Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff Plan
Once you’ve said you might negotiate, nobody is going to believe you when you change your mind and say you’ll never negotiate.
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Little of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly.
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The public has not responded kindly to other politicians who have tried this in the past.
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François Chollet has constructed the ultimate test for the bots.
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The health secretary's clearest ideas about psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Trump Officials Are Treating State Secrets Inconsistently
Officials have been careless with sensitive information while claiming that innocuous facts can’t be public.
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The actor wants back in the industry’s good graces, but his new movie, Magazine Dreams—and the surrounding press tour—isn’t enough.
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The chaos inside the White House national-security team persists.
Photograph by Lisa Sorgini Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time
The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.
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“To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.” (From 1947)
Ullstein Bild / Getty The Efficacy of Prayer
“The very question ‘Does prayer work?’ puts us in the wrong frame of mind from the outset.” (From 1959)
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They could be key to recapturing the culture.
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