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The Great Illusion of Gettysburg - Yoni Appelbaum - National - The Atlantic

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:38:12 -0800

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Conservative Media Is the Biggest Culprit in Huntsman's Weak Showing

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:46:41 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - Jan. 17 - Yes, he ran a flawed campaign. But the pathologies of Fox and talk radio were factors in his pathetic failure to catch on.

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How Can Europe Possibly Save Itself?

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan McArdle - Nov. 29 (Opinion) - Well, things are getting a little gnarly in Europe. When you're down to the point of celebrating that Italy managed to place some debt at the low, low price of 7.6% . . . well, it's two for one drinks specials at the first class bar on the Titanic!

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#Occupy: The Tech at the Heart of the Movement

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Alexis Madrigal - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - With the police raids in the past few days of camps from Oakland to New York, the Occupy movement is at a key juncture. We want to step back and look at the role of technology in the protests' establishment, spread, and future. This essay inaugurates a series of stories on the ways that protesters have shaped technologies to fit their needs -- and how technologies opened up new space for their messages. Let's start with what seems self-evident, but what I'm sure is more complex than it appears: Occupy is different from the protests that preceded it. To be honest, I'm not sure anyone can explain why. The list of factors contributing to its outstanding run is long: economic circumstances, a distance from the enforced patriotism that followed 9/11, disappointment on the left with Obama's presidency, the failure to adequately regulate banks, the neverending foreclosure crisis, the Adbusters provenance, severe cuts to social programs at the state and local level, the language of occupation, and the prolonged nature of the engagement.

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50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Oct. 20 (News) - ... the lowest level since 1999, after adjusting for inflation

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Why Good Advertising Works (Even When You Think It Doesn't)

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:18:54 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Sep. 01 - Many people don't think advertising influences them. The marketing industry disagrees strongly. One side has to be wrong.

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NewsTrust on Fact-Checking and the Wisdom of Crowds

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Walter Frick - Aug. 25 (Interview) - Truthsquad is a new pro-am fact-checking service we are developing with the Center for Public Integrity, to help journalists and citizens separate fact from fiction together. We are combining the best practices of crowdsourcing with the knowledge of a large nonprofit newsroom and the reach of major news partners. This unique approach empowers citizens to collaborate with journalists to investigate controversial statements from politicians and newsmakers. Participants are invited to post questionable claims online, research factual evidence supporting or opposing these claims, and verify their accuracy as a community, with professional oversight.

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Michael Mann Cleared (Again)

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallow - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - In my article a few months ago about the importance of China-US efforts to find cleaner ways to use coal -- because both countries, like it or not, are going to keep using coal, and because if they don't find ways to reduce its carbon emissions, nothing else done about climate change will count -- I quoted the Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann (right). I did so knowingly, aware that people who deny the reality of climate change had singled him out for vilification, largely because of allegations of misbehavior revealed by the "climate-gate" hacked emails.

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Scientists: Aliens May Punish Our Species for Climate Change

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan Mcardle - Aug. 19 (Opinion) - Via Jonathan Adler, I see that a group of scientists doing "scenario analysis" on the potential outcomes of human contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence is worried that global warming will encourage those aliens to wipe us out: The authors warn that extraterrestrials may be wary of civilisations that expand very rapidly, as these may be prone to destroy other life as they grow, just as humans have pushed species to extinction on Earth. In the most extreme scenario, aliens might choose to destroy humanity to protect other civilisations.

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The Scariest 4 Economic Graphs I've Seen This Year

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: The Scariest 4 Economic Graphs I've Seen This Year — This is a remarkable sequence of pictures from Calculated Risk showing that no major economic indicator has returned to its pre-crisis level. In other words, after two years of recovery, not a single key broad measure of the economy has actually recovered.

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The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallows - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - You can be against deficits. You can be for preserving tax cuts. You cannot be for both -- logically, that is.

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In Belarus, Clapping Can Be Subversive

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:44:02 -0700

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How Britain's Guardian is Making Journalism History

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Peter Osnos, Clive Priddle - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - From WikiLeaks to News of the World's closure, the trust-owned newspaper has shifted how Britons see the role of the media

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Why Can't the GOP Get to Yes?

