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

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

Years after research contradicts common practices, patients continue to demand them and doctors continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatment.

When Evidence Says No, But Doctors Say Yes - The Atlantic - David Epstein and ProPublica

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

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

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

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

In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.

The Coddling of the American Mind - The Atlantic - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

For most of its history, the United States relied on the trial system to administer criminal justice. Not
anymore. We live in the age of the plea bargain—and millions of Americans are suffering the
consequences.

Innocence Is Irrelevant - The Atlantic - Emily Yoffe

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

It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.

Strivings of the Negro People - The Atlantic - W.E. Burghardt Du Bois

Donald Trump’s presidency is predicated nearly entirely on the negation of a black president. and the constituencies he has activated are not going away.

The First White President - The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a bigger margin than almost anywhere else in the world. A case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.

Boys Are Not Defective - The Atlantic - Amanda Ripley

Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his fraternity brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.

A Death at Penn State - The Atlantic - Caitlin Flanagan

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

In 2050 the world population will be 10 billion. Can everyone eat without destroying the Earth?

How Will We Feed the New Global Middle Class? - The Atlantic - Charles C. Mann

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

He posed as a war hero, a surgeon, an investment banker. His girlfriends thought he was too good to be true—and he was. When police failed to stop him, his victims banded together to take him down.

The Perfect Man - The Atlantic - Rachel Monroe

Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News - The Atlantic - Robinson Meyer

The gilded future of the top 10 percent—and the end of opportunity for everyone else.

The Birth of a New American Aristocracy - The Atlantic - Matthew Stewart

Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?

Your Lying Mind - The Atlantic - Ben Yagoda

The Pentagon’s R&D arm, DARPA, gave us drones and the internet. Now the agency has a new mission: to fold computers into the brain and nervous system—or maybe vice versa. Silicon Valley is eating all of this up.

The Pentagon Wants to Weaponize the Brain. What Could Go Wrong?- The Atlantic - Michael Joseph Gross

He turned politics into a vicious blood sport, broke Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now he's reveling in his achievements.

Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome - The Atlantic - McKay Coppins

She had her whole future mapped out when she met Ted Cruz, starting with her dream job in Washington. This is the story of what came after.

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