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We're Already Living in the Post-Truth Era
Damon Beres
This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here.For years, experts have worried that artificial intelligence will produce a new disinformation crisis on the internet. Image-, audio-, and video-generating tools allow people to rapidly create high-quality fakes to spread on social media, potentially tricking people into believing fiction is fact. But as my colleague Charlie Warzel wri...
Donald Trump Is a National-Security Risk
Tom Nichols
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Since 1952, the White House has allowed major-party candidates access to classified intelligence briefings so that they will