Ta-Nehisi Coates remembers David Carr, new dietary recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health, how humans are using science to control the weather, The Atlantic's film critic gives his Academy Award predictions, and more...
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Friday, February 20, 2015
What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
GRAEME WOOD
My 2015 Oscar Predictions
The Atlantic's film critic forecasts the winners who will walk the Dolby stage this Sunday, and tips his hat to the worthy candidates the Academy missed, but who shouldn't be forgotten.
CHRISTOPHER ORR
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Can an App Improve Your Financial Health?
A conversation with the head of the Center for Financial Services Innovation
King David
David Carr believed that, through the constant and forceful application of principle, a young knucklehead could bring the heavens to their knees.
TA-NEHISI COATES
Hillary's Hawkishness Could Cost Her the Presidency
Her support for regime change in Iraq enabled terrorists—and lost her the election in 2008. Years later, she championed an ill-fated regime change in Libya. Will it hurt her in 2016?
CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
The Skills Gap: America's Young Workers Are Lagging Behind
New findings suggest that U.S. millennials are far less competent than their peers in Europe and Asia.
MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN
For Less Corporate Fraud, Add Female Executives
Hiring more women for the role of CFO could lead to less tax evasion—and maybe fewer accounting scandals.
GILLIAN B. WHITE
Eggs Are Back: The Elegant Simplicity of the New Diet Guidelines
The 2015 U.S. dietary recommendations were revealed today.
JAMES HAMBLIN
The Science Behind Human-Controlled Weather
Cloud seeding won't solve winter woes, and it probably won't promise clear skies for wedding days, either.
SHIRLEY LI
The Real Marlboro Man
Darrell Winfield, star of the most successful campaign in tobacco history, sold the spirit of the cowboy to American men—and, surprisingly, women too.
ADRIAN SHIRK
Jeb's Foreign-Policy Problem
Bush, like his father and older brother, wants to make the world safe for commerce. It's not a message GOP primary voters are likely to embrace.
PETER BEINART
Video: A Brief History of Contraception
In the 16th century, men used linen condoms laced shut with ribbons.
JACKIE LAY
Photo: What Record-Breaking Snow Really Looks Like
In the past month, a series of snowstorms and Arctic weather fronts have brought bone-chilling temperatures and record-setting snowfall levels to the Northeastern United States.
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