The Atlantic Monthly

Atlantic Monthly Gets It All Wrong About Home Birth

Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Obstetrical Care, Home Births, Women and Childbirth, Childbirth, Parents News

What if the patient had been his hospital birth patient from the start, and had had this exact same labor?

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My Secret to Raising SAT Scores

Meg Campbell | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Sat Prep, Scientific American, The New Yorker, College Board, Education News

My secret advice to raising SAT scores is to read the New Yorker magazine weekly -- or another magazine that is a reach to read because it's written for adults, not teens.

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Interview: Critic Robert Campbell

J. Michael Welton | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, Green Architecture, Taliesin West, Santiago Calatrava, Robert Campbell, Boston, Architecture, Harvard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Milwaukee, Taliesin, Milwaukee Art Museum, Harvard Review, Arts News

Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Robert Campbell is both fearless and sensitive enough to write and publish poetry.

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The Atlantic Becomes Profitable

nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic, The Atlantic Profit, Magazines, The Atlantic Monthly, Media News

The Atlantic, the intellectual's monthly that always seemed more comfortable as an academic exercise than a business, is on track to turn a tidy profi...

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Reflections on the Army, Torture and General Sanchez

Amnesty International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, The Atlantic Monthly, Amnesty International, Human Rights, General Ricardo Sanchez, War on Terror, Politics News

By Geneve Mantri, Government Relations Director, for Terrorism and Counterterrorism and Human Rights It is a cold and icy morning in DC and as I slip...

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Duke v. The Atlantic Monthly: Student Calls Recent Article A 'Hit Piece'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duke, The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan, The Hazards of Duke, Duke University, The Atlantic Monthly, Hazards of Duke, College News

Writer Caitlin Flanagan recently took Duke University to task in the Atlantic Monthly -- and now Duke students are fighting back. The 5,000-odd word ...

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Kids Plus Computers Equals the Perfect Match

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Computer Games, Children, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pew Research Center, Computers, Queen, World of Warcraft II, Rubik's Cube, Parenting, Reading, Learning, Google, Dan Brown, Everquest, Education News

There is an infinite amount of knowledge. Why not soak it up as fast as you can, in a community of online learners, game players, and musicians?

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Fidel's Words Continue to Echo... Bitterly

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Jeffry Goldberg, Raul Castro, Cuban Economic Model, The Cuban Model, The Atlantic, Cuba, Fidel Castro, World News

A relic of crumbling Soviet era architecture along the Malecon, Havana's waterfront boulevard and seawall Exclusive to Huffington Post Rarely does a...

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Does Obama Love Lil Wayne Or What?

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Ipod, Michelle Obama Queen Elizabeth, I Am Not a Human Being, President Obama, Hurricane Ike, Queen Elizabeth, Nas, Obama, Lil Wayne, Music, London, Queen Elizabeth II, Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, The Atlantic Monthly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Entertainment Weekly, Melissa Bell, Reggie Love, Brad Wete, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Jay-Z, Washington Post, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Fallon, Drake, Nba, Naacp, LeBron James, Rap Music, Entertainment News

During a much-discussed Rolling Stone interview, President Obama was asked what's on his iPod. He named artists and bands that reflect an eclectic mix...

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Fidel Castro Joins the Opposition

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Cuba, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, Jeffrey Goldberg, Fidel Castro, World News

To see Fidel Castro acknowledge the failure of "his" political model, makes me feel like I'm watching a scene where an actor gesticulates and raises his voice so that the public won't look away.

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America's Choice: Leave a Legacy of Hell or Bequeath Clean Air

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Waxman-Markey Act, Hell With the Lid Off, Congressional Budget Office, United Steelworkers, Pollution, Pittsburgh, Wind Turbines, James Parton, Sierra Club, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Solar Cells, BlueGreen Alliance, Business News

Labor unions are pressing for passage of policies like a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) and comprehensive climate-change legislation that would promote transition to a clean-energy economy.

