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A Show That Breaks the Curse of ‘Mid TV’

Culture and entertainment musts from Caroline Mimbs Nyce This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...

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Stephanie Bai

Tapering

A poem for Sunday 1. I’m tapering the doctor says–– It might feel like you can hear your eyes moving–– space racing from the back of your...

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Jane Huffman

Meet Necessities Like Necessities

Western leaders do themselves no good when they avoid confronting the awfulness of war. In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part II, the Earl of Warwick...

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Eliot A. Cohen

A Strange Week in Politics

“It’s extraordinary how much politics have been warped in the Trump era.” This week, a range of political headlines continue to raise questions...

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The Editors

What Kids Can Bring to Conversations

One thing you quickly learn when speaking with a child: They’re natural philosophers. This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in...

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Isabel Fattal

The Asteroid-Mining Renaissance Has Arrived

Cosmic metals could fuel the clean-energy transition on Earth. This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. In April 2023, a satellite...

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Sarah Scoles

The Sad Fate of the Sports Parent

What’s left when your kid abandons your dreams and retires from competition? A true sports parent dies twice. There’s the death that awaits us all...

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Rich Cohen

The Wrong Way to Fight Anti-Semitism on Campus

A well-intentioned bill making its way through Congress could chill speech at colleges across the country. The House of Representatives passed the...

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Conor Friedersdorf

The Cat Who Saved Me

I will never owe another cat the debt that I owe her. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...

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Tom Nichols

The Weird World of AI Voice Replicas

ElevenLabs is ushering in a new era of deepfake audio. This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your...

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Damon Beres

The ‘Lurid Metaphors’ of Illness

Meghan O’Rourke recommends her favorite books about sickness and health. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to...

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Gal Beckerman

What Happened to Stormy Daniels Is Not Salacious

It was something sadder, uglier, and—for many people who have lived in some way in the shadow of sexual violence—more familiar. One evening in...

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Quinta Jurecic

Prom Dresses Are Just Dresses Now

Teen fashion used to be distinct. But the line separating it from adult style has blurred. For high schoolers across America, prom season means...

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Hilary George-Parkin

The Future of Electric Cars Hinges on a Dongle

A free charging adapter can help alleviate one of the biggest problems holding back EVs. Take a road trip in an electric car, and you’ll quickly...

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Abigail Bassett

The Best Hope for Electric Cars Could Be the GOP Districts Where They’re Made

The vehicles are being adopted fastest in blue-leaning major metropolitan areas. Dozens of used electric-vehicle batteries were stacked like...

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Ronald Brownstein

Against Sunscreen Absolutism

Moderate sun exposure can be good for you. Why won’t American experts acknowledge that? Listen to this article 00:00 14:49 Listen to more stories...

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Rowan Jacobsen

Miranda July’s Weird Road Trip

The author’s midlife-crisis novel is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy. Back when the word weird (or, in the spelling of the day, wyrd )...

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Jordan Kisner

Many Indians Don’t Trust Their Elections Anymore

Modi rose from a level playing field that no longer exists. On March 21, a little less than a month before India’s national elections, the main...

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Vaibhav Vats

The Anti-Bibi Protester Who Became Israel’s Spokesperson

Eylon Levy’s chaotic rise and sudden fall The job of international spokesperson for Israel, in a state of war, is fit for a patriot, a masochist, or...

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Graeme Wood

The Problem With America’s Protest Feedback Loop

Mass demonstrations are becoming more frequent but less effective. The country is stuck in a protest feedback loop. In recent months, students...

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Jerusalem Demsas

Photos of the Week: Grim Reaper, Wicker Man, Met Gala

Photos of the Week: Grim Reaper, Wicker Man, Met Gala Alan Taylor 6:00 AM ET 35 Photos In Focus The ruins of a mountain monastery in Turkey,...

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Alan Taylor

Don’t Be Deceived by First Impressions

We evolved to form snap judgments about who’s friend and who’s foe, but we need to be more evolved now. Want to stay current with Arthur’s...

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Arthur C. Brooks

Trump Flaunts His Corruption

The former president’s shakedown of oil executives may not have been illegal, but it is undeniably scandalous. One of the few ways in which...

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David A. Graham

What Happened When I Cloned My Own Voice

The promises and perils of AI voice software Recently my colleague Charlie Warzel, who covers technology, introduced me to the most sophisticated...

