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What Sets Trump Apart from History's Worst Dictators WHY TRUMP LIES THE END OF GIRLS THE GOP’S ANTI-PROTEST LAWS APRIL 2017 What sets Trump apart from history’s worst dictators WHY BLUE STATES SHOULD EXIT RED AMERICA HOW POLICE TRIED TO BUST A REFUGEE SMUGGLER—AND GOT THE WRONG MAN DISCOVER WONDER. The #1 New York Times Bestseller “ A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.” —New York Times Book Review “ Fair warning: It’s addictive.” —NPR, “Cosmos & Culture” “ Odds are you won’t get past three pages without being amazed at something truly strange that you didn’t know existed.” —San Francisco Chronicle “ A great peek into the world’s hidden corners and most remote tourist traps. Keep one in your library and one in your glove box.” —Vox “ Atlas Obscura is a joyful antidote to the creeping suspicion that travel these days is little more than a homogenized corporate shopping opportunity. Bestest travel guide ever.” —Mary Roach nspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, I Atlas Obscura celebrates the most curious destinations around the globe. With compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, and surprising charts and maps, it takes you to the far corners of our strange and marvelous world. Even if you never leave home. Available now, wherever books are sold. WORKMAN PUBLISHING • NEW YORK workman.com • atlasobscura.com AtlasObscura_NewRepublicAd_3.indd 1 2/17/17 9:35 AM contents APRIL 2017 UP FRONT 6 Trump’s Fuzzy Border Math 18 Meet the far-right “think tank” pushing to ban immigration. BY LAURA RESTON 8 The Anti-Protest Backlash Republican lawmakers are trying to criminalize dissent. BY CLIO CHANG 9 The Trump Tweetometer A highly precise quantitative analysis of last month’s presidential tweets. 10 Why Lying Is So Easy for Trump For New York developers, deception is good for business. BY BEN ADLER 12 Trump vs. Warren Why is a so-called populist dismantling the cfpb? BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK COLUMNS 14 Trump’s Brain Think Steve Bannon is calling the shots? Think again. BY MATTHEW PHELAN It’s Time for Bluexit 16 Don’t Stop the Press! Why the media should become a true What would the United States look like without us? “opposition party.” BY LEAH FINNEGAN A declaration of independence from Trump’s America. BY KEVIN BAKER REVIEW 44 They Could Be Heroes Today’s biggest novelists are throwbacks to a simpler time. BY SAM SACKS 26 34 50 Girls, Interrupted How Lena Dunham defied expectations Before the Ban Amazing Disgrace and remade TV. BY SARAH MARSHALL One family’s journey from Iraq to How a thrice-married, biblically Ohio—and how their life has changed illiterate sexual predator hijacked 56 Voices of America Can podcasts tell us more than stories of under Trump. TEXT BY ATOSSA ARAXIA the religious right. individual obsession? BY MICHELLE DEAN ABRAHAMIAN | PHOTOS BY HOLLY PICKETT BY SARAH POSNER 58 Yes All Women Feminists do not have to be ideologically pure to be radical. BY MAGGIE DOHERTY 61 The Night Shift 38 52 The true cause of our sleeplessness The General and the All-American Tyrant epidemic. BY JACOB SILVERMAN Refugee It may be comforting to compare 64 Backstory PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTIA VACCA Police from four countries joined forces Trump to dictators like Hitler and to bring down a notorious human Stalin. But to understand the threat he smuggler. Here’s how they blew the poses, we must look more deeply into operation. BY ERIC REIDY our own past. BY JEET HEER PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: SHUTTERSTOCK ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO COVER ILLUSTRATION BY ROBERTO PARADA APRIL 2017 | 1 contributors Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a Brooklyn-based journalist whose work Editor in Chief has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, Dissent, and The Win McCormack Nation. 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