The Salesman

Experienced, emotional, marked by personal tragedy and political setback, Joe Biden is in many ways the antithesis of the president he serves.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 37 minutes (9,337 words)

Autism’s First Child

Children with autism will become adults with autism, some 500,000 of them in this decade alone. What then? Meet Donald Gray Triplett, 77, of Forest, Mississippi. He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,165 words)

Broken Windows

The police and neighborhood safety

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Mar 1, 1982
Length: 27 minutes (6,789 words)

The Organization Kid

The young men and women of America’s future elite work their laptops to the bone, rarely question authority, and happily accept their positions at the top of the heap as part of the natural order of life

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Apr 1, 2001
Length: 51 minutes (12,912 words)

The Fifty-First State?

Going to war with Iraq would mean shouldering all the responsibilities of an occupying power the moment victory was achieved. These would include running the economy, keeping domestic peace, and protecting Iraq’s borders, and doing it all for years, or perhaps decades. Are we ready for this long-term relationship?

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Nov 1, 2002
Length: 38 minutes (9,715 words)

As We May Think

It is the physicists who have been thrown most violently off stride, who have left academic pursuits for the making of strange destructive gadgets, who have had to devise new methods for their unanticipated assignments. They have done their part on the devices that made it possible to turn back the enemy, have worked in combined effort with the physicists of our allies. They have felt within themselves the stir of achievement. They have been part of a great team. Now, as peace approaches, one asks where they will find objectives worthy of their best.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 1, 1945
Length: 31 minutes (7,904 words)

Prison Without Walls

Incarceration In America Is A Failure By Almost Any Measure. But What If The Prisons Could Be Turned Inside Out, With Convicts Released Into Society Under Constant Electronic Surveillance?

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 26 minutes (6,686 words)

The Point of No Return

For The Obama Administration, The Prospect Of A Nuclearized Iran Is Dismal To Contemplate: It Would Create Major New National-Security Challenges And Crush The President’S Dream Of Ending Nuclear Proliferation.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 39 minutes (9,908 words)

The End of Men

Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 1, 2010
Length: 33 minutes (8,493 words)

The Enemy Within

When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 1, 2010
Length: 34 minutes (8,735 words)