In which Saahil Desai reveals a disturbing secret ... the government isn't actually terrible at technology anymore
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“The idea that we must enact barriers to foreign-government surveillance and political interference is actually a very old one, embedded in both American history and the logic of democratic self-determination”

Compelling piece from ⁦Zephyr Teachout⁩ theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I wrote about Caitlin Clark for The Atlantic. More to the point, I wrote about how college sports changed dramatically in a short time with Clark at the tip of the spear: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Great piece by Alex Kirshner on how women came to dominate the ranks of the college sports superstar: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I'll start: the exclusion of Lonesome Dove will damn us in the eyes of future generations, and may God have mercy on our souls.

Tip from an Atlantic insider: the correct way to read this list is to immediately ⌘F, search for the title of your favorite novel, and then tweet angrily when you see it isn't there theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

I would be extremely sad to see TikTok go, for professional and personal reasons, but it can't be ignored that much of America simply isn't thinking about TikTok at all. For The Atlantic ! theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

On post-Elon twitter, my tweets get zero engagement except when someone I don't even know chimes in to tell me I'm an idiot

Making SAT scores optional has a perverse effect: low-income kids who *mistakenly* think their scores aren't good enough leave them off their applications, lowering their chances for admission. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

You can debunk some of crypto some of the time, but you can't debunk all of it all of the time theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My favorite part of this article is the suggestion that America being too incompetent to pay employers not to lay off their workers (unlike Europe) was an inadvertently awesome move theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

There's a debate going on about how much income inequality has really risen. But both sides turn out to be talking about something totally different from how any ordinary person thinks about inequality: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Update: it is, in fact, an old one

“Birth control causes single-motherhood” is certainly a new one

Yap 👏 about 👏 the 👏 weather 👏
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Begging America’s nonfiction authors to choose chapter titles that actually indicate what’s covered in each chapter

With the rise of legalized betting, the odds (if you will) of misconduct in sports go way up. Where are the watchdogs?

Keith O'Brien on the Incredible Shrinking Sports Reporter:

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From my colleague Phil Longman:

'The fundamental problem in air travel today is not lack of competition; it’s the lack of sensible regulation to channel competition to public purposes.'

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The blocked JetBlue-Spirit merger was a big deal for antitrust. But until we bring back comprehensive airline regulation, the industry is going to stay locked in a race to the bottom.
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This is such an important piece:

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In 2022/23, America had a murder spike and an inflation spike. We enter 2024 with both murder and inflation rates falling back to normal.