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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.
Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/mississippi-young-dakhlalla/524751/

The Mississippi College Students Who Tried to Join ISIS - The Atlantic - Emma Green

Trainings and workshops geared toward eliminating people’s hidden prejudices are all the rage—but most don’t work. Now the psychologist who made the case for "implicit bias" wants to cure it.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/1857/11/unconscious-bias-discrimination-end/525405/

Is This How Discrimination Ends? - The Atlantic - Jessica Nordell

In order to survive, Gallaudet University has to blend a diverse student body from very different backgrounds: deaf culture and hearing culture. Can football players show the school how?

Full text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/05/americas-deaf-team-tackles-identity-politics/525945/

'America's Deaf Team' Tackles Identity Politics - The Atlantic - Matthew Davis

In the past decade, liberals have emphasized diversity over unity, and avoided inconvenient truths about immigration. It's time to address Americans' yearning for social cohesion.

Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-democrats-immigration-mistake/528678/

The Democrats' Immigration Mistake - The Atlantic - Peter Beinart

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

Assertions about how trauma physiologically impedes the ability to resist or coherently remember assault have greatly undermined defense against assault allegations. But science offers little support for these claims.

This is the second story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic. Listen to the first installment here: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy-the-atlantic-emily-yoffe

The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault - The Atlantic - Emily Yoffe

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

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

Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

The End of Civil Rights - The Atlantic - Vann R. Newkirk

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

How ICE Went Rogue - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer

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