The Atlantic - 09.2019

58 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC them to survive a normally lethal siege of antibiotics. These per- sister bacteria, Zhang’s team ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 59 In 2018, my father died of complications from pneumonia, after recovering from the cancer. I coul ...

60 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC T HE LESS WE UNDERSTAND about a disease, as Susan Sontag argued years ago in Illness as Metaphor, ...

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ILLUSTRATION BY ARINZE STANLEY BY BEN R HODES W H AT H A PPENED TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI? She was a human-rights icon, a secular sain ...

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64 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC ICON The first time I met Aung San Suu Kyi, she embodied hope. It was November 2012, and we w ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 65 Muslims have been forced across the border to Bangla desh, into refugee camps, where disease is r ...

66 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC ethnic groups. But in 1947, he was assassinated at the age of 32. Unlike Mao Zedong or Jawaharlal ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 67 The NLD won the 1990 election in a landslide, but the junta ignored the results. Over the next tw ...

68 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC individuals to apply for citizenship—but the government would issue citizen ship cards only to th ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 69 S TATE COUNSELOR In the summer of 2016, I once again met with Suu Kyi in Naypyi- daw. Now she ...

70 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about his horses, and Representative Joe Crowley of ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 71 complained that the West did not probe beneath Suu Kyi’s rheto- ric about human rights. “Your gov ...

72 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC that they are from Myanmar. “You have the same issue in the southern United States,” he said. “If ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 73 nation al security adviser, echoing his American counterpart, John Bolton, dismisses the Internat ...

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76 SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ATLANTIC “You ever chop before?” Willena Scott-White was testing me. I sat with her in the cab of a Chevy ...

THE ATLANTIC SEPTEMBER 2019 77 Above: Willena Scott-White’s son Joseph White cutting grass at the edge of a fi eld on Scott-fami ...