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 several other newspapers and magazines.
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Eloisa Lopez / Reuters / Redux The Energizer Bunny of Nobel Laureates
Maria Ressa is focused on three things: avoiding prison, fixing the entire internet, and saving democracy.
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Shutterstock; The Atlantic Elon Musk Accidentally Bought a Casino
Twitter’s new owner doesn’t seem to grasp what he’s purchased.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Liberty No More
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the very definition of what it means to be American will change for women and girls in the United States.
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Vasya Kolotusha The 12 Most Unforgettable Descriptions of Food in Literature
Haruki Murakami’s stir fry, Maurice Sendak’s chicken soup with rice—only the most gifted writers have made meals on the page worth remembering.
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Seth Herald / Redux America Is Running Out of Time
A reader’s guide to The Atlantic’s coverage of a worsening democratic crisis
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Irene Sousalo ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.
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Danielle Del Plato The Largest Autocracy on Earth
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.
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Getty ; The Atlantic ‘Why Are We Not Vaccinating Children Under 12?’
An infectious-disease doctor on what we know about the Delta variant and the risks that lie ahead.
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Adam Maida Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
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Rebecca Blackwell / AP So You Want to Go to War With Philadelphia?
Good luck with that.
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Olivia Arthur / Magnum ‘This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail’
It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.
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Arsh Raziuddin The Prophecies of Q
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Hillary Clinton: Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘Authoritarian’ Views on Misinformation
Facebook has traded moral accountability for commercial gain, the former secretary of state tells The Atlantic. Clinton says Zuckerberg’s reasoning is “Trumpian.”
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic Let’s All Read More Fiction
Over the centuries, our magazine has prized great storytelling. Now we’re recommitting ourselves to publishing short fiction, beginning with a story by Lauren Groff.
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Harris & Ewing / Library of Congress The ‘Undesirable Militants’ Behind the Nineteenth Amendment
A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.
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HBO I’ve Never Watched Game of Thrones. But Here’s What I Know
Goodbye, dragon show.
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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.
