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Solutions to the mental-health crisis striking young people in particular are within reach.
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Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly.
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They need to overcome the alienation of the radicals and the clannishness of the elites.
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Both candidates seek to appeal to swing voters as well as their party’s base—but they do so in totally opposite ways.
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Tightwads drag around a phantom limb of poverty, no matter what their bank account says.
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Seventy Miles in Hell
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
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How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland
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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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