~best-of-the-atlanti | Bookmarks (1152)
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How America Claimed a Breathtaking Fortune at the Bottom of the Ocean
It made itself bigger.
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America Is Now Counting on You, Pete Hegseth
My advice for the incoming secretary of defense
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The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started
Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.
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Trump Bets It All on OpenAI
Earlier this week, he unveiled perhaps the most ambitious infrastructure project in history—and all but dedicated...
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This Movie Understands Difficult People
Hard Truths takes an astonishingly sensitive approach in telling the story of a bitter housewife.
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Evangelicals Made a Bad Trade
Hitching the evangelical wagon to Donald Trump has meant unhitching it from the life and teachings...
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Who Will Stop the Militias Now?
By granting blanket clemency to the January 6 insurrectionists, the president has unleashed violent, and loyal,...
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A Christ-Lite Sermon
Nothing is more Christian than protecting vulnerable immigrants. Why couldn’t Bishop Mariann Budde just say that?
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There Is No Resistance
The response to the January 6 pardons shows that the president faces no effective constraints from...
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Photos of the Week: Fire Fighters, Ice Marathon, Inauguration Day
A fragile cease-fire in Gaza, a lantern festival in China, a rare snowstorm along the American...
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What the Fires Revealed About Los Angeles Culture
The blazes reflect—and exacerbate—the disparities embedded in the most mundane tenets of city life.
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The Myth of a Loneliness Epidemic
Americans may not actually feel more desolate than they did in the past.
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Eric Adams’s Totally Predictable MAGA Turn
A tale of two New York politicians, meant for each other
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January 6ers Got Out of Prison—And Came to My Neighborhood
The strange new reality after Trump’s pardons
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The Paranoid Thriller That Foretold Trump’s Foreign Policy
Some of the president’s policies are stranger than fiction.
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Trump’s First Shot in His War on the ‘Deep State’
The president is punishing a group of former officials for expressing an opinion he didn’t like.
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The Oscars Have Left the Mainstream Moviegoer Behind
The Academy found its nominees on the international film-festival circuit, not at the movie theater.
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Grover Cleveland’s Warning for Trump
A conversation with Russell Berman about the last president to lose, then win, a reelection bid
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MAGA Is Starting to Crack
Now that Trump is president again, the right’s moment of unity is over.
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OpenAI Goes MAGA
Sam Altman has once again put himself in a position of power—this time by sidling up...
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A New Abortion Drug?
A double dose of an emergency-contraception pill may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions...
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