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 Honolulu Civil Beat, Nieman Journalism Lab, WBUR, Hawaii Public Radio, Honolulu Weekly, and Digital First Media. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The Man Who Made Off With John Updike’s Trash
Who really owns a great writer’s legacy?
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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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Melanie Leigh Wilbur / AtlanticLIVE The Intolerant Left
A conversation with the writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jeffrey Goldberg about self-righteousness among progressives, the appeal of Donald Trump, and the entitlement that comes with being white in America
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Architect of the Capitol Social Media in 1857
Newspapers once featured telegraph items that bear a striking resemblance to tweets.
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Brooks Kraft LLC / Corbis via Getty The ‘Harvey Effect’ Takes Down Leon Wieseltier's Magazine
The legendary intellectual’s fledgling publication, set to launch this month, is being suspended amid allegations of past workplace misconduct.
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Library of Congress Conspiracy Theories Are for Underdogs
Donald Trump’s recent tweet about long-secret JFK files is a way for the president to try to reclaim a status that has repeatedly helped him.
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Stefan Wermuth / Reuters The World's Most Powerful Publishers Refuse to Admit What They Really Are
Facebook and Google's push to personalize the news is the latest seismic shift in tech giants’ influence on the information landscape.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Latest on Hurricane Harvey
A guide to The Atlantic’s ongoing coverage of the catastrophe in Texas
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Acrostic as a Form of Bureaucratic Dissent
Hiding a message in a resignation letter is provocative—but also passive aggressive.
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Library of Congress The Lost History of an American Coup D’État
Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.
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Library of Congress The Sound of an Atomic Bomb
A flash, a boom, then a roar
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Last Week Tonight / YouTube screenshot John Oliver Skewers Trump’s Plan for a Border Patrol Hiring Blitz
The president wants to hire and train 500 new agents in 2018.
