The Myth of Female Unelectability
Today’s voters do not systematically discriminate against female candidates.
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Nicole Rivelli / Sony Pictures / AP It Should End Here
Hollywood sheen isn’t enough to enliven the tiresome romantic drama of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, It Ends With Us.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani Ukraine Was Biding Its Time
While outside analysts downplayed their chances, the Ukrainians were quietly planning an offensive across the Russian border.
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Bettmann / Getty A Dam-Break Moment for Women in Olympics
Track organizations around the world once banned women from running long distances. Then a group of women ran 26.2 miles in the Olympics.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani We’re Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia
Algorithmic collusion appears to be spreading to more and more industries. And existing laws may not be equipped to stop it.
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A three-part series from Radio Atlantic about the pills we take for our brains, and the stories we tell ourselves about them.
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Take Yourself on a Date
It’s not just the quantity of your alone time that matters. It’s the quality. (From 2022)
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They need to overcome the alienation of the radicals and the clannishness of the elites.
Illustration by Jason Lee Who’s Running the Country?
As Washington’s power center weakens in a season of distraction, the barons take over. Here is the story of how Kissinger, Schlesinger, Shultz, and Weinberger moved into the void. (From 1974)
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Illustration by Timo Lenzen radio atlantic•Episode 84The Drug That Could Help End the Opioid Epidemic
One medication has the potential to drastically reduce the number of deaths involving opioids. Yet few people are taking it. Why?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jamie Grill / Getty. good on paper•Episode 10What Do We Really Know About the Maternal-Mortality Crisis?
How a measurement change fueled a crisis narrative
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