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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also closed sharply lower. </span><span>It was the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/global-stock-markets-tanking-china-1000-points/402130/" target="_blank" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'1',r'402289'">second straight day of losses</a> for the markets, and it comes amid growing unease about the health of the Chinese economy.</span></p> <p><strong>Donald Trump’s No-Apology Tour:</strong> The Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/donald-trump-is-not-sorry/402295/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'2',r'402289'">refused</a> to say he was sorry for his latest comments about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, even after the head of the television network demanded an apology.</p> <p><strong>What Makes Mayo Real: </strong>The FDA sent a warning letter to the makers of Just Mayo, a vegan mayo spread. The product, the food regulation agency said, cannot be called mayonnaise because it’s missing a key ingredient: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/08/the-true-meaning-of-mayonnaise/402286/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'3',r'402289'">eggs</a>.</p> <hr><h3>Snapshot</h3> <figure style="max-width: 630.0px;"><picture style="position:relative; width:100%; height:0; overflow:hidden; padding-bottom:66.6666666667%;"><img alt="" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/08/snapshot-1/fb077c941.jpg" class="lazyload" style="position:absolute; width:100%; height:100%; top:0; left:0; border:0;"></picture><figcaption class="caption">Photographer Carlos Barria holds a print of a photograph he took in 2005, matching it up 10 years on at the same location in Lafitte, south of New Orleans, on August 16, 2015. The print shows Tyler Teal cleaning up his home after Hurricane Katrina struck. For more images of New Orleans 10 years after the hurricane, please <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/08/new-orleans-10-years-after-katrina/402277/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'4',r'402289'">visit <em>The Atlantic </em>Photo</a>. (Carlos Barria / Reuters)</figcaption></figure><hr><h3>Quoted</h3> <p><strong>Matt Kaliner: </strong><span>“Although I study the sociology of art, amongst other things, I have not worked up anything particularly deep about sandcastles. I am motivated entirely by the sheer joy of playing on the beach, and making something out of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/radical-sandcastles/402139/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'5',r'402289'">what I can find that day</a>.”</span></p> <p><strong>Mark Solms: </strong><span>“There can’t be a mind for neuroscience and a mind for psychoanalysis. There’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/neuroscience-psychoanalysis-casey-schwartz-mind-fields/401999/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'6',r'402289'">only one human mind</a>.”</span></p> <p><strong>Jeffrey Rouse: </strong><span>“I had a backpack, my gun, medical supplies, everything I needed to be completely self-sufficient. I thought I was going to come in and do trauma debriefing and all those <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/katrina-coroner-jeffrey-rouse/402220/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'7',r'402289'">highfalutin things</a>.”</span></p> <hr><h3>News Quiz</h3> <p>1. Recent profit reports suggest that the electronics retailer <span>__________</span> , plagued by competition from online sellers, is making a comeback.</p> <p>(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/is-best-buy-making-a-comeback/402256/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'8',r'402289'">See answer</a> or scroll to the bottom.)</p> <p>2. A 12-year-old boy accidentally tripped and punched a hole into a <span>__________</span> during a visit to a museum.</p> <p>(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/taiwan-painting-punch/402253/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'9',r'402289'">See answer</a> or scroll to the bottom).</p> <p>3. A wealthy white lawyer has spent the last 16 years turning a Louisiana plantation into a <span> </span><span>__________.</span></p> <p><span>(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/402172/the-only-american-museum-about-slavery/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'10',r'402289'">See answer</a> or scroll to the bottom).</span></p> <hr><h3>Evening Read</h3> <p>Constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman calls on the Supreme Court to force Congress to define the aims and limits of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/supreme-court-and-isis/402155/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'11',r'402289'">war on ISIS</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>The biggest casualty in the struggle against the Islamic State so far has been the American Constitution. One year into the battle, the president and Congress threaten to destroy all serious restraints against open-ended war-making by the commander-in-chief. President Obama waited for half a year before even submitting a draft resolution authorizing his initiative. But it is now obvious that the Republican-controlled Congress finds it politically convenient to stand on the sidelines and let Obama take the blame for the escalating instability. That leaves only the Supreme Court to halt this transformation of the president into a latter-day King George III.</span></p> </blockquote> <hr><h3>Reader Response</h3> <p dir="ltr"><span><span>Commenter </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/bush-and-trump/402184/#comment-2212663655" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'12',r'402289'"><span>Asurbanopal</span></a><span> on whether </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/bush-and-trump/402184/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'13',r'402289'"><span>Jeb Bush should go after Donald Trump</span></a><span>:</span></span></p> <blockquote> <p dir="ltr"><span><span>I’ve been somewhat shocked by how inept and milquetoast Jeb Bush has proven to be. He’s not a great campaigner and his personality makes Romney look fluid and personable. His big brain and grasp of issues at this point look vastly overstated. He’s a famous last name and a tidal wave of money but otherwise I see nothing but negatives. He’s been out of politics for a decade, and David Frum even acknowledges there’s some bloody skeletons in his closet that haven’t even surfaced yet. Apparently Frum believes Hillary Clinton will be nice about it, by some “mutually assured destruction” odd logic. That boat’s sailed, pal.