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A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (78+ words) The Atlantic This is what a president sounds like. “I try—sometimes,” she said shyly. “You’re always hooping,” he said. “And you’re on a nice little run right now.” It was a quietly interesting and complicated encounter, and a heartening…...
The Mounting Cost of War
16+ hour, 11+ min ago (13+ words) Trump weighs escalating the war with Iran as criticism of the conflict grows....
When You’ll Know You’re Middle-Aged
14+ hour ago (335+ words) Trying to attach some numbers to a fuzzy phase of life The only thing anyone can reliably tell you about middle age is that it’s in the middle of life. What’s the middle? Well, it’s after the beginning, and before…...
How to Open Yourself Up to a New Passion
15+ hour ago (232+ words) Sometimes the things that bring us the most joy are the ones we stumble upon. Over the past two decades, Matt Seaton discovered something about himself: He loves building walls. Seaton started by mending a stone wall at the Vermont…...
Washington, the Useful Abolitionist
15+ hour, 28+ min ago (243+ words) In Philadelphia, the Trump administration downplays the importance of slavery to understanding the first president. Allen stood on firm ground. Remarkably, he was among the very first to mention publicly that Washington had freed the people he enslaved. Through this…...
Even Trump Can’t Spin This One
15+ hour, 41+ min ago (40+ words) The Atlantic You can’t post your way out of a war. Read: The war is lost. Now fix what it broke. Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan Lemire: War by any other name...
The Ticking Clock on the Strait of Hormuz
15+ hour, 52+ min ago (242+ words) Trump said it himself in June—military force won’t open the waterway, and energy reserves are quickly winding down. Back in June, at the closing press conference for the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, Donald Trump explained why he had called a…...
Trump’s Trigger Warnings
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (134+ words) The Atlantic The president is ordering new signs outside the Smithsonian to warn Americans about history. Trump is directing Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in this new order because he cannot officially direct Hartig, and neither can he direct Smithsonian Secretary…...
Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (264+ words) Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. When I reached out to Meta, a spokesperson told me via email that “these claims are bogus.” Meta also noted in a court…...
Homer Was the Homer of the Zulus
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (183+ words) The right-wing backlash to The Odyssey is about portraying civilization as a whites-only project. This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. In a different time, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would have been celebrated by the American right as…...