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October 10, 2025

Photos of the Week: Horn Cupping, Target Practice, Pumpkin Forest

See images from around the world over the past week, including a long holiday across China, night surfing at a wave pool in Germany, reactio...

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October 10, 2025

Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

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October 10, 2025

The National Guard Deployments Are Very, Very Expensive

If the Trump administration wants to reduce crime, it picked an inefficient way to do it.

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October 10, 2025

Just How Real Should Colonial Williamsburg Be?

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.

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October 10, 2025

What the Founders Would Say Now

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.

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October 10, 2025

The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.

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October 10, 2025

America’s Most Famous Nap

How “Rip Van Winkle” became our founding folktale

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October 9, 2025

What’s Going On With Marjorie Taylor Greene?

The Georgia representative is finding a new voice.

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October 9, 2025

L.A. Might Finally Know Who Started the Palisades Fire

But it still doesn’t feel like closure.

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October 9, 2025

The Political Power of Timeless Art

László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels perfectly timely, too...

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October 9, 2025

The Director Who Fell in Love With Losers

Benny Safdie has built a career by capturing men on the downswing.

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October 9, 2025

Writing, Thinking, and Falling In Love in Another Language

I became a different person after learning English.

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October 9, 2025

Smoke in the Caribbean

What the U.S. government is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more.

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October 9, 2025

What Is WhiteHouse.gov Becoming?

The confusing, creepy new Trumpian visual style

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October 9, 2025

Trump’s Nobel Thirst Is Actually Great for the World

The president’s ego inspires plenty of bad choices, but his desire for a Peace Prize is proving useful.

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October 9, 2025

An Emersonian Guide to Ridding Yourself of Collective Illusions

Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable.

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October 9, 2025

There Is Life After the iPhone

Can the generation most addicted to the smartphone give it up?

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October 9, 2025

Saudi Arabia Gets the Last Laugh

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is just one part of a much bigger plan.

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October 9, 2025

The Nightmare of Despotism

Hamilton feared the mob. Jefferson warned against unchecked elites. But both thought that the republic could fall.

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October 9, 2025

The Moral Foundation of America

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

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October 9, 2025

Secrets of a Radical Duke

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery

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October 9, 2025

We Hold These Turkeys to Be Delicious

What the Founding Fathers ate—and drank—on July 4, 1777

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October 9, 2025

The 27th Grievance

How Native nations shaped the Revolution

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October 9, 2025

The Gaza War Isn’t Over Yet. But It Could Be Soon.

Trump may have ended the Gaza hostage crisis. Can he end the Gaza war?

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October 8, 2025

This Is the Week the Government Shutdown Gets Real

Airport delays and IRS closures are just the beginning.

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October 8, 2025

Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much

Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.

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October 8, 2025

Bari Weiss Still Thinks It's 2020

She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friend...

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October 8, 2025

Bring Back High-Stakes School Testing

Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on testing, accountability, and how to reverse the decade-long decline in U.S. student achieve...

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October 8, 2025

Pam Bondi, Loyal Servant

At a congressional oversight hearing yesterday, the attorney general followed her north star: pleasing the president.

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October 8, 2025

What Not to Fix About Baseball

In a new book, the sportswriter Jane Leavy spitballs with some of the greats about how to make the American pastime more appealing.

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October 8, 2025

The Worst Way to Cut Government Spending

The Trump administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce for a rounding error’s worth in savings.

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October 8, 2025

Into the Breeches

What it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor

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October 8, 2025

Behind The Atlantic’s November 2025 Issue Cover

Capturing the Revolutionary Era in its complexity, contradictions, and ingenuity. Plus: A guide to the figures.

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October 8, 2025

How Do You Film the Revolution?

What we learned making a documentary about a war so distant in time

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October 8, 2025

How the Revolution Tore Apart the Franklin Family

William Franklin remained loyal to the Crown. Benjamin, his father, never forgave him for it.

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October 8, 2025

No One Gave a Speech Like Patrick Henry

How he roused a nation to war

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October 8, 2025

The Myth of Mad King George

He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

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October 7, 2025

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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October 7, 2025

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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October 7, 2025

Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

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October 7, 2025

Dear James: I’m Tired of People Invoking God

Does this make me a bad person?

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October 7, 2025

Something Weird Is Happening With Halloween Chocolate

Where did it all go?

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October 7, 2025

Selections From the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100

Beautiful selections from the Top 100 photographs in this year’s photo contest, depicting birdlife from around the world

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October 7, 2025

What Happened to My Hometown?

The fraying of my family and the Ohio we once knew

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October 7, 2025

Ukraine Might Be Winning Its War of Attrition

Russia assumed time was on its side, but a new Ukrainian strategy is yielding surprising results.

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October 7, 2025

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why the far right wants to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.

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October 7, 2025

Anti-Semitism Is Poison for the Palestinian Cause

No good will come to the pro-Palestinian movement from any association with violent attacks.

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October 7, 2025

Iran’s Bad Options

At most, Iran can hope to wound America or Israel when attacked. But its own weapons can never win a war.

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October 6, 2025

Who’s ‘Grateful’ for the WNBA?

With the league more popular than ever, players know their worth—and they aren’t afraid to let leadership know it.

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October 6, 2025

A Walk With New York’s Most Hated Tech Founder

Avi Schiffman says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?