The Atlantic - October 2019

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OF NO PARTY OR CLIQUE Features Photograph by NATHAN BAJAR When Tawanda Rhodes’s mother died, the state of Massachusetts sent her ...

Dispatches On the Cover Departments CITIES 20 In the Fall of Rome, Good News for America BY JAMES FALLOWS The decline of the fed ...

THE ATLANTIC OCTOBER 2019 7 VOL. 324–NO. 4 10. 19 96 “Get a Weapon” BY SANDRA SIDI When a veteran military man gave me that advi ...

8 OCTOBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC RESPONSES & REVERBERATIONS THE CONVERSATION The Stock-Buyback Swindle American corporations ar ...

THE ATLANTIC OCTOBER 2019 9 ED MO N^ DE H AR O To contribute to The Conversation, please email [email protected]. Include ...

What can scientists learn from strapping a camera to a polar bear? Can babies tell the diff erence between FaceTime and TV? How ...

THE ATLANTIC OCTOBER 2019 11 IDEAS & PROVOCATIONS DISPATCHES OCTOBER 2019 Illustration by OLIVER MUNDAY As an FBI press rele ...

12 OCTOBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC DISPATCHES “I really just wanted to learn the history of FAMU,” Thibodeaux, a defensive end who rec ...

THE ATLANTIC OCTOBER 2019 13 Kayvon Thibodeaux (left) made news when he visited Florida A&M University, an HBCU—but he ultim ...

14 OCTOBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC DISPATCHES statement of an organization called the Power Moves Initiative. “However, Afri- can Amer ...

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16 OCTOBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC DISPATCHES N THE AFTERNOON of July 3, the day before President Don- ald Trump’s rained-on Independe ...

THE ATLANTIC OCTOBER 2019 17 the woman who later greeted me with a bear hug when we met in the lobby of a Days Inn near her home ...