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The Atlantic The Reagan Family’s Secret Battle Over the AIDS Crisis The former first lady fought the most conservative elements of the Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic. It wasn’t enough. , Simon & Schuster 2021. In mid-1981 the U.S. Center for Disease Control noticed a set of medical curiosities: an alert from Los Angeles that five previously healthy young men had come down with a rare, fatal lung infection; almost simultane...

The Atlantic Biden Chooses Prosperity Over Vengeance The future of American democracy depends on the president’s ability to show that even when the Republican Party loses, Americans who vote Republican do not. March 15, 2021 Donald Trump was a punishment. Conservatives saw him that way, and Trump saw himself that way, too. After his upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, some conservatives started to respond to any perceived liberal excess with a simple phrase: “This is wh...