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Saving States From Terrorists (or, Stand with Westphalia)

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, fy2010-Budget, Terrorism, Barack Obama Foreign Tour, Yemen Terrorism, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, The Atlantic Monthly, Pakistan Terrorism, Millenium Challenge Corporation, Counterterrorism, Mike Signer, Westphalia, Afghanistan Taliban, Soft Power, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, World News

As we enter a shiny new decade, we should embrace a cozy and decidedly pre-modern tradition: the system of sovereign states that has served us well since the 17th century.

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Gore Vidal Knocks Obama, Says "Anti-Semitism" Got "Poor Polanski"

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The Atlantic, Barack Obama, John Meroney, Roman Polanski, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, Jfk, The Atlantic Monthly, Polanski, Hillary Clinton, Books News

To mark the recent publication of Gore Vidal's memoir, Snapshots in History's Glare, The Atlantic's John Meroney interviewed the American literary and...

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What Really Makes Us Happy And Healthy

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, John F. Kennedy, Full Sweep of Human Life, Ben Bradlee, Keys to Happiness, Grant Study, Alex Benzer, Harvard Men's Study, Lifelong Study of Happiness, Joshua Wolf Shenk, Harvard Men, George Vaillant, Longitudinal Study of Happiness, Happiness Research, What Makes US Happy, Happiness, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

A few days ago I came across a fantastic article by Joshua Wolf Shenk in the Atlantic Monthly on the Grant Study, the longest longitudinal study of happiness ever conducted.

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Quitting Soda Cold Turkey

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Coca-Cola, Nutrition, Soda, New York Times, Cancer, Diet Coke, Nutrasweet, Healthy Living News

This is my coming out party. I, um, drink soda. Specifically, Diet Coke. Sometimes I manage to quit, but then I always come a'crawlin' back.

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Why I Subscribed to My Local Print Newspaper (While Still Loving Online)

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Print Journalism, Humor, Newspaper Circulation, The New York Times, Audio, Alt-Country, Podcast, Newspapers, Newspaper Delivery, Local News, House-Sitting, Death of Newspapers, Local Newspaper, Healthy Living News

Within days, the local newspaper became my mini Facebook. The woman who booked our band to play at the cinema was the paper's movie critic. Writers were friends; friends became writers.

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This Week in Magazines -- Michelle Obama, Extreme Weather and The Grateful Dead

James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Obamamania, Newsweek, Michelle Obama, Chicago Magazine, The Grateful Dead, This Week in Magazines, Media News

The 24-7 Obamamania is upon us and, you'd do well to check very different and generally sober looks at the sure-to-be-self-assured first lady, Michelle Obama.

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Campaign AdWatch: Under The Penumbra

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, John McCain, Jill Greenberg, Barack Obama, Campaign Ads, Politics News

Here's John McCain's latest advertisement, "Foundation." There's nothing in the actual content of the ad that anyone will find original, relative to ...

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It's the Women, Stupid

Lisa Witter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Hillary Clinton, Baby Boomers, Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton 2008, Women Voters, Young Women, Politics News

It's the women, stupid: Did mismanagement lose Senator Clinton's bid for the White House? Or was it Mark Penn's bad strategy to woo women? It's clear...

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The Clinton Saga & Why She Lost

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Atlantic's Josh Green does not come close to proving that nasty infighting caused Clinton's loss. The piece is so far into the weeds that it misses the big, substantive problems that felled Hillary.

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The Media's Problem Of "False Balance" Showing Itself In Electoral Map Analyses

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

What is particularly noteworthy is where the media bias lies: it's a clear willingness to give John McCain (R) the benefit of the doubt, but not Barack Obama (D).

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The Information Age: Not Just Google

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Information Age, Web 2.0, The Atlantic Monthly, Google, Internet, Media News

Google isn't everything; we need to discontinue thinking of Google as the Internet age's umbrella -- its dominance is as much a product of the Internet as our own evolving neuroses.

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