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During the early pandemic, the sad desk salad seemed doomed. Now it's thriving, Yasmin Tayag writes—and becoming sadder than ever: theatln.tc/TTXst9JL
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. Anne Applebaum on how democracy is losing the propaganda war: theatln.tc/gs5mCyiU theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
'I wish I had the dust of you, a grave / to visit. I'm running on your sea legs right now, / tired of the little bits—not even leftovers.' Read a new poem by Jan Beatty: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
NASA’s plan to bring home Mars samples has gone off the rails—and scientists are very worried about what’s next, Marina Koren writes. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
“Michael Cohen is an admitted liar and a convicted felon who is openly fueled by a thirst for revenge against Donald Trump,” Lora Kelley.
Does that hurt his credibility as a witness—or help him? theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened on September 11, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon write: theatln.tc/JO9wWeZi
Israel will almost certainly reject the deal that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are working on, writes Andrew Exum. And it will do so 'in front of a global audience that has lost patience with [its] policies toward and treatment of the Palestinians.' theatlantic.com/international/…
“Following an act of brutality in 1888, my ancestors began the process of uprooting themselves.”
ko “that’s it” bragg. on how the lynching of an ancestor sparked her family’s exodus from the South—and what it means to return: theatln.tc/n6TNDy0v
“The leaders of universities do not exist to pass judgment on politics, or twist their endowments into moralistic knots, or attempt to shape the course of American foreign policy,” Eliot A Cohen writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
If you’re looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley’s latest gold rush, look no further than OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson debacle, Charlie Warzel writes. theatln.tc/7akEZXZN
The ads on Charlie Kirk’s podcast—for products such as food rations and right-wing coffee—can sound like something from an alternate universe.
“The more I listened to them,” writes Ali Breland, “the more I came to understand that that was the point.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
“Britain will go to the polls on July 4, the date that Americans celebrate cutting their old rulers loose,” Helen Lewis writes. “If the polls are right, a majority of Britons are about to do the same.” theatlantic.com/international/…
Sam Altman doesn’t know where artificial intelligence will lead humanity—but he’s taking us there anyway.
Ross Andersen reported last year from inside OpenAI’s race to bring a new superintelligence into the world: theatln.tc/achS2W1n
For The Atlantic, I looked back on the rebooted Planet of the Apes films, in part because I enjoy them immensely (Team Maurice 4 Life)... theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…