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The Bonds Of Battle - Tom Taylorson

Detective Story-Grover Gardner

Listen to an audio version of The Atlantic Magazine's January/February 2017 cover story by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- My President Was Black. See the original full text article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/

My President Was Black - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic - JanFeb 2017

Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has. Text version is published here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/

The Original Underclass -Alec McGillis and ProPublica - The Atlantic Magazine

Who killed Alexander Perepilichny? An audio version of the Article that was originally published in the January/February 2017 issue of The Atlantic.  See the full text here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/the-poison-flower/508736/

An Enemy of the Kremlin Dies in London - The Atlantic - By Jeffrey Stern

The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. If Congress is quiescent and the public listless, Donald Trump can set the country down a path toward illiberalism, institutional subversion, and endemic graft. Full Text can be found here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

How to Build an Autocracy - David Frum - The Atlantic March 2017

A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country. Full text published here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/americas-great-divergence/514784/

America’s Great Divergence - Alana Samuels - The Atlantic

Big Data has revolutionized everything from sports to politics to education. It could revolutionize therapy, too—if only therapists would stop ignoring it.
Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/what-your-therapist-doesnt-know/517797/

What Your Therapist Doesn't Know - The Atlantic - Feature Tony Rousmaniere

Will the truth ever catch up with Trump’s most skilled spinmeister?
Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/kellyannes-alternative-universe/517821/

Kellyanne's Alternative Universe - The Atlantic - Molly Ball

How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal. Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/making-athens-great-again/517791/

Making Athens Great Again - The Atlantic - Essay Rebecca Goldstein

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

Comedy and tragedy in an age of political chaos

Read full text here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/alec-baldwin-gets-under-trumps-skin/521433/

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

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The story of the Russian mob in Spain—and the detectives who spent years trying to bring them down.

Gangsters of the Mediterranean - The Atlantic - Sebastian Rotella

Why? Because there's very little known about the thousands of victims who survive deadly shootings.

Americans Don't Really Understand Gun Violence - The Atlantic - David S. Bernstein

Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.

Paul Manafort, American Hustler - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer

How the United States lost the faith of its citizens-and what it can do to win them back

America is Not a Democracy - The Atlantic - Yascha Mounk

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

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