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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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An Intoxicating 500-Year-Old Mystery
The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.
What Democrats Can Learn From the Trauma of 1968
They need to overcome the alienation of the radicals and the clannishness of the elites.
The Walz-Vance Inversion
Both candidates seek to appeal to swing voters as well as their party’s base—but they do so in totally opposite ways.
Having a Chance Has Changed the Democrats
After months of gloom, the prospect of victory has transformed the party faithful.
A Hot New Bombshell Is Taking Over Reality TV
Love Island USA is a dizzy, goofy delight—but the reasons for its success go deeper than its vision of dating-show chaos.
What I Learned at the Police Academy
Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly.
Progressives Are Excited About Tim Walz. Should They Be?
The left is claiming him as one of its own, but Walz has broken with Democrats in the past.
Google Already Won
A landmark antitrust ruling will not change how people find information on the internet.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Climate Change Is Shifting the Planet’s Most Basic Properties
Humans have managed to slow the Earth’s spin and shift its axis.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Shutterstock. What I Learned at the Police Academy
Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly.
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The ICJ’s opinion on the West Bank is devastating, and it isn’t wrong.
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Paying a little more attention to life outside of sports could benefit their mental health, during competition and after.
Lynsey Addario for The Atlantic with support from National Geographic Society 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.
