Adrienne LaFrance
Before joining The Atlantic in 2014, LaFrance was an investigative reporter for several local and national news organizations, covering politics, technology, and media.
She is a former reporter at Digital First Media, Nieman Journalism Lab, WBUR, Hawaii Public Radio, Honolulu Weekly, and Honolulu Civil Beat. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and in several other newspapers and magazines.
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Fox News Fox Got It Wrong With ‘3 Mexican Countries,’ but It Also Got It Right
The network quickly corrected the errant chyron, but it captured something essential about Trump's approach to immigration.
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Richard Howard / The LIFE Images Collection / ... Russell Baker: ‘When Writing Is Fun, It’s Not Very Good’
Falling potatoes, reading lists, and humor critiques: a wide-ranging conversation with the legendary New York Times columnist, who died this week at 93
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Drew Angerer / Getty Six Hours and Three Minutes of Internet Chaos
In the annals of revelatory Trump tweets, “covfefe” is the ultimate.
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Tim McDonagh The Everlasting Joy of Terrifying Children
Pop-horror writers like R. L. Stine see fear and storytelling the way the Victorians did.
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Araki Koman Introducing The Atlantic Crossword
We made a cozy new corner of the internet for smart people who like words.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Trump’s Implicit Defense of Alex Jones Is an Echo of Birtherism
In a Saturday tweetstorm, the president complained that “too many voices are being destroyed” by social media, amid an ongoing controversy about the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s use of Twitter.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is protecting Alex Jones’s publishing power in the name of “what serves the public conversation best.” His reasoning is absurd.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Elon Musk Should Know Better
This isn’t the first time the billionaire has dabbled in the news business.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism
Either that, or he doesn’t care.
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Larry Downing ‘Mission Accomplished’ and the Meme Presidency
Donald Trump used an infamous phrase to describe U.S. military action in Syria, the latest in the president’s tradition of remixing and amplifying messages from his predecessors.
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Embassy Pictures The Graduate 50 Years After Its Oscar Win
Revisiting a film embraced by the 1968 generation
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Case Against Tom Brady
He’s arguably the best quarterback of all time. That’s part of what makes him the absolute worst.
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Reuters Donald Trump’s Very 1990s Tabloid Scandal
The storyline is the same, but the technology changes.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The New York Times's Glenn Thrush Dilemma
A top leader at the newspaper says it took an ultra-nuanced approach in deciding how to handle allegations against a star reporter.
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Sevans / AP Articles and Stories We Do Not Want to Read or Edit
A memo from The Atlantic's editors in 1973 is weirdly relevant today.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Stephen Colbert’s Favorite Things About Mike Pence
The late-show host devoted a portion of his Friday monologue to the many “juicy nuggets” in The Atlantic’s recent profile of the vice president.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters A Mafia State Within a Totalitarian Society
Reflections on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin from the writer Masha Gessen, whose new book about Russia won the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Donald Trump’s Obsession With Time Magazine Makes Almost Too Much Sense
The now-fading publication evokes a distinct 20th-century kind of wealth and influence—like the Plaza Hotel and Elaine’s on the Upper East Side.
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Screenshot from CNN Jake Tapper Would Prefer Not To Be So Agitated
The CNN correspondent on journalism, hypocrisy, how a Twitter fave can ruin his morning, and why he has a poster of George Wallace hanging in his office
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Architect of the Capitol Social Media in 1857
Newspapers once featured telegraph items that bear a striking resemblance to tweets.
