Kelli María Korducki
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Allure of Messy Reddit Stories
Jerusalem Demsas’s culture and entertainment picks include Children of Time, Vampire Weekend, and chasing down stories people tell—or make up—on Reddit.
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The Atlantic Don’t Be Misled by GPT-4’s Gift of Gab
OpenAI’s new language program reveals a flaw in society’s understanding of “smart.”
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Silicon Valley Is Losing Its Luster
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is a turning point for tech.
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Amy Sussman / Getty Images The Stand-Up Special That’s Actually Funny
Amanda Mull’s culture and entertainment picks include an addictive color-by-number game, a riveting comedy special, and The Boss himself.
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Getty The ’90s Blockbuster That’s Also a Symphony
Megan Garber’s entertainment picks include the “full-throttle camp” of Face/Off, a forthcoming translation of The Iliad, and the cringe-comedy series The Rehearsal.
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fotostorm / Getty A Popular—And Misunderstood—Theory of Relationships
We’re using the concept of “attachment styles” all wrong.
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Netflix The Netflix Royal Drama You Might Not Know About
Helen Lewis’s culture picks include a period drama on “the Habsburg Meghan Markle,” a “majestically petty” Clive James poem, and a certain royal memoir.
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zhihao / Getty Beware the Lidless Toilet
An early-pandemic theory of COVID transmission now seems dubious. But there are other reasons to fear the toilet plume.
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Amy Sussman / Getty The Midlife Renaissance of Women in Hollywood
Pamela Anderson and Jennifer Coolidge are part of a generation of performers forcing the public to reckon with the way women’s stories have been told.
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Murray Close / Sygma / Sygma via Getty The High Tension and Pure Camp of Jurassic Park
Jane Yong Kim’s culture picks include the dinosaur blockbuster and a wild-swimming travelogue.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty How America Lost Its Grip on Reality
Life in the metaverse is fueling conspiracies across America.
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Dan Kitwood / Getty Prince Harry’s Memoir Won’t Hurt the Monarchy
Helen Lewis on the book’s revelations and the changed world of tabloid news
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Mateus Bonomi / Anadolu Agency via Getty The Trump-Bolsonaro Connection
Anne Applebaum on the global cohort of antidemocratic influencers that encouraged the insurrection in Brazil
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty In Politics, Is Older Better?
Franklin Foer argues that youthful vigor is no match for hard-won experience.
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Marvel The Superhero Movie That Actually Pulls Off Blockbuster Magic
Xochitl Gonzalez’s culture picks include Yellowjackets, the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, and Black Panther
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Roy Rochlin / Getty Why the Far Right Is Fixated on Drag Queens
The ACLU’s Chase Strangio draws the connection between the global antidemocratic movement and rising anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and violence in the U.S.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The State of Free Speech
Conor Friedersdorf on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and his hopes and fears for American freedom of expression
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Mark Wallheiser / Getty Can DeSantis Unseat Trump?
The long-awaited Republican reckoning has only just begun, says David Frum.
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Greenwich Entertainment The Little-Known Roots of ‘Black Power’
Sixties-era Lowndes County, Alabama, explains much about race and voting rights in America today.
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Noam Galai / Getty How to Stay Healthy This Cold-and-Flu Season
Hand-washing versus masking, staying home versus going into work, and the policy solutions we’re not (yet) pursuing
