The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.
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Sonja Flemming / CBS / Getty The Golden Globes Got a Little Weird With It
The 2025 winners were all over the map, portending a wide-open awards season.
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India is now a testing ground for whether demagoguery or deteriorating living conditions exert a greater sway on voters.
Anonymous / Wild Pigeon 24 / Magnum The Global Outrage Machine Skips the Uyghurs
China grandstands about Gaza while repressing a Muslim community within its own borders. Hardly anyone seems to notice.
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Each of these titles exercises a different kind of reading muscle, so that you can choose the one that will push you most.
Gabriella Demczuk / Reuters The Rise of John Ratcliffe
A partisan loyalist with a history of politicizing intelligence will soon be running the CIA.
You Won’t Believe Who Our New Neighbors Are
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America Has a Drinking Problem
A little alcohol can boost creativity and strengthen social ties. But there’s nothing moderate, or convivial, about the way many Americans drink today. (From 2021)
Photograph by Chelsea Kyle; Prop Stylist: Amy Elise Wilson; Food Stylist: Sue Li The Insurrectionists Next Door
Ashli Babbitt’s mother and the wife of a notorious January 6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the right. They are also my neighbors. (From September)
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Luke MacGregor / Reuters The Rise of the Troll
They may seem like pranksters on the margins, but what happens when the most powerful people on Earth are trolls?
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. radio atlantic•Episode 106Me, My Future, and I
I had a conversation with an 80-year-old version of myself. I didn’t like her.
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A pro-vaccine doctor argues that the left should engage with Americans skeptical of public-health rules.
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How do we overcome the awkwardness that keeps us from starting a conversation?
LIMITED SERIESWe Live Here Now
We found out that our new neighbors were supporting January 6 insurrectionists. We knocked on their door. A podcast series about what happened next.
LIMITED SERIESAutocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
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