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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

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

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

Floyd Landis, a former teammate of the cyclist’s, just won more than $1 million in a legal case against Armstrong. Here are his thoughts on the suit, cycling, and his onetime rival.

The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong - The Atlantic - Matt Hart

A Warning From Europe - The Atlantic - Anne Applebaum

Americans once learned self-governance by practicing it constantly—in lodge halls, neighborhood associations, and labor unions. As participation in these institutions has dwindled, so has public faith in democracy. To restore it, we must return democratic practices to everyday life.

Losing the Democratic Habit -- The Atlantic -- Yoni Appelbaum

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

Raised by Youtube -- The Atlantic -- Alexis Madrigal

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

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