The ideology of decolonization “does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians,” S Sebag Montefiore writes in one of our most-read stories of 2023: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Such a moving and well done story, and would that it moved the rich and elite conservationists to introspection

Must-read of the day! Elaina Plott Calabro's deeply reported story about the speaker of the House poses a key question: 'What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?'

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If you want to understand what just happened, this new Elaina Plott Calabro profile of Mike Johnson is a must-read: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

.Elaina Plott Calabro sits down with the Speaker:
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We're so damned angry and bitter because we're so damned pessimistic. My Atlantic essay >>> theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'With the passage of this aid bill, Russia’s demoralization campaign has suffered a severe setback,' Anne Applebaum writes. 'Suddenly the Russian military and Russian society are once again faced with the prospect of a very long war.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

A specter is haunting Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York state court—the specter of the Access Hollywood tape. For The Atlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The House vote for Ukraine aid this weekend exposed the deflation of Trump support inside the GOP. My latest in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Neoliberalism 'has led to the freedom of a few at the expense of the many. As Isaiah Berlin would have it: Freedom for the wolves; death for the sheep,' Joseph E. Stiglitz writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“It looks like a hodgepodge of domes and minarets, tubes and canopies, like Istanbul had it been designed by idiots.” Gary Shteyngart embarks on the Icon of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship that’s ever sailed: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

“To untell a legend is a formidable task,” writes Dave Cullen. “It will be possible only when the media finally begin to convey how pathetic and gruesome the killers’ final moments were”: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Read ⁦Anne Applebaum⁩ on The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win. - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

An excerpt from my new book, The Road to Freedom (W. W. Norton & Company, on sale tomorrow) in The Atlantic just out this morning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'By dawdling for so many months... congressional Republicans who blocked weapons and ammunition for Ukraine did an enormous amount of damage, some of it irreparable.' -- Anne Applebaum:
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“The rising value of pelts has encouraged the illicit slaughter of donkeys, the bypassing of regulatory controls, and the widespread theft of donkeys from poor farmers,” writes Michael Schuman: theatlantic.com/international/…

Terry Anderson, the Marine veteran and globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.

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'The automated imitation of emotion isn’t exhilarating; it’s alienating—a soulless simulacrum lacking the essence of human interaction,'Yair Rosenberg writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I used to tell my Jewish friends - even weeks ago - that Columbia (where I’ve served as a professor and a dean for 15 years) was still a safe place for their kids to live and study.

I’ve come to doubt that. So does a campus rabbi, Ellie Buechler.

h/t Jake Tapper

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