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Ever since Harriet Beecher Stowe helped found the magazine in the spring of 1857, women have been integral to The Atlantic.

During the Cold War, a concerned Eleanor Roosevelt watched Russian influence spread to the world’s “uncommitted nations” and called for a re-dedication to the 'American Dream’ in the April 1961 issue. In our August 1932 issue, Hellen Keller wrote a piece titled “Put Your Husband in the Kitchen,” in the form of humorous Depression-era business advice-giving. 

Can pants be so tight that they cause blood clots, or back pain? Katie Heaney asks the most pressing questions in Are Skinny Jeans Going to Kill Me?

From Teresa Mathew’s piece on the India’s first transgender school.

"When India's first transgender school, Sahaj, was inaugurated on December 30, 2016, media organizations reported that it had 10 students and intended to offer accredited online classes through the National Institute of Open Schooling as well as vocational training to trans dropouts in their 20s and 30s. It was the first school of its kind in India, and the first time the Catholic Church had gotten involved in such a capacity with the issue of transgender education.

From Molly Ball’s feature on Kellyanne Conway in the March 2017 issue: 

When Conway’s critics pile on, she just keeps spinning. “She can stand in the breach and take incoming all day long,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, told me. “That’s something you can’t coach.” She’s figured out that she doesn’t need to win the argument. All she has to do is craft a semi-plausible (if not entirely coherent) counternarrative, so that those who don’t want to look past the facade of Trump’s Potemkin village don’t have to.

Can Wall Street save Trump from himself? William D. Cohen asks in the March 2017 issue. 

WATCH: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the perspective that comes with motherhood.

WATCH: Bill Nye on the nature of regret.

From David Wise’s cover story, The President and the Press in the April 1973 issue: 

WATCH: Chimamanda Adichie on what Americans get wrong about Africa.

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