Franklin Foer
He is the author of World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. He was previously the editor of The New Republic and a staff writer at Slate and New York magazine. His other books include How Soccer Explains the World and Jewish Jocks (co-edited with Marc Tracy), which won a National Jewish Book Award. He is currently finishing a history of the first year of the Joe Biden presidency.
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Alexander Chekmenev for The Atlantic The Man Who Chased History
The Ukrainian journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a nose for a story and a knack for being in the right place at the right time. I wanted to see the war through his eyes.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Paul Manafort Is Back
It isn’t pretty.
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RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP / Getty Zelensky’s Prayer
On the meaning of “We are still here.”
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Vadim Ghirda / AP The Horror of Bucha
Russian invaders are now treating the entirety of the Ukrainian population as combatants, as dirt to be cleansed.
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J. Scott Applewhite-Pool / Getty Volodymyr Zelensky’s Dream Life
The admiration for the Ukrainian leader that’s obvious and pervasive on social media is both genuine and a form of wish fulfillment.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Biden Answered the 3 a.m. Call
It’s hard to imagine that any of his rivals from the last election could have matched the president’s performance in this crisis.
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Marco Bello / Reuters The New Republican Battle Cry
What “awake, not woke” reveals about the GOP
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty A Prayer for Volodymyr Zelensky
History has found the Ukrainian president, and his courage is remarkable to witness.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Far Will Biden Go to Stop Putin?
The underlying purpose of American foreign policy is to prove that democracy is “not a relic of history.”
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Chris McGrath / Getty It’s Not ‘The’ Ukraine
The country is much more than a sphere of influence.
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Seth Wenig / AP The Triumph of Kleptocracy
With Donald Trump’s pardon of Paul Manafort, kleptocracy has successfully waited out its enemies.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Monster Publishing Merger Is About Amazon
Penguin Random House purchasing Simon & Schuster is not the gravest danger to the publishing business. The deal is transpiring in a larger context—and that context is Amazon.
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Getty / The Atlantic Winning Was the Easy Part
Now Joe Biden needs to repair a badly broken country.
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Kris Connor / WireImage / Getty Trump Thinks He’s Found Biden’s Greatest Vulnerability
In targeting Hunter Biden, the president is waging psychological warfare against the Democratic nominee.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Irony of the Google Antitrust Suit
Donald Trump and Bill Barr are biting the hand that fed them.
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OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP / Getty Joe Biden Has Changed
He’s preparing for a transformative presidency.
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Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty L’État, C’est Trump
The government is coming to resemble its vindictive, delusional leader.
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Nathan Howard / Getty How Donald Trump Is Killing Politics
Peaceful coexistence requires a system of compromise. Targeting that system is a recipe for violence.
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The Atlantic Russiagate Was Not a Hoax
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed what the Mueller report could not.
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Christopher Lee / VII / Redux The Good Son
Polished, soft-spoken, and a self-styled moderate, Jared Kushner has become his father-in-law’s most dangerous enabler.
