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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

Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop.

Full text published here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-binge-breaker/501122/

The Binge Breaker -Bianca Bosker - The Atlantic - November 2016

As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration. With an introduction by author Adrienne LaFrance. Full text published here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/the-search-for-lost-knowledge/506879/

Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines - Adrienne LaFrance - The Atlantic

If the airport’s experimental team succeeds, every critical infrastructure site in the world might soon have its own in-house intel operation. Read the text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/threat-center/510644/

Inside LAX's New Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Unit -Geoff Manaugh - The Atlantic

Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks.  Full text published here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-franklin-leonard-created-the-hollywood-list-everyone-wants-to-be-on/513830

The Hollywood List Everyone Wants to Be On - Alex Wagner - The Atlantic March 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

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

An exploration of what conflict mediation can teach journalists about covering controversial issues. What we're doing wrong. How to do it better.  A Solutions Journalism Network commissioned article, written and read by Amanda Ripley, a contributor to the Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective. Audio produced by Allison Frost.

Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines - Adrienne LaFrance - The Atlantic

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