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My Book Had Come Undone

A poem for Wednesday because I’d deemed the book complete, the last pages written, end notes done. Because the pages seemed armored against me....

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Carolina Hotchandani

A Democrat’s Case for Saving Mike Johnson

Why Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants to rescue the speaker from his own party If Speaker Mike Johnson keeps his job, it’ll be...

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Russell Berman

Elon Musk’s EV Empire Is Crumbling

Tesla’s future as the next Ford is in doubt. Instead, the company may become the next Con Ed. Of late, Tesla’s cars have come to seem a bit...

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Matteo Wong

Taylor Swift Is Stuck in the Story

Where does a woman go when she’s outgrown the narratives she’s telling? The year was 2006. Popular music was, for women, a pretty desolate...

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Sophie Gilbert

Chile’s Amazing National Parks

Chile’s Amazing National Parks Alan Taylor 2:55 PM ET 30 Photos In Focus Across the length of Chile, stretching 2,650 miles (4,265 kilometers)...

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Alan Taylor

The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety. Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn’t want crushed...

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Adam Serwer

Columbia Has Resorted to Pedagogy Theater

Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem. Columbia University shut down all in-person classes on Monday, and faculty and staff...

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Ian Bogost

The TikTok Ban Is a Disaster, Even if You Support It

No one has a plan for the app. So: You’ve decided to force a multibillion-dollar technology company with ties to China to divest from its...

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Charlie Warzel

How Bird Flu Is Shaping People’s Lives

A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the disease sweeping through animals and raising food-safety questions This is an edition of The Atlantic...

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Lora Kelley

What It Means to Love a Dog

Why did I cry for my yellow Lab but not my mom? My mom died six years ago, a few hours after I sat on the edge of her bed at her nursing home in...

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Tommy Tomlinson

The Best Friends to Maybe-Lovers to Tennis Rivals Pipeline

Challengers has plenty of moody intrigue, and it doesn’t skimp on the sports, either. As any fan of tennis can inform you, one of the sport’s...

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David Sims

The Particular Brutality of Colonial Wars

A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the cruel means by which the Dutch tried to hold on to their colony. Even the most...

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Adam Hochschild

The College Financial-Aid Scramble

Students are bearing the brunt of the disastrous FAFSA overhaul. That may affect where they go to college—and whether they enroll at all. This is...

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Lora Kelley

The New Quarter-Life Crisis

Running a marathon has become a milestone for a growing number of young adults. Maybe you started running for fitness, or because it seemed like a...

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Maggie Mertens

The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’

What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive? Yesterday just before midnight, word...

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Michael Powell

Last Weekend’s Political Mirage

The passage of the Ukrainian aid package won’t transform the GOP. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through...

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Charles Sykes

For Earth Day, a Photo Appreciation of Birds

For Earth Day, a Photo Appreciation of Birds Alan Taylor 2:24 PM ET 30 Photos In Focus On this Earth Day, a day set aside to remember and...

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Alan Taylor

It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed. The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an...

monday 8

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Judith Donath

Introducing: How to Know What’s Real

A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic. What is “real life,” now that the internet and AI are integrated into so much that we do? In...

monday 30

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Megan Garber

What Donald Trump Fears Most

A potential reckoning he has spent a lifetime eluding could be coming. Donald Trump’s biographers all seem to agree that he didn’t get a lot of...

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David Axelrod

The Accidental Speaker

What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this? You could be forgiven for thinking it was Mike Johnson’s idea to host the House Republicans’...

monday 8

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Elaina Plott Calabro

Freedom for the Wolves

Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is...

monday 10

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Joseph E. Stiglitz

Trump’s Misogyny Is on Trial in New York

To read through the court filings is to be plunged back anew into the dizzying chaos of those last few weeks before the 2016 election. A specter is...

monday 10

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Quinta Jurecic

The New American Pessimism

Too many Americans feel that our best days are behind us. It had been clear for years that China was rising and rising—building rail lines and...

monday 10

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Frank Bruni

Trump Is Picking Up Where Pat Buchanan Left Off

Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Trump is reaping the benefits. In May 1995, Pat Buchanan appeared at the...

monday 5

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Ari Berman

A Dentist Found a Jawbone in a Floor Tile

Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not. Recently, a man visiting his parents’ newly renovated home...

monday 1

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Sarah Zhang

The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.

Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change. It’s not too late, because it’s never too late. No outcomes are ever...

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Anne Applebaum

The Inflation Nightmare in Your Garage

Why is the cost of car insurance up 40 percent over the past two years? Inflation, finally, has cooled off. Prices have increased 2.5 percent over...

21.04.2024 30

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Annie Lowrey

There Will Never Be Another John Sterling

The iconic Yankees broadcaster reminds us that what makes us human cannot be imitated. My family never had cable or watched much TV when I was...

21.04.2024 20

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Yair Rosenberg

Why China Can’t Get Enough of Africa’s Donkeys

A popular remedy is made from the animals’ hides—but the out-of-control trade is beginning to cause geopolitical problems for Beijing. Search on...

21.04.2024 10

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Michael Schuman

Hinge

A poem for Sunday — with a phrase by Roger Reeves At the long edge of the screen door keeping most of the flies out. At the classroom door, smooth...

21.04.2024 6

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José A. Rodríguez

Tips and Tricks From a Crossword Prodigy

A conversation with this year’s speed-solving champion, Paolo Pasco Don’t want to miss a single column? Sign up to get Caleb’s writing in your...

21.04.2024 3

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Caleb Madison

How to Look at the World With More Wonder

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

21.04.2024 10

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Stephanie Bai

Trump Deflates

It wasn’t just Putin who lost in the House vote on Ukraine aid. Ukraine won. Trump lost. The House vote to aid Ukraine renews hope that Ukraine...

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David Frum

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