</span></span></p> </blockquote> <hr><h3>Verbs</h3> <p>National Parks <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://time.com/4009638/free-national-parks/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'14',r'402289'">celebrate</a>, thousands of Ferguson warrants <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/08/judges-order-overhauls-fergusons-municipal-courts/402232/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'15',r'402289'">withdrawn</a>, and black holes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://qz.com/487418/stephen-hawking-explains-how-to-escape-a-black-hole/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'16',r'402289'">explained</a>.</p> <hr><p><small><span style="text-transform:uppercase;">Answers: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/is-best-buy-making-a-comeback/402256/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'17',r'402289'">best buy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/taiwan-painting-punch/402253/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'18',r'402289'">17th-century oil painting</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/402172/the-only-american-museum-about-slavery/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'19',r'402289'">slavery museum</a></span></small></p> <hr></section> </div> <div class="article-tools fluid-container"> <ul class="article-links"> <li class="continue-reading"> <a href="#">Continue Reading</a> </li> <li><a href="#disqus_thread">Jump to Comments</a></li> <li class="authors-about"> <a href="#about-the-authors" data-omni-click="inherit">About the Authors</a> </li> </ul> <ul class="social-icons round color"> <li> <div class="share-count facebook"></div> <a href="#" class="social-icon facebook" data-share="facebook" data-omni-click="r'article',r' ',d,r'fb',r' ',r'402289 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Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for <i>The New Yorker</i> about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word <i>violate</i> (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education </i>describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/thats-not-funny/399335/">article</a> in this month’s issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke.</p>  </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'384980.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/2015/02/ISIS_Web_feature2/hero_wide_640.jpg?1429715843" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">AP/The Atlantic</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">What ISIS Really Wants</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/graeme-wood/" title="Graeme Wood">Graeme Wood</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.</p> <div class="excerpt"> <p class="dropcap"><span class="caps"><span class="smallcaps">What is the Islamic State</span>? </span></p>  <p>Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, <i>The New York Times</i> published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.</p>  </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/jk-rowling-harry-potter-fanfiction-george-lucas-star-wars/403669/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'403669.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/09/hp/hero_wide_640.jpg?1441299681" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">Warner Bros.</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">Harry Potter and the Never-Ending Story</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-sims/" title="David Sims">David Sims</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">In continuing to tinker with the universe she built eight years after it ended, J.K. Rowling might be falling into the same trap as Star Wars’s George Lucas.</p> <div class="excerpt"> <p>September 1st, 2015 marked a curious footnote in <em>Harry Potter </em>marginalia: According to the series’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Dating_conventions">elaborate timeline</a>, rarely referenced in the books themselves, it was the day James S. Potter, Harry’s eldest son, started school at Hogwarts. It’s not an event directly written about in the books, nor one of particular importance, but their creator, J.K. Rowling, dutifully <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/638778021663666176">took to Twitter</a> to announce what amounts to footnote details: that James was sorted into House Gryffindor, just like his father, to the disappointment of Teddy Lupin, Harry’s godson, apparently a Hufflepuff.</p>   <p>It’s not earth-shattering information that Harry’s kid would end up in the same house his father was in, and the <em>Harry Potter</em> series’s insistence on sorting all of its characters into four broad personality quadrants largely based on their family names has always struggled to stand up to scrutiny. Still, Rowling’s tweet prompted <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.salon.com/2015/09/02/j_k_rowlings_harry_potter_trivia_tweets_changing_the_role_of_author_140_characters_at_a_time/">much garment-rending</a> among the books’ devoted fans. Can a tweet really amount to a piece of canonical information for a book? There isn’t much harm in Rowling providing these little embellishments years after her books were published, but even idle tinkering can be a dangerous path to take, with the obvious example being the insistent tweaks wrought by George Lucas on his <em>Star Wars </em>series.