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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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?
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Saul Loeb / Getty The Potential of a ‘Hot War’ Between the U.S. and Russia
Plus: The “wingnut theory” of politics
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George Frey / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic 14 Reader Views on Guns
The woman arming herself against MAGA America, gun owners against gun culture, and more weigh in.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Mass Shootings, Young Men, and What Can Be Done
Plus: the firing of a Princeton professor
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Atlantic; Getty What Travel Can, and Cannot, Teach Us
Is travel “a fool’s paradise,” per Ralph Waldo Emerson, or the only way to understand “La Dolce Vita”?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Tucker Carlson Deserves Blame—But Not for Buffalo
Plus: What Elon Musk and Barack Obama have in common
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty; … Readers Offer Their Moral Dilemmas
Would you press a button to eradicate cancer if 20 percent more marriages would end in divorce?
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty Is Gen Z Coddled, or Caring?
Plus: What’s bad for Russian looters might be bad for everyone.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic ‘I’m Very Conflicted’: Readers Share Complex Views on Abortion
Readers share their views on the personal, legal, and political sides of the issue.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty 20 Bold Takes on the Roe Draft Opinion
The conservative case for upholding Roe v. Wade, understanding Justice Alito’s legal reasoning, and more
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Charles Phelps Cushing / ClassicStock / Getty; The … What Do Twitter’s Users Actually Want?
Eighteen takes on what should—and should not—be forbidden on the platform.
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Ted Soqui / Corbis Getty; Lindsay Brice / … Rodney King’s Finest Hour
At a fraught moment, he urged his fellow Angelenos to think of the common good.
