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Exploring the American Idea since 1857.

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VIDEO: In a sit-down interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barack Obama reveals that he’s okay with the criticism. 

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From Signs of Spring, one of 35 photos. Something gentle and beautiful today, a few glimpses at the new season. A cat rests in a cherry blossom tree on a spring day in a Tokyo park on March 30, 2017. (Toru Hanai / Reuters)

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Will Trump ever be blamed? Olga Khazan asks. Even after his plan to repeal Obamacare fizzled, his supporters seemed to blame anyone but him. 

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From Sage Stossel, “Averting Senate Meltdown”

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Ever since Harriet Beecher Stowe helped found the magazine in the spring of 1857, women have been integral to The Atlantic.

During the Cold War, a concerned Eleanor Roosevelt watched Russian influence spread to the world’s “uncommitted nations” and called for a re-dedication to the 'American Dream’ in the April 1961 issue. In our August 1932 issue, Hellen Keller wrote a piece titled “Put Your Husband in the Kitchen,” in the form of humorous Depression-era business advice-giving. 

The covers featured here include one from August 1968 with songwriter and activist Joan Baez, in which she shares excerpts from her journal; Wendy Kaminer on “Feminism’s Identity Crisis” leading the October 1993 issue; and the July/August 2013’s cover story by Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” arguing that true equality entails sweeping policy changes. Do you have a favorite female Atlantic writer or artist? Comment below.

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Can pants be so tight that they cause blood clots, or back pain? Katie Heaney asks the most pressing questions in Are Skinny Jeans Going to Kill Me?

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From Teresa Mathew’s piece on the India’s first transgender school.

"When India's first transgender school, Sahaj, was inaugurated on December 30, 2016, media organizations reported that it had 10 students and intended to offer accredited online classes through the National Institute of Open Schooling as well as vocational training to trans dropouts in their 20s and 30s. It was the first school of its kind in India, and the first time the Catholic Church had gotten involved in such a capacity with the issue of transgender education.

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Explore Manning’s timeline or find your own!

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From Molly Ball’s feature on Kellyanne Conway in the March 2017 issue: 

When Conway’s critics pile on, she just keeps spinning. “She can stand in the breach and take incoming all day long,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, told me. “That’s something you can’t coach.” She’s figured out that she doesn’t need to win the argument. All she has to do is craft a semi-plausible (if not entirely coherent) counternarrative, so that those who don’t want to look past the facade of Trump’s Potemkin village don’t have to.

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Can Wall Street save Trump from himself? William D. Cohen asks in the March 2017 issue. 

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WATCH: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the perspective that comes with motherhood.

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Alex Wagner exhumes America’s tortured relationship with illegal deportation and relates it to Trump’s draft executive order aimed at “protecting U.S. jobs,” and one that would shut America’s doors to immigrants most likely to require public assistance. Read America’s Forgotten History of Illegal Deportations.

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WATCH: Bill Nye on the nature of regret.

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How will history remember your timeline? Enter your birthday to measure your life against the backdrop of history in The Atlantic’s Life Timeline.

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From David Wise’s cover story, The President and the Press in the April 1973 issue: 

The First Amendment clearly protects the printed press. But the Founding Fathers, after all, did not foresee the advent of television, and the degree to which broadcasting is protected by the First Amendment has been subject to shifting interpretation. Technology has outpaced the Constitution, and the result is a major paradox: television news, which has the greatest impact on the public, is the most vulnerable and the least protected news medium.

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WATCH: Chimamanda Adichie on what Americans get wrong about Africa.

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And the Academy Award goes to. . .

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For a full recap, here’s our liveblog from the Oscars 2017.