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During the past several weeks, President Trump has been ramping up his racist and inflammatory attacks on nonwhite lawmakers and activists. After telling four lawmakers of color to “go back” to where they came from, he targeted…

Megan Barton Hanson, Wes Nelson, Georgia Steel, Dani Dyer, Jack Fincham, Laura Anderson, Paul Knops, Samira Mighty, Josh Denzel, Kaz Crossley, and Alex George during the Love Island Live photocall at ICC Auditorium on August 10th, 2018,…

Subscribe to Radio Atlantic: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher (How to Listen)Listen to Edward-Isaac Dovere interview Dana Nessel on Radio Atlantic.DETROIT—A white moderate man can win statewide in Michigan, sure, but so can a…

But I couldn’t find almost anyone at the debate site who was confident that the night would change the dynamics of the race. Most of the campaign staffers and other Democratic operatives I spoke with were confident it wouldn’t. The…

(Photo: Jp Valery/Unsplash)There were a dozen of us in that small beige room in Morton, Illinois. We were in a stone building, which sat just beyond the Walmart, where the town diffuses into farmland. The building is now the home of the…

(Photo: Jeffrey Hamilton/Unsplash)This story was produced in collaboration with the Hechinger Report.On a recent Thursday morning, when most of their peers were busy prepping for the day, a dozen teachers and staff at Delaware's Sussex…

Recently I had coffee with a fellow veteran. She recalled her experience of going to sea with the Royal Navy for the first time. On being shown which compartments she could use to dry laundry, she had her attention drawn to special…

"Our data suggests that there are universal stereotypes of biracial individuals—namely, that they are attractive, and struggle with belonging," researchers conclude.(Photo: Clay Banks/Unsplash)The growing number of biracial Americans…

This week, the Chicago Defender, one of the most renowned black newspapers in America, will cease to produce a print edition. Though it will continue to publish online, the demise of the Defender as a physical object, a hundred and…

“We have to be honest about our own candidacy’s viability,” Swalwell said as he announced his exit in California.He had centered his campaign around taking aggressive action to combat gun violence. And in the grand political tradition of…