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Cover Story

Elinor Carucci for The Atlantic

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science

Michael Scherer

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Features

photo of roadside red Jollibee sign with smiling bee, Drive-Thru, and open 24 hours on it, with bright blue sky and clouds in background — Sonny Thakur for The Atlantic

Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?

A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them.

Yasmin Tayag

illustration of concentric outlines of a human head in red, white, and green receding into black background — Adam Maida

They Killed My Source

A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

Shane Harris

photo of fighter jet with German markings on concrete pad, behind a tree, with long building behind and stormy gray skies — Hannes Jung for The Atlantic

The New German War Machine

After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.

Isaac Stanley-Becker

photo with a double exposure, one of a man sitting in his living room next to a guitar with a hazy overlay of a 17th-century landscape painting — Nasuna Stuart-Ulin for The Atlantic

What if Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do?

The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow

Gal Beckerman

Dispatches

Illustration by Ben Hickey
Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
Rose Horowitch
Illustration by Erik Carter
The Neocons Were Right
Not about Iraq. But the moral tenor of their political writings could be an antidote to Trumpism.
David Brooks
Owen Harvey
By the Horns
Miriam Cabas is one of Spain’s few female bullfighters. What does her success mean for bullfighting, and for Spain?
Begoña Gómez Urzaiz

Culture & Critics

Illustration by Liz Hart. Source: Kevin Nixon / Classic Rock Magazine / Future Publishing / Getty.
The Great Mystery of Drumming
It’s about the flow of Time, not just keeping the beat.
James Parker
Illustration by Lucas Burtin
The Culture War Comes to the Kitchen
How the politics of food brought together the crunchy left and the trad right
Sophie Gilbert
AGIP / RDA / Everett Collection
What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun
The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst.
Michael O’Donnell
Illustration by Mathieu Larone
The Germans Who Stood Up to Hitler
And the Germans who didn’t
Hillary Kelly

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