Conor Friedersdorf
Before joining The Atlantic in 2010, he was the features editor at Culture11 and a reporter for the Los Angeles News Group. He is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
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Laszlo Balogh / Getty Why Viktor Orbán’s Racism Matters in the U.S.
Plus: Is sex sacred?
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Stefano Ukmar / Redux 11 Reader Views on Class Prejudice in America
“Economic class determines everything that happens to you in this country,” one writes.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty Is It Worse to Ban a Book, or Never Publish It?
Plus: Reality is now just a game, one writer argues.
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Jon Cherry / Getty / The Atlantic 13 Reader Views on Directing Tax Money to Private Schools
Do public schools need a “free-market correction”?
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Jon Cherry / Getty The Real Reason Democrats Are Losing Ground on Education
The media seem to be missing the key takeaway from a new poll.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty 20 Reader Ideas for Who Could Replace Biden
Gavin Newsom, Jon Stewart, Liz Cheney, Amy Klobuchar, Stacey Abrams, and more
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The Atlantic How to Fix the Bias Against Free Speech on Campus
Universities should limit bureaucrats’ power to investigate students and professors for expressing their opinions.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Hawley-Bridges Exchange Was Not Constructive
Plus: what Democrats should do about abortion now
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Monica Gumm / laif / Redux Your Odes to Summer
Baseball, mosquitoes, and the best songs for the season.
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Guillermo Legaria / Getty America’s Public-Health Efforts Have Slowed to a Crawl
Why we’re seeing so little progress not just on vaccines, but even on sunscreen.
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The Atlantic; Reuters Should Americans Have a Right to Absolute Privacy?
Nine readers on the constitutional amendment they would—or would not—write.
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Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters The Domino Effects of New Anti-abortion Laws
Plus: Thomas Chatterton Williams on abolishing the fiction of racial difference, and reader views on humor in the workplace
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Eamonn M. McCormack / Getty; The Atlantic ‘How You React Is the Only Thing You Can Control’
Reader views on Dave Chappelle, what makes a joke harmful, free expression, the pain of being mocked, and more
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Eamonn M. McCormack / Getty When the Punishment Doesn’t Fit the Joke
Dave Chappelle, Matthew Yglesias, and highlights in a fraught week for humor
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Joos Mind / Getty; The Atlantic Inflation vs. Recession: Eight Readers Choose
Including a Millennial, who offers a lament for her generation
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Joos Mind / Getty There May Be a Blunt-Force Fix for Inflation
Plus: Dysfunction in progressive institutions
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Liu Guanguan / China News Service / Getty; … 10 Reader Views on Crime in Their Neighborhoods
“Statistically, I should be more afraid of the men in my life than the men in the street.”
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The Atlantic; Wikimedia Commons Professors Need the Power to Fire Diversity Bureaucrats
Scholars should drive out overzealous administrators, not vice versa.
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Liu Guanguan / China News Service / Getty Do Voters See a Difference Between Crime and Homelessness?
Plus: The case for staying in a bad marriage
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Saul Loeb / Getty; The Atlantic America’s Duty to Help the World’s Vulnerable: 13 Reader Views
Is the U.S. the least-bad option for maintaining global stability?