</p>  </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/jk-rowling-harry-potter-fanfiction-george-lucas-star-wars/403669/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/countries-difficult-visas-travel/403267/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'403267.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/09/Somalia/hero_wide_640.jpg?1441144979" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">AMISOM Public Information / Flickr</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">The Hardest Places in the World to Visit</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/albert-podell/" title="Albert Podell">Albert Podell</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">I traveled to every country on earth. In some cases, the adventure started before I could get there.<br/> </p> <div class="excerpt"> <p>Last summer, my Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca landed at Malabo International Airport in Equatorial Guinea, and I completed a 50-year mission: I had officially, and legally, visited every recognized country on earth.</p>  <p>This means 196 countries: the 193 members of the United Nations, plus Taiwan, Vatican City, and Kosovo, which are not members but are, to varying degrees, recognized as independent countries by other international actors.</p>   <p>In five decades of traveling, I’ve crossed countries by rickshaw, pedicab, bus, car, minivan, and bush taxi; a handful by train (Italy, Switzerland, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, and Greece); two by riverboat (Gabon and Germany); Norway by coastal steamer; Gambia and the Amazonian parts of Peru and Ecuador by motorized canoe; and half of Burma by motor scooter. I rode completely around Jamaica on a motorcycle and Nauru on a bicycle. I’ve also crossed three small countries on foot (Vatican City, San Marino, and Liechtenstein), and parts of others by horse, camel, elephant, llama, and donkey. I confess that I have not visited every one of the 7,107 islands in the Philippine archipelago or most of the more than 17,000 islands constituting Indonesia, but I’ve made my share of risky voyages on the rickety inter-island rustbuckets you read about in the back pages of the <i>Times</i> under headlines like “Ship Sinks in Sulu Sea, 400 Presumed Lost.”</p>  </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/countries-difficult-visas-travel/403267/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/mommy-bloggers-money/402535/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'402535.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/08/2684043162_bba892e0f7_o/hero_wide_640.jpg?1440698797" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">Josh Hallett / Flickr</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">Can Mommy Bloggers Still Make a Living?</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/olga-khazan/" title="Olga Khazan">Olga Khazan</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">Heather Armstrong’s <em>Dooce</em> once drew millions of readers. Her blog’s semi-retirement speaks to the challenges of earning money as an individual blogger today.</p> <div class="excerpt"> <p>The success story of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://dooce.com/">Dooce.com</a> was once blogger lore, told and re-told in playgroups and Meetups—anywhere hyper-verbal people with Wordpress accounts gathered. “It happened for that Dooce lady,” they would say. “It could happen for your blog, too.”</p>  <p>Dooce has its origin in the late 1990s, when a young lapsed Mormon named Heather Armstrong taught herself HTML code and moved to Los Angeles. She got a job in web design and began blogging about her life on her personal site, Dooce.com.</p>  <p>The site’s name evolved out of her friends’ AOL Instant-Messenger slang for dude, or its more incredulous cousin, "doooood!” About a year later, Armstrong was fired for writing about her co-workers on the site—an experience that, for a good portion of the ‘aughts, came known as “getting <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dooced">dooced</a>.” She eloped with her now ex-husband, Jon, moved to Salt Lake City, and eventually started blogging full time again.</p>  </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/mommy-bloggers-money/402535/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/rubble-palmyra-syria-isis/403921/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'403921.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/09/Syria/hero_wide_640.jpg?1441390560" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">SANA / AP</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">The Rubble of Palmyra</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/leon-wieseltier/" title="Leon Wieseltier">Leon Wieseltier</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">ISIS did not merely blast apart old stones—it attacked the very foundations of pluralistic society.</p> <div class="excerpt"> <p>If the ruined ruins of Palmyra could speak, they would marvel at our shock. After all, they have been sacked before. In their mute and shattered eloquence, they spoke for centuries not only about the cultures that built them but also about the cultures that destroyed them—about the fragility of civilization itself, even when it is incarnated in stone. No designation of sanctity, by God or by UNESCO, suffices to protect the past. The past is helpless. Instead these ruins, all ruins, have had the effect of lifting the past out of history and into time. They carry the spectator away from facts and toward reveries.</p>  <p>In the 18th century, after the publication in London of <em>The Ruins of Palmyra</em>, a pioneering volume of etchings by Robert Wood, who had traveled to the Syrian desert with the rather colorful James Dawkins, a fellow antiquarian and politician, the desolation of Palmyra became a recurring symbol for ephemerality and the vanity of all human endeavors. “It is the natural and common fate of cities,” Wood dryly remarked in one of the essays in his book, “to have their memory longer preserved than their ruins.” Wood’s beautiful and meticulous prints served as inspirations for paintings, and it was in response to one of those paintings that Diderot wrote some famous pages in his great <em>Salons of 1767</em>: “The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, everything passes, only the world remains, only time endures. ... Wherever I cast my glance, the objects surrounding me announce death and compel my resignation to what awaits me. What is my ephemeral existence in comparison with that of a rock being worn down, of a valley being formed, of a forest that’s dying, of these deteriorating masses suspended above my head? I see the marble of tombs crumble into powder and I don’t want to die!”