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APRIL 2020 THEATLANTIC.COM How to Destroy a Government The president is winning his war on American institutions By George Packe ...

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VOL. 325–NO. 3 CONTENTS OF NO PARTY OR CLIQUE APRIL 2020 Features 28 Something in the Water Opposition to water fluoridation, wh ...

Front Dispatches Culture & Critics Back 76 OMNIVORE The Reigning Master of Family Drama Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, his ...

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6 APRIL 2020 THE Behind the Cover: Art directors at The Atlantic are asked, with some regularity these days, to perform symbolic ...

7 COMMONS DISCUSSION & DEBATE editorial offices & correspondence Th e Atlantic considers unsolicited manuscripts, fi cti ...

PARTNERING TO ACCELERATE THE SPEED OF RESEARCH Learn more about accelerating Alzheimer’s research at alz.org/speed As the larges ...

9 DISPATCHES OPENING ARGUMENT CAPITALISM’S ADDICTION PROBLEM Th e biggest, best-known companies in the digital economy are getti ...

10 APRIL 2020 Dispatches it; opportunity, too, can be widened by smart public choices. Fixing the system will not be easy, but w ...

ILLUSTRATION BY MIKEL JASO / RENDERING BY BORJA ALEGRE 11 OPENING ARGUMENT tires—to guide him to the best deal. Some of us appre ...

Dispatches OPENING ARGUMENT 12 APRIL 2020 they sell their wares from a website or a brick-and-mortar store. And if we’re not qui ...

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14 Dispatches APRIL 2020 SKETCH “I’ll tell you a funny story,” said Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University. It was th ...

ILLUSTRATION BY ARINZE STANLEY 15 officer. The benefits of the improved balance sheet can be seen across campus. Accord- ing to ...

16 APRIL 2020 Dispatches SKETCH In his own department of bio- logical sciences, despite the campuswide improvement in the studen ...

17 Dispatches MATERIAL WORLD wo years ago, while trying to rent and furnish a new apartment, I was defeated repeated ly by the a ...