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This very important article in The Atlantic by Kurt Andersen explains why Americans are unusually susceptible to charlatans:

Make America reality-based again.
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Big news: We're launching a podcast featuring the writers you know and love from The Atlantic! Listen to the trailer and subscribe:

Each week, The Atlantic's top editors sit down with leading voices to explore what's happening in the world, how things became the way they are, and where they're going next.
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The great Jon Batiste plays The Battle Hymn of the Republic for The Atlantic, which first published the hymn in 1862:

The legendary jazz musician records a new take on an American anthem.
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett tell me they are pro-immigration, and believe that the truth will prevail in the Trump era:

Two of the world’s three richest people extol the virtue, and relevance, of optimism in the age of Trump—and predict a comeback for fact-based discourse.
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Miss Manners examines the state of rudeness in the age of Trump:

The renowned etiquette columnist offers an alternative list of virtues for a time when the U.S. president has violated all traditional expectations of statesman‐like behavior.
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What Fidel Castro Knew About Cuba's Future

When I spent a week with Fidel, a dictator who outlasted 10 American presidents, and who nearly outlasted an 11th, I found a man who sensed that change was coming, and that the Cuban system would not last forever.
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My friend Gwen Ifill knew about Trumpism before the rise of Trump:

"If I weren’t a better person … I swear, I would worry about our lovely nation.”
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The Atlantic endorses Hilary Clinton for president:

For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton.
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The death of Shimon Peres, and the unbearable smallness of Benjamin Netanyahu:

With the death of Shimon Peres, Israel has lost its chief optimist. And the prime minister remains paralyzed by pessimism.
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What will Hillary do with Bill if she's elected president? Here's my idea:

If Hillary Clinton takes office, her best adviser in mediating Israel and Palestine’s century-old conflict might be the man who came closest to doing it before.
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My Atlantic piece on the Republican Party's hollow men, the men who knew better but went with Donald Trump anyway:

Why didn’t the most talented, most influential Republican politicians do more to stop Donald Trump?
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This is an actual e-mail I just received. God help us.

"Look you need to realize some things about Russia. First off Russia is now primarily christain. They like capitalism. If you dont believe me believe Jesse Ventura who has been doing a tv show in Russia for over a year
Now. When he got off the plane in Russia he said he never saw so many xmas decorations. He thought he was in minnesota. Alex jones infowars.com intrviews jesse about this. Vladamur took a stand against t...he new world order. Check out his speach wbhen he won the election in Russia in 2008. He also told the worlds news presses to have common sense and not believe everything their goverment tells them
Do some research of Putin on You tube and realize he wants a free world. He accepts no gmo food. His citizens have free speach and grow their own gardens. Wake up before it is to late. Mr putin is another JFK AND IM SERIOUS . LOOK UP ALSO. SYRIAN GIRL THE EIGHT REASONS WHY THE NEW WORLD ORDER HATES SYRIA. THIS IS A MUST SEE. WE NEED TO WAKE UP NOW."

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My latest Atlantic post on Donald Trump, who is turning himself into an agent of Vladimir Putin:

Fulfilling what might be the Russian autocrat’s dearest wish, Trump has openly questioned whether the U.S. should keep its commitments to NATO.
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"Sharia" doesn't mean what Newt Gingrich thinks it means -- one in a continuing series of articles about the right and wrong ways to fight Islamist terrorism:

One country that officially endorses the Muslim legal system is one of the politician’s favorites—Israel.
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