Adrienne LaFrance

Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• December 15, 2020

So You Want to Go to War With Philadelphia?

Good luck with that.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• November 6, 2020

‘This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail’

It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• August 2, 2020

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.”

• Adrienne LaFrance
• January 25, 2020

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.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• January 14, 2020

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.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• June 4, 2019

I’ve Never Watched Game of Thrones. But Here’s What I Know

Goodbye, dragon show.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• May 18, 2019

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.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• March 31, 2019

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

• Adrienne LaFrance
• January 23, 2019

Six Hours and Three Minutes of Internet Chaos

In the annals of revelatory Trump tweets, “covfefe” is the ultimate.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• January 13, 2019

The Everlasting Joy of Terrifying Children

Pop-horror writers like R. L. Stine see fear and storytelling the way the Victorians did.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• October 31, 2018

Introducing The Atlantic Crossword

We made a cozy new corner of the internet for smart people who like words.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• October 1, 2018

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.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• August 18, 2018

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.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• August 8, 2018

Elon Musk Should Know Better

This isn’t the first time the billionaire has dabbled in the news business.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• May 29, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism

Either that, or he doesn’t care.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• May 1, 2018

‘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.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• April 14, 2018

The Graduate 50 Years After Its Oscar Win

Revisiting a film embraced by the 1968 generation

• Conor Friedersdorf, Megan Garber, Christopher Orr, and Adrienne LaFrance
• March 3, 2018

The Case Against Tom Brady

He’s arguably the best quarterback of all time. That’s part of what makes him the absolute worst.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• January 31, 2018