Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel's deeply-reported piece about the events leading up to this weekend's drama; paywall-free link # | Continue reading
By the same criteria you could say the New York Times is a far-right news organization. Whatever the story is about Twitter, it’s still developing. Journalism should be as rigorous in deciphering the intentions of journalism. | Continue reading
Republicans thought about running without Trump in 2024—but lost their nerve. They’re heading for electoral disaster again. | Continue reading
When financial panic looms, reporters need to stick to the facts. On September 17, 2008, the Financial Times reporter John Authers decided to run to the bank. In his Citi account was a recently deposited check from the sale of his London apartment.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
At a moment when institutional distrust is surging, there's an urgent need to support civics education. The debate about the role technology plays in society is as old as humankind's ability to use tools and techniques to change our world.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
Liberal democracy in Mexico is under assault. Worse, the attacker is its own president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. "In the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker. Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger." So President Joe Biden declared in his 2023 Sta … | Continue reading
Why Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, and so many other cowards in Congress are still doing Trump’s bidding | Continue reading
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say. Early December might have marked the first time anyone ever asserted a First Amendment right to see the president's son's penis, an argument that the Framers likely did not anticipate.(t … | Continue reading
On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman's alternate universe She was very late. A man named Barry was compelled to lead the room in a rendition of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." to stall for time. But when she did arrive, the tardiness was forgiven and the Cobb County … | Continue reading
Media Winter is here once more, and it is getting ugly. It seems as though every news giant is shrinking toward 2023 through end-of-year layoffs, hiring freezes, or otherwise Dickensian austerity. Text chains and Slack channels are bursting with farewells and expressions of uncer … | Continue reading
Taffy Brodesser-Akner on stress dreams, the beauty of long scenes, and translating her novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, to the small screen. Novelists aren't often given the chance to adapt their own work, let alone creatively control each element of the process.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
The industry’s latest meltdown is not like all the rest. | Continue reading
Twitter would have to become functionally worse, and something else would have to be obviously better. | Continue reading
The company’s CEO explains his decision to close its store in the “city of chaos.” | Continue reading
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world. | Continue reading
Should you wash your hands? Yes. Does it matter for respiratory viruses? Not as much as we once thought. | Continue reading
I self-censored, not because of a direct fear of censorious mobs but because of the way the threats to free speech are now depicted. | Continue reading
Were we always this lonely and embittered? | Continue reading
It’s just missing the 3-D space to virtually hang out in. | Continue reading
To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input. | Continue reading
The line between human and computer play is very hard to find. | Continue reading
Two new books show that movement helps us see the rhythms we all share—whether in the angular works of Martha Graham or in the natural choreographies of daily life. | Continue reading
It’s expensive and time-consuming. But the data prove that kids benefit. | Continue reading
The universe doesn’t care about you. | Continue reading
Kaitlyn Tiffany on how Slack and Giphy hastened the decline of a treasured mode of online expression, the GIF | Continue reading
A museum-security expert admits that “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.” | Continue reading
Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly. | Continue reading
How a Michigan real-estate broker became convinced he had cracked the lottery—and how he tricked his investors into financing his scheme | Continue reading
Learning what the common triggers for eating too much food are and how to manage them is our best defense against expanding waistlines. | Continue reading
Over the past year, it has become evident that there are key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states. | Continue reading
The storied space superpower was already stalling. Then came the Ukraine war. | Continue reading
N95s are good. Some scientists want to do much better. | Continue reading
The story of the Russian mob in Spain—and the detectives who spent years trying to bring them down. | Continue reading
At the peak of their fame, they were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini. | Continue reading
On its fiftieth anniversary, how should we think of the Second World War?What is its contemporary meaning? One possible meaning, reflected in everyline of what follows, is obscured by that oddly minimizing term "conventionalwar." With our fears focused on nuclear destruction, w … | Continue reading
Parody is being threatened right when we need it most. | Continue reading
As an appellate judge, Merrick Garland was known for constructing narrow decisions that achieved consensus without creating extraneous controversy. As a government attorney, he was known for his zealous adherence to the letter of the law. As a person, he is a smaller-than-life fi … | Continue reading
With a bit of science, maybe someday we will all eat pawpaws. | Continue reading
Students need more exposure to the way everyday things work and are made. | Continue reading
The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence. | Continue reading
Accessory dwelling units might just spell the end of the American suburb as we know it—in the best possible way. | Continue reading
What Russian trolls can teach us about American voters | Continue reading
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks. | Continue reading
Misconceptions about pastors, playwrights, postal workers, and other professionals | Continue reading