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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Getty / The Atlantic How Elon Musk’s Buffoonery Misleads His Critics
What I learned while binge-watching social media’s hottest melodrama
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Joshua A. Bickel / Bloomberg / Getty Will an Influential Conservative Brain Trust Stand Up to Trump?
Plus: Cases for, and against, medical euthanasia in Canada
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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum; The Atlantic 10 Readers on Opposing Anti-Semitism
“Conversations are critical weapons,” one reader writes.
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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum How Should We Deal With High-Profile Anti-Semites?
Plus: Apple’s rotten update
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Getty; The Atlantic The Gift of Civil Discussion
Plus: An unusual list of things to be grateful for
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Jordan Vonderhaar / Bloomberg / Getty The Case for Building More Housing
Plus: Thanksgiving-guest controversy
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Daniel A. Varela / Miami Herald / Getty Ron DeSantis’s Speech Policing Could Hurt the Right Too
Someday, progressives may be in a position to abuse a new Florida law.
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Francesca Volpi / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic 15 Readers on How They’re Cutting Costs
Plus: What not to cut back on
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Francesca Volpi / Bloomberg / Getty The Sad Pragmatism of Inflation-Era Cuisine
Plus: Did the 1960s environmental movement worsen today’s climate crisis?
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AP; The Atlantic What the Midterm Results Really Mean to Voters
Readers across the political spectrum share surprising assessments of last week’s midterms.
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Brynn Anderson / AP Is Florida Still a Swing State?
A temperature reading on the state of U.S. politics
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Getty; The Atlantic Book-Industry Activists Should Be Careful What They Wish For
The abortion debate will not be resolved by either side declaring the other illegitimate.
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Getty What Should Colleges Care About?
Readers weigh in on affirmative action and the future of university admissions.
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Getty; The Atlantic How America Has Changed Since the First Affirmative-Action Case
Plus: The plastic-recycling conundrum
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty How Old Is Too Old in Politics?
“One’s physical and mental acuity is a valid voting factor,” writes one reader.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea
Technology at the table is bad for human connection.
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Caroline Brehman / CQ Roll Call / Getty The Importance of Dissent in Wartime
Plus: The limits of what academics can know
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Brian Shumway / Redux 10 Reader Views on the Varieties of Anti-racism
Plus: A case for schools as “a source of national pride”
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Mario Tama / Getty What Lies Beyond the L.A. City Council Debacle
Plus: Did Jon Stewart anticipate Tucker Carlson?
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Rick Loomis / The New York Times / … Do Sports Matter?
Readers weigh in on the role of athletics in today’s society—and if they should have one at all.
