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Scalia: Our Political System Is 'Designed for' Gridlock
The justice says the Supreme Court is deciding fewer cases because Congress is passing fewer pieces of major legislation… More »
Bob Cohn is editorial director of Atlantic Digital. He has worked as executive editor at Wired and The Industry Standard and as a writer at Newsweek. More
The justice says the Supreme Court is deciding fewer cases because Congress is passing fewer pieces of major legislation… More »
The commissioner called this "one of the most serious" outbreaks in decades, and said her agency needs stronger ties to entrepreneurs… More »
Our new site explores the most innovative ideas and pressing issues facing an increasingly urban world… More »
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Our May 2010 issue has been selected by the American Society of Magazine Editors as a finalist for Best Cover in the "News and Business" category. You can vote for The Atlantic over at Amazon, which is hosting the contest. (Click on Best in News & Business in the left column.)The May issue featured a compelling story by Marc Ambinder on the war against obesity in America. The wonderful cover illustration is by Alex Ostroy.Bonus: Vote for The Atlantic (or, OK,…… More »
A conversation about the nominee with Supreme Court watcher Stuart Taylor… More »
Notice anything different? Our new site is a lot like the old one—but (we hope you agree) so much better.… More »
On September 24, Recession Road Trip wrote about Charles Zimmerman, a 60-year-old former soldier who, together with his wife, was newly homeless in Sacramento. Zimmerman had been the subject of a post a week earlier that described his efforts to get the military to pay him his pension, which he said had been caught in red tape for years. Now, we reported, in the aftermath of our first post, Zimmerman said he had been approached by an Army official who promised him…… More »
Tim O'Reilly has 833,025 followers on Twitter. No doubt more by the time you click over to his account. And he's written 7,688 status updates. Not only that, but as one of the smartest writers and thinkers on technology, he's devoted some time to figuring out what Twitter really means -- and how he can best use it. He compares himself to a point guard on a basketball team -- "handing out assists" by "using my retweets to build the visibility of others and create…… More »
My first real job in journalism was writing about labor unions and workplace issues. Brushing up, I read a book called The Teamsters that was then about six years old. It was an amazing history of power, greed, and crime at the most powerful union in the world, back when unions had real power. The author, a Yale Law school grad named Steve Brill, published the book when he was just 29. He went on to an impressive career as a media entrepreneur: founder of American…… More »
You gotta like Sandra Day O'Connor. She's spirited, direct, no-nonsense and, three years after stepping down from the Supreme Court, gives the jaunty impression she is telling you things she ought not be saying. So it was in our conversation earlier this month at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where O'Connor was among 16 public officials, politicians, writers, and business leaders to sit with TheAtlantic.com for video interviews. … More »
Fifteen summers after he was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said his Senate hearings were "stressful" even though "my confirmation was supposed to be pretty noncontroversial." In an interview with TheAtlantic.com at the Aspen Ideas Festival earlier this month, Breyer remembered what it was like to testify: "There are 17 senators on one side of the table, and I'm on the other side. And people are watching me on…… More »
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