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Hanna Rosin

The Biggest Way That Elections Have Consequences

Presidents have surprisingly little influence over the economy—except in a single, vital respect: their agencies that issue regulations. Late...

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James Surowiecki

The Limits of Utopia

Fifty years ago, the architect Peter Blake questioned everything he thought he knew about modern building. This is an edition of Time-Travel...

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Sam Fentress

The Book You’re Reading Might Be Wrong

Most nonfiction isn’t fact-checked. The Kristi Noem saga could change that—but it probably won’t. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a...

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Elaine Godfrey

You Just Don’t See the Foam Neck Brace Anymore

You just don’t see foam collars anymore. It used to be that whenever someone on TV or in a movie fell off the roof or had a skiing mishap or got...

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Daniel Engber

The End of the ‘Photoshop Fail’

Adobe’s app was once synonymous with fake images online. Then came generative AI. In 2017, Rihanna posted a photo of herself on Instagram in which...

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Caroline Mimbs Nyce

The Tight Line Trump Has a Judge Walking

A conversation with David A. Graham about the bizarre nature of the former president’s criminal trial This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a...

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Stephanie Bai

Watch Apple Trash-Compact Human Culture

What was the company thinking? Here is a nonexhaustive list of objects Apple recently pulverized with a menacing hydraulic crusher: a trumpet, a...

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Damon Beres

Who Really Has Brain Worms?

A scientific inquiry Earlier today, The New York Times broke some startling news about a presidential candidate. According to a 2012 deposition,...

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Katherine J. Wu

How the Modern University Became a Bureaucratic Blob

Universities are experiencing goal ambiguity at a time when certainty is most necessary. This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work,...

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Derek Thompson

The Cases Against Trump: A Guide

Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Sign up for...

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David A. Graham

When Nan Goldin Danced in Low-Life Go-Go Bars in Paterson, N.J.

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. When Nan Goldin danced in low-life go-go bars in Paterson, N.J., I was a girl in...

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Rosa Alcala

What Would Trump Really Do on Abortion?

Trump would reenter office with broad authority to restrict abortion access. The only question is how much of it he’d use. Donald Trump has been...

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Rose Horowitch

The Nudes Internet

The online subculture where everything is about sex. The internet may be, as the 2003 musical Avenue Q put it, constructed for pornography, but the...

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Jane Coaston

Ozempic or Bust

America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early...

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Daniel Engber

What Those Pro-Palestinian Chants Mean

A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause as so...

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Judith Shulevitz

Our Love-Hate Obsession With Commencement Speeches

Where everything and nothing is at stake They appear every spring, like crocuses or robins or perhaps black flies: commencement addresses....

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Drew Gilpin Faust

Why Would America Ever Want to Emulate China’s Internet Laws?

Lawmakers have argued that the Chinese internet is better for kids. They’re wrong. Over the past week, I’ve spent several hours scrolling...

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Louise Matsakis

Her Name Was Ella Watson

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, American Gothic, was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell. I am the granddaughter...

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Salamishah Tillet

Photos: Deadly Flooding in Southern Brazil

Photos: Deadly Flooding in Southern Brazil Alan Taylor 1:45 PM ET 25 Photos In Focus For more than a week now, torrential rainfall in Brazil’s...

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Alan Taylor

The Brutal Catharsis of Drake vs. Kendrick

The feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar has become far, far bigger than music alone. Scapegoating is one of humankind’s primal rituals, dating...

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Spencer Kornhaber

The Many Lessons of Steve Albini

To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes felt like he was the last honest musician in the industry. Nearly 20 years ago, my high-school calculus...

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Jeremy Gordon

Stadium Subsidies Are Getting Even More Ridiculous

You would think that three decades’ worth of evidence would put an end to giving taxpayer money to wealthy sports owners. Unfortunately, you would...

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Dan Moore

The Stormy Daniels Testimony Spotlights Trump’s Misogyny

It’s not that Trump bore any malice toward Daniels; it’s that she mattered to him only as a vehicle to sex. Donald Trump has often loved to talk...

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David A. Graham

The Gaza Cease-Fire That Wasn’t

Four things to understand about the ongoing negotiations This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...

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Yair Rosenberg

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