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China Is Plundering the Planet's Seas

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By - Gwynn Guilford - May. 01 (Special Report) - The average it told the UN Food and Agriculture Organization over the last decade was 368,000 tons each year. A recent European Parliament report puts that number at 4.6 million tons -- some 12.5 times more than what China reported

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Washington's Backward Retirement Policy: So Wrong, and Yet So Easy to Fix

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By - James Kwak - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - money is being wasted on tax subsidies for "private" retirement accounts such as 401(k)s and IRAs. In 2012, these subsidies added up to $199 billion, or about 1.3 percent of GDP.

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The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Apr. 16 (Opinion) - An explosion erupts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, one of two explosions in an attack in Boston Monday. (Dan Lampariello/Reuters) As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it'd be easy to be scared. It'd be easy to feel powerless

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Photos of the Boston Marathon Bombing

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Apr. 15 (Breaking News) - Several explosions erupted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon today, in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Police are reporting 2 deaths and at least 23 hurt, as authorities begin their investigation.

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The Robot Will See You Now - Jonathan Cohn - The Atlantic

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Jonathan Cohn - Mar. 01 (News) - IBM's Watson—the same machine that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy—is now churning through case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, learning to make diagnoses and treatment recommendations. This is one in a series of developments suggesting that technology may be about to disrupt health care in the same way it has disrupted so many other industries. Are doctors necessary? Just how far might the automation of medicine go?

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Video - What Is 3D Printing? And Will It Change the World? - The Atlantic

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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Boeing's Real Problem With the Dreamliner: Bean Counter vs. Engineer

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallows, R. Aboulafia - Feb. 19 (News Analysis) - there was no contrition or soul-searching on the call about how the 787 could have gone this wrong, or what could be done within the company to make it right (once again, 787 program analysis was left to the journalists). Instead, the call emphasized some impressive sales and profit numbers. It was like a farmer showing off a great crop, but not mentioning that the tractor just broke, he fired the mechanic, and outsourced tractor maintenance to Bolivia. And that customers for next year's crop had been promised penalty payments if the farm didn't deliver.... Boeing's problem isn't just that the engineers have been nudged aside by the bean counters. It's that the bean counters need to rethink the way they manage the company.

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Aaron's Law

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Lawrence Lessig - Jan. 16 (Special Report) - A week ago, Aaron Swartz -- social activist, geek genius -- took his own life. Facing the choice between a federal prosecutor who insisted that he either accept the label "felon" and go to jail or fight a million-dollar lawsuit against 13 felony indictments, Aaron took the third option, and hanged himself. And with that we all lost an incredible soul, one who had literally spent half of his 26-year-old life doing nothing except working for (at least his conception of) the public good. Aaron's alleged "crime" was that he used MIT's network to access a database of academic journal articles (JSTOR) and download millions of those articles to his laptop computer. He didn't "hack" the network to secure those downloads: MIT is a famously open network. He didn't crack any special password system to get behind JSTOR's digital walls. He simply figured out how JSTOR was filing the articles that he wanted, and wrote a simple script to quickly gather those articles and then copy them to his machine.

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Don't Cut Social Security—Double It

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Steven Hill - Dec. 27 () - Since World War II, individual retirement has been based on a "three-legged stool," with the three legs being Social Security, pensions, and personal savings (the latter primarily centered around home ownership). But two out of three of these legs have been chopped back to blunted pegs, leaving the retirement stool as an unstable, one-legged oddity.

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Hurricane Sandy: The Aftermath - In Focus - The Atlantic

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Alan Taylor - Nov. 04 (News Analysis) -

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The Romney In-Flight Fire Scare: Cut Mitt Some Slack - James Fallows - The Atlantic

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallows - Sep. 25 (Comment) - As promised, here is your handy one-stop primer on Mitt Romney's seeming wonderment, after an emergency landing by his wife's plane, why airplane windows can't be opened during flight.

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Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Derek Thompson - Sep. 16 (Special Report) - Here's a brief economic history of the last quarter-century in taxes and growth. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush raised taxes, and GDP growth increased over the next five years. In 1993, President Bill Clinton raised the top marginal tax rate, and GDP growth increased over the next five years. In 2001 and 2003, President Bush cut taxes, and we faced a disappointing expansion followed by a Great Recession.

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Fear of a Black President

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Ta-Nehisi Coates - Sep. 11 (Opinion) - As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America's original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely.

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The New Plan to Save Europe (and Why It Almost Certainly Won't) - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Derek Thompson - Sep. 07 (News Analysis) - This morning the European Central Bank announced a brash and market-thrilling plan to help its diseased peripheral European countries borrow at lower interest rates. The catch? Those countries have to do whatever the ECB tells them.

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Sarah Palin Ran a Faster Marathon Than Paul Ryan

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Alexis C. Madrigal - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - Now, as someone who is an aspirational marathon runner, I'm impressed by anyone who actually completes a 26.2 mile course and I try to stay out of our political coverage, so let me recommend Jim Fallows on the meaning of the exaggeration.

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Mitt Romney Would Pay 0.82 Percent in Taxes Under Paul Ryan's Plan

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Matthew O'Brien - Aug. 12 (News Analysis) - Under Paul Ryan's plan, Mitt Romney wouldn't pay any taxes for the next ten years -- or any of the years after that. Now, do I know that that's true. Yes, I'm certain.

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Everyone's a Fact-Checker

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Jonah Lehrer, Mike Daisey, John D'Agata - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - A recent spate of fact-checking scandals plus an influx of persnickety pop-culture followers show the power of the Web to expose errors and outright lies in everything from politics to TV shows.

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A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Max Fisher - Jul. 23 (Special Report) - I've heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it's only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one of the many local shooting ranges. The city's largest, the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club, advertises instructors fluent in Japanese, which is also the default language of its website. For years, this peculiar Hawaiian industry has explicitly targeted Japanese tourists, drawing them away from beaches and resorts into shopping malls, to do things that are forbidden in their own country.

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Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Anne-Marie Slaughter - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.

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A Reminder That Anti-Semitism Has no Place in Debates Over Israel

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Armin Rosen - Jul. 14 (Comment) - The consequences of a website that spouts anti-Semitism entering mainstream discourse on Israel and Palestine.

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Why There Are Too Many Patents In America

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - After dismissing a high-profile suit between Apple and Motorola, one of our leading jurists discusses the problems plaguing America's intellectual property system. Recently, while sitting as a trial judge, I dismissed a case in which Apple and Motorola h

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The Global War on Journalists

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By David Rohde - Jul. 01 (News Analysis) - Reporters, particularly women, are coming under fire around the world.

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The Programmable Self: Where Self-Improvement Meets Cybernetics - The Atlantic

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Alexis Madrigal - Jun. 28 (Research) - Why should marketers get to have all the fun manipulating our behavior?

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Superweeds: A Long-Predicted Problem for GM Crops Has Arrived

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - After a decade of intensive genetically modified plant cultivation, weeds have emerged that are resistant to the most popular herbicide.

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Technology - Alexis C. Madrigal - When Your Data Becomes More Useful Than You Want It to Be - The Atlantic

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Alexis Madrigal - Jun. 25 (Comment) - Our brains can't forecast what the technologies of tomorrow will do with the information we are uploading today.

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