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.
Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines
As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration.
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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.
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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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