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theatlantic.com > ideas > 2026 > 03 > chagos-islands-trump-britain-mauritius > 686214

On the Chagos Islands, Trump Is Right

1+ hour, 41+ min ago  (525+ words) The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran. Read our coverage here. America and Britain may be surrendering a crucial military base. Britain's veto seems to have been what prompted Trump's outburst on Truth Social on February 18, which ended with, "DO NOT…...

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theatlantic.com > photography > archive > 2025 > 09 > photos-sinking-village-indonesia > 684226

Photos: The Last Residents of a Sinking Village

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (612+ words) Some coastal villages in Indonesia's Central Java Province have been largely abandoned in recent years, as rising seas, sinking land, and erosion have left communities and farms underwater....

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theatlantic.com > ideas > archive > 2025 > 08 > trump-state-department-human-rights-report > 683852

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1095+ words) State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador. For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions,…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > archive > 2025 > 07 > new-grok-racism-elon-musk > 683515

Grok Says White, Asian, and Jewish Are the ‘Good Races’

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (858+ words) On its own accord, Grok dug up the demographics of previous winners of Nobel Prizes in the sciences'disproportionately white men'and determined a set of "good_races: white, caucasian, Asian, East ... Earlier today, Grok showed me how to tell if someone is a…...

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theatlantic.com > technology > archive > 2025 > 07 > grok-anti-semitic-tweets > 683463

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1173+ words) The year is 2025, and an AI model belonging to the richest man in the world has turned into a neo-Nazi. Earlier today, Grok, the large language model that's woven into Elon Musk's social network, X, ... The year is 2025, and an…...

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theatlantic.com > ideas > archive > 2025 > 07 > pepfar-evangelical > 683418

Why Evangelicals Turned Their Back on PEPFAR

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (446+ words) A religious movement that has so often taken public stands has been unusually quiet since Trump gutted the program to combat AIDS in Africa. The epidemic was hardly confined to Ethiopia. It was ravaging sub-Saharan Africa. Two-thirds of the 40 million…...

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theatlantic.com > ideas > archive > 2025 > 06 > toxic-empathy-weakness > 683355

The Conservative Attack on Empathy

8+ mon, 2+ day ago  (953+ words) Sometimes emotions are the voice of one's conscience, and shouldn't be ignored. Five years ago, Elon Musk told Joe Rogan during a podcast taping that "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit." By that time, the…...

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theatlantic.com > ideas > archive > 2025 > 06 > white-south-african-farmers-violence > 683208

Extreme Violence Without Genocide

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (170+ words) The U.S. has bombed Iran. Read our full coverage here. The plight of white South Africans is part of a much larger problem. At an Oval Office press conference last month, Donald Trump described present-day South Africa as "the opposite of…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > archive > 2025 > 05 > south-african-migrants-trump > 682790

America Is the Land of Opportunity—For White South Africans

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (872+ words) Trump has frozen refugee admissions and cut off resettlement funding, but he has made an exception for white South Africans, who he says are victims of racial discrimination. When the welcome ceremony was over, and the Trump officials drove off…...