2020-03-01_The_Atlantic

VOL. 325–NO. 2 CONTENTS

OF NO PARTY OR CLIQUE

MARCH 2020

Features Cover Story

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The 2020

Disinformation War

Deepfakes, anonymous text

messages, Potemkin local news

sites, and opposition research

on reporters—a field guide to

this year’s election and what it

could do to the country

By McKay Coppins

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The Abortion Doctor

and His Accuser

When a reproductive-rights

activist accused one of the most

respected physicians in the

movement of sexually assaulting

her, everyone quickly took sides.

The divide exposed differences

among women that are typically

expressed only in private.

By Maggie Bullock

The Nuclear Family

was a Mistake

By David Brooks

The family structure we’ve held

up as the cultural ideal for the

past half century has been a catastro-

phe for many. It’s time to figure out

better ways to live together.

The sheltered family of the 1950s has given

way to the stressed family of every decade since.

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ALAMY

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