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan McArdle - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - If the GOP doesn't cut a deal sometime pretty soon, we're either going to default on our debt (hello, financial crisis, unemployment spike, substantial and immediate drop in GDP, followed by an angry mob of voters descending on their polling places with pitchforks), or we're going to cut a bunch of programs that beneficiaries are very attached to. (Hello, angry mob of seniors descending on their representatives with machetes.) There is no deal that they can cut which does not include raising more revenue; the Democrats aren't going to be the only people offering compromise, and I don't blame them.

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Meltdown: What Really Happened at Fukushima?

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Jake Adelstein, David McNeill - Jul. 03 (News) - It’s been one of the mysteries of Japan’s ongoing nuclear disaster: How much of the damage did the March 11 earthquake inflict on Fukushima Daiichi’s reactors in the 40 minutes before the devastating tsunami arrived? The stakes are high: If the quake alone structurally compromised the plant and the safety of its nuclear fuel, then every other similar reactor in Japan is at risk.

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Congress Divides on Libya, Moves Toward Key Votes

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Conor Friedersdorf - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - Senators John McCain and John Kerry are from different political parties, but the former presidential candidates have a lot in common: both men fought in Vietnam, voted to authorize the Iraq War, and are now pushing their colleagues to support another war of choice. On Tuesday, they introduced legislation permitting "limited use" of U.S. troops for 12 months in Libya. "It is time to authorize the president's use of force, whether he thinks he needs it or not," McCain said.

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Obama Fails to Justify the Legality of War in Libya

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Conor Friedersdorf - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - Is the U.S. at war in Libya, putting President Obama in violation of the War Powers Resolution? Or does our mission against Muammar Qaddafi fall short of triggering the statute that requires withdrawal within 60 to 90 days unless Congress approves military action? The White House took up those questions Wednesday in response to House Speaker John Boehner, who demanded to know why we're still involved in the NATO-led conflict despite those bygone deadlines.

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The Tumblr Everyone's Talking About: 'Literally Unbelievable' - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By James Joyner - May. 11 (Opinion) - The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades. Despite frequent opposition by the party not controlling the presidency and often that of the American public, the foreign policy elite operates on a consensus that routinely leads to the use of military power to solve international crises.

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The Tragedy of Sarah Palin

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Joshua Green - May. 10 (Opinion) - From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. What went wrong?

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The Secret Team That Killed Osama bin Laden - Marc Ambinder - International - The Atlantic

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Marc Ambinder - May. 02 (News) - DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story -- generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. That's the code.

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The Trump Rule: His History of Sexism

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Ujala Sehgal - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - Fresh off the allegations that Donald Trump's various "birther" and affirmative action conspiracies about President Obama were racist, now the spotlight is being shone on Trump's long history of sexist, if not downright sleazy, comments about women.

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Today's (Needless) Hysteria: the S&P Panic

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallows - Apr. 19 (Opinion) - I know that markets run on fear, greed, instinct, and panic as much as on logic. But seriously, how could this non-story have dominated the news today? See if you can guess, from the NYT chart below, when the S&P announcement came out.

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The Brave and Serious Mr. Ryan

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallows - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - I mentioned earlier that if asked to choose an adjective to describe the budget plan presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, I would suggest "partisan" or "gimmicky," as opposed to "serious" or "brave." Most budget proposals are both partisan and gimmicky, so this is no particular knock against Rep. Ryan. But it's worth mentioning because so much of the pundit-sphere (excluding the Atlantic's Derek Thompson) has received the plan as a dramatic step forward in clear thinking about our fiscal future. I think this view is wrong, and that we'll look back on this episode mainly to marvel at what it shows about pundit-world swoon (Paul Krugman's mot juste today), and about clever policy marketing by Ryan, rather than for what it clarifies about budgetary realities.

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TIn Texas, a Brave, New Lethal Injection

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Raymond Bonner - Apr. 05 (News) - Texas prison officials are about to carry out an execution with a combination of drugs and procedures that they have not used before, and that a veterinarian is proscribed from using when terminating an animal's life.

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