Name: Making Athens Great Again - The Atlantic - Essay Rebecca Goldstein by TheAtlantic in Articles
Duration: 29 min
Description: 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/

Articles

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

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

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/