Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In “The Lesson,” from our October 2003 issue, Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

these aren’t the same. After weeks of heat, it rained the day the governor said to take it down. a man who ran shot in the back. The broke and broken schools remain. Not birds, not thorns, not the ...

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This poem is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is still processing the Vietnam War. To learn more about the topic, watch the 10-part documentary “The Vietnam ...

(Correction: This story was updated and edited to correct an inaccuracy. Cassie Phillips, 32, the author of the poem "Let Them," was misidentified as another person with the same name.) This week my ...

One of the most striking elements of the protests taking place around the country this week have been the signs—signs that warn, signs that rage, signs that joke, signs that manage, wittily, to do a ...

Trans pain is currently a certainty. Trans beauty is currently an inevitability . When I am asked about my genitals on a daily basis, It is not my fault when I start getting creative with my answers.

Here is a Take 5 Mini-Lesson that makes it quick and easy to share this poem! Build on the simile in Blackaby’s first stanza (“Scientists are like explorers . . . ”), and identify some famous ...

Discuss the British perception of India and Britain’s role in the subcontinent Examine the methods used by the British to establish and then maintain control of India. To the British, India served as ...