</p> </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/rubble-palmyra-syria-isis/403921/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/clinton-2016-has-never-made-sense-for-democrats/401597/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'401597.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/09/hillary_clinton/hero_wide_640.jpg?1441092532" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">Craig Lassig / Reuters</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">‘Hillary 2016’ Has Never Made Sense for Democrats</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/conor-friedersdorf/" title="Conor Friedersdorf">Conor Friedersdorf</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">Why haven’t more challengers entered the race to defeat the Iraq War hawk, Patriot Act supporter, and close friend of big finance?</p> <div class="excerpt"> <p><span style="line-height: 1.66667;">As Hillary Clinton loses ground to Bernie Sanders in Iowa, where her lead shrinks by the day, it’s worth noticing that she has never made particular sense as the Democratic Party’s nominee. She</span><span style="line-height: 1.66667;"> may </span>be more<span style="line-height: 1.66667;"> electable than her social-democratic rival from Vermont, but plenty of Democrats are better </span>positioned<span style="line-height: 1.66667;"> to represent the center-left coalition. Why have they let the former secretary of state keep them out of the race? </span>If Clinton makes it to the general election, I understand why most Democrats will support her. She shares their views on issues as varied as preserving Obamacare, abortion rights, extending legal status to undocumented workers, strengthening labor unions, and imposing a carbon tax to slow climate change.</p>  </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/clinton-2016-has-never-made-sense-for-democrats/401597/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/2016-election/384828/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'384828.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/09/AP_193120642860/hero_wide_640.jpg?1441230522" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">David Goldman / AP</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-a-graham/" title="David A. Graham">David A. Graham</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">It’s not just Trump: With Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina on the rise, Republicans are loving outsiders and shunning politicians.</p> <div class="excerpt"> <p>For the first time in a long time, Donald Trump isn’t the most interesting story in the 2016 presidential race. That's partly because his dominance in the Republican polls, while still surprising, is no longer novel and increasingly well explored and explained, but it’s also partly because what’s going on with the rest of the GOP field is far more interesting.</p>  <p>It’s a topsy-turvy world. Take Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina to start. Carson’s campaign has been up and down, with occasional turbulence on his staff. But despite foolish reporters <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/what-happened-to-ben-carson/399794/">writing him off</a>, Carson has been on fire since the first GOP debate on August 6. According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html"><em>RealClearPolitics</em>’ average of national polls</a>, he’s now running a solid second, behind Trump. In Iowa, he’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/252319-poll-trump-carson-tied-for-lead-in-iowa">tied</a> or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://gravismarketing.com/polling-and-market-research/current-iowa-polling-2/?utm_source=Copy%20of%20Copy%20of%20Iowa%20Poll2&utm_campaign=Recent%20Iowa%20Poll..&utm_medium=email">just a hair behind</a> the man with the hair. Meanwhile, his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b1b258d789224c5bb31ead500cad58a5/ben-carson-campaign-reaping-cash-he-rises-gop-polls">fundraising remains strong</a>.</p>  </div> </div> <a class="read-more" href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/2016-election/384828/" data-omni-click="inherit"> Continue Reading </a> </li> <li class="most-popular-article "> <a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-junk-food-can-end-obesity/309396/" class="article-link" data-omni-click="r'.',r' ',d,r'mostpop',$li,r'309396.'"> <figure class="lead-img"> <img data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905074324/http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/2013/06/05/0713-WEL-Freedman-bar/hero_wide_640.jpg?1429716827" class="lazyload"> <figcaption class="credit">Dan Saelinger</figcaption> </figure> <h3 class="hed">How Junk Food Can End Obesity</h3> </a> <ul class="metadata"> <li class="byline"><a href="/web/20150905074324/http://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-h-freedman/" title="David H. Freedman">David H. Freedman</a></li> </ul> <div class="article-content "> <p class="dek">Demonizing processed food may be dooming many to obesity and disease. Could embracing the drive-thru make us all healthier?</p> <div class="excerpt"> <p> <span class="smallcaps">Late last year, </span>in a small health-food eatery called Cafe Sprouts in Oberlin, Ohio, I had what may well have been the most wholesome beverage of my life. The friendly server patiently guided me to an apple-blueberry-kale-carrot smoothie-juice combination, which she spent the next several minutes preparing, mostly by shepherding farm-fresh produce into machinery. 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