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The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.

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After years of trying to improve his hospital in Riverton, Wyoming—first as a doctor, then as a board member and volunteer ...

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“Capital punishment operates according to an emotional logic,” staff writer Elizabeth Bruenig writes in her July cover story for The Atlantic.. “Vengeance is elemental. Injustice cries out for redress ...

Liz’s motivations for pursuing this specific journalistic practice are several: Like many writers, she’s drawn to outsiders, ...

The new “John Wick” spin-off shows that expanding a franchise is harder than it may seem.