At 38 weeks pregnant with her second child, Hannah Robb has no time to waste on red tape. Yet she’s lost hours in her struggle to figure out whether and when she can get a COVID booster. Her doctor said she could—and should, she told me. According to her …
The implication of the ads is clear: You stink. Not just your armpits—your entire body, head to toe, absolutely reeks. In your default state, you’re basically a gallon of milk accidentally left in a hot car. Never mind that an overwhelming percentage of the sweat glands on the human body …
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For a long stretch of its opening act, All the President’s Men—the canonical paranoid thriller from 1976—isn’t just about the brewing Watergate scandal, or about the battle between a cagey political machine and an enterprising newspaper. It’s also about Robert Redford, who died today at the age of 89, …
The sort of violence that took the life of a Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month is impossible to make sense of. But that doesn’t mean that murders such as Zarutska’s are unpreventable. Her killing represents a confluence of failures within the …
Maya Moore walked away from basketball in the prime of her career as arguably the best women’s player in the world. She’d won two college national championships at the University of Connecticut, four WNBA titles with the Minnesota Lynx, two Olympic gold medals, and both a regular-season and WNBA Finals …
One summer in Brooklyn, a controversy broke out in my dog-park group chat. Dedicated to the upkeep of the park and welfare of our canines, our chat had never indulged in politics before. But someone was now complaining that a dog-insurance company was “Zionist,” and a passionate debate ensued.
This …
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“We finally meet,” Charlie Kirk said to me.
I’d come to a Phoenix hotel in September 2022 to see Kirk host a conference on the offenses of the “radical left.” I remember that …
It was oven-hot inside the arena, and that was before the fight began. The building’s air-conditioning had already lost the undercard against the tropical sun, and the air was thick with humidity. Still, almost 30,000 people waited with sweat soaking their shirts, standing on tiptoe to get a glimpse of …
In the August issue, Atlantic contributors examined the past eight decades of life in the Atomic Age.
Thank you for your series of articles on nuclear warfare. I was especially moved by the essays on Japanese internment and Kurt Vonnegut, but all of them …
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