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Why Right-Wing Influencers Keep Saying the Jews Killed JFK

The Atlantic 26 Mar 2025
When the National Archives and Records Administration released previously unseen documents relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy last week, the world learned something interesting ... The answer. less than 24 hours ... [Read ... [Yair Rosenberg ... .
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The Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big Law

The Atlantic 26 Mar 2025
Few Americans will have much sympathy for lawyers whose annual income reaches seven figures ... Without lawyers to represent them, those opposing Trump’s policies will, in effect, be legally disarmed, allowing his authoritarian impulses to run rampant ... .
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The Kennedy Center Performers Who Didn’t Cancel

The Atlantic 21 Mar 2025
After Donald Trump announced the appointment of a new chair—himself—at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, many artists rushed to cancel their scheduled appearances ... But more quietly, most scheduled performers have not canceled ... [Read ... .
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Too Many People Died Alone During COVID

The Atlantic 18 Mar 2025
He was one of the few ICU patients whose face I saw in early 2021, when COVID raged through Los Angeles ... But in a surreal departure from my usual practice, I’d never once seen these patients myself ... a terrifying and rapid onslaught of COVID cases ... .
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The Mother of All Tax Loopholes

The Atlantic 17 Mar 2025
America’s superrich have always found ways to avoid paying taxes, but in recent years, they’ve discovered what might be the mother of all loopholes ... Step one. buy ... They amass their fortune by buying and owning assets that appreciate ... borrow ... die ... .
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One Word of Truth Shall Outweigh the Whole World

The Atlantic 16 Mar 2025
In October 1970, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.” ... The “fog of lies” can envelop even shining cities on hills ... ... .
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The Case for Palestinian Pragmatism

The Atlantic 15 Mar 2025
Not long ago, I spoke at a university in New Jersey. I told students about the 33 members of my family killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza ... Agitators affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine stood outside the lecture hall shouting ... [Read.
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Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy

The Atlantic 15 Mar 2025
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths ... I thought he was perhaps 9 years old ... [Read ... M ... [Read ... [Read ... .
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Democrats Have a Man Problem

The Atlantic 14 Mar 2025
Chances are low that Joe Rogan will save your soul—or your party. Since Donald Trump’s election victory, countless Democrats have lamented their party’s losses among men, and young men, in particular ... [Jonathan Chait. Democrats show why they lost] ... .
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The Age of Anti-Woke Overreach

The Atlantic 07 Mar 2025
American politicians must have a very low opinion of their own voters ... Moms put the training wheels on our bikes. We need moms. But not in the military.” But they have miscalculated ... That wasn’t an isolated event ... [Conor Friedersdorf ... [Listen ... .
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The Pentagon’s DEI Panic

The Atlantic 07 Mar 2025
I loved the 1980s, when I was a college student, and I especially loved the music ... Enola Gay. It shouldn’t ever have to end this way. Enola Gay. It shouldn’t fade in our dreams away ... It will not fade away ... (My first thought during that presentation was ... .
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