Name: How Poetry Came to Matter Again - The Atlantic - Jesse Lichtenstein by TheAtlantic
Duration: 33 min 20 s
Description: A young generation of artists is winning prizes, acclaim, and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways.

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

Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/

Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? - The Atlantic -  Liza Mundy

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

What Facebook Did to American Democracy - The Atlantic - Alexis Madrigal

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

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

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

Your Lying Mind - The Atlantic - Ben Yagoda

A young generation of artists is winning prizes, acclaim, and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways.

How Poetry Came to Matter Again - The Atlantic - Jesse Lichtenstein

The Constitution once united a diverse country under a banner of ideas. But partisanship has turned Americans against one another—and against the principles enshrined in our founding document.

The Threat of Tribalism -- The Atlantic -- Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

A boisterous new age of global children’s entertainment has arrived —and it’s not at all what we adults were expecting.

How Poetry Came to Matter Again - The Atlantic - Jesse Lichtenstein

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