~best-of-the-atlanti | Bookmarks (1161)
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What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
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How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and...
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The Impossible Plight of the Pro-Tariff Liberals
They finally got the Democratic Party to listen to them. Then came Trump’s second term.
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Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext
The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions...
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An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
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‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Debut: Les Mis and Six-Figure Checks
The president will attend a fundraiser and a showing of Les Misérables at an institution he...
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Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
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This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
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How the Best Restaurants Can Make You Feel
Keith McNally’s new memoir is full of revelations, but one stands out: His work is an...
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Putin’s Bread and Circus Had Bread
If there’s one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator, it’s never to mess with economic...
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Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the...
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Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
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Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
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Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
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The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
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Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
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The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
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Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized
Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the...
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We’re Back to the ‘Actually’ Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
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The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs
If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.
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How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
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How to Define Old Age
Why would the World Health Organization want to call “old age” a disease?
