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H. Armstrong Roberts / Retrofile / Getty A Farewell to Up for Debate
This newsletter is coming to an end, but my inbox stays open to all of you.
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Homer Sykes / Alamy Readers Share the State of Their Local Journalism
“It is painful to watch as our once-proud newspaper has become a shell nearly devoid of meaningful content,” one reader says.
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Sam Wolfe / Bloomberg / Getty Why the Media Shouldn’t Write Nikki Haley Off
Plus: A revisionist history of Beavis and Butt-Head
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Millennium Images / … Readers on the Morality of Pornography
“I regard pornography as the fast food of sex: A little bit here and there won’t hurt anyone, but it’s not something to consume regularly,” one reader argues.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock Is Pornography Immoral?
Plus: Malaise among Americans
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Coneyl Jay / … Readers Share Their Most Misunderstood Views
Voting age, atheism, abortion, language education, and more
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Coneyl Jay / Getty What Conversations About DEI Are Missing
Plus: Is declining fertility a failure of capitalism?
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Adam Glanzman / The New York Times / … Readers’ Toughest Questions for University Presidents
Contending with higher education in America
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Adam Glanzman / The New York Times / … The Debate That Claudine Gay Is Evading
Plus: An argument for life after death
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Archive Photos / … How Teens Spend Their Free Time
“I’ll take my kid playing PlayStation all night over getting drunk and driving around, that’s for sure,” one reader says.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Gallery Stock Reader Views on Gender-Divided Social Spaces
“Gender defined every generation until Gen X,” one reader argues. “It has been both challenging and wonderful to see those barriers become more permeable.”
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Julio Gamboa / Gallery Stock The Role of Gender Divides in Social Spaces
Plus: A theory of the baby bust
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: PYMCA / Avalon … Where Teens Used to Hang Out
Readers share stories of social life before technology took over.
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PYMCA / Avalon / Getty The Decline of Teen Hangouts
Plus: The case for making walls stone again
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Fadel Senna / … Readers on the Foreign-Policy Issues That Matter to Them
Countering “dangerous movements at home might be the most productive thing we can do to maintain a convincing voice abroad,” one reader argues.
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Fadel Senna / AFP / Getty The Debate Over What Happens Next in the Middle East
Plus: What foreign-policy matters are most important to you and why?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Tom Stoddart Archive … Has Alcohol Left Humanity Better or Worse Off?
“At this point in my life, the pros outweigh the cons,” one reader argued.
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Tom Stoddart Archive / Getty What Has Alcohol’s Existence Done to Humans?
Plus: extremism on both the left and the right
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llustration by The Atlantic. Source: Ronen Tivony / … How to Talk About the Middle East
“Rather than weakening us, doubt can provide strength and resilience,” one reader argues.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Michael Nigro / … There’s No Third Rail Like the Middle East
How should citizens outside the region handle their differences of opinion?
