The controversial cityhood movement recently created an unlikely political alliance and redrew the lines of metro Atlanta. Meet the city’s newest neighbors.

Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/here-comes-the-neighborhood/523884/

Here Comes the Neighborhood - The Atlantic - Sam Rosen

In three short months, Jaelyn Young and Muhammad Dakhlalla found themselves at the center of America’s debate over radicalization.
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The Mississippi College Students Who Tried to Join ISIS - The Atlantic - Emma Green

The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.

Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-your-child-is-a-psychopath/524502/

When Your Child Is A Psychopath - The Atlantic - Barbara Bradley Hagerty

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

My Family's Slave - The Atlantic - Alex Tizon

Alex Tizon struggled to write about Lola, the woman who helped raise him. He was 11 before he realized she was his family’s slave.

Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/a-reporters-story/524538/

June 2017 Editor's Note - The Atlantic - Jeffrey Goldberg

The story of a decades-long lead-poisoning lawsuit in New Orleans illustrates how the toxin destroys black families and communities alike. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-poisoned-generation/527229/

The Poisoned Generation - The Atlantic - Vann Newkirk II

When the FBI discovered a network of Bosian-Americans giving support to terrorists, they also discovered Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a U.S. citizen and a battalion commander in Syria.

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First He Became an American—Then He Joined ISIS - The Atlantic - Seamus Hughes and Bennett Clifford

A teacher reflects on one of his most challenging students—and the student’s version of the same events.

What My Students Taught Me: Matthew Dicks and Brandon Dorfman - The Atlantic

Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.

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