We’re excited to announce Ali Breland joining The Atlantic to report on disinformation and extremism, and Julie Beck, Ellen Cushing, and Matteo Wong moving to staff writers. Read their work and more about these moves:

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wrote something really important theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Our definition of literary significance is wider, deeper, and weirder than it’s ever been. So what makes a great American novel? These are the 136 books that made The Atlantic’s list. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

JUST ANNOUNCED: #NOLABookFest opening night with The Atlantic on March 14! The lineup features speakers, including Walter Isaacson, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ellen Cushing, Jane Yong Kim, Clint Smith, Jemele Hill, and Jesmyn Ward.

More details: bookfest.tulane.edu/news/opening-n…

Nick is an extraordinary talent. What a windfall for whichever newsroom lucks into scooping him up just as the election begins in earnest.

take my culture recs - I'm always right! theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

As long as I've been writing about technology, friends and strangers have been asking me what they, personally, should do about Big Tech and its growing power. My answer has always been the same: Cancel your Amazon Prime account. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

BFN forever <3

tomorrow -- Lizzie Plaugic and i will be talking about our email newsletter FAMOUS PEOPLE, now a book called ON NOBODY FAMOUS, with the great Ellen Cushing!! in one of the best buildings in new york

Phospho-seq: Integrated, multi-modal profiling of intracellular protein dynamics in single cells biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genomic

Happy Friday! Here's a bleak, pessimistic essay on Ken Burns' The U.S. and the Holocaust, the conspiracy theory docuseries Shadowland, and what's at stake when people are willing to kill and die over paranoid delusions time.com/6216093/shadow…

1/ Based on the original project from @theatlantic comes Shadowland, a 6-part series revealing how conspiracy theories can disrupt family, friends, and a nation. Premiering at #TAF22 .

Go behind-the-scenes with stories from staffers featured in the series ⬇️

Shadowland, a 6-part docuseries revealing how conspiracy theories have moved farther into the mainstream, is streaming now.

Several months ago James Robinson asked me to describe the experience of stuttering for a short The New York Times documentary. This is what I said.....(1/3) nytimes.com/2022/08/23/opi…

At the Aspen Times, I had a front row seat for corporate censors and thin-skinned billionaires stifling the free press. I wrote about it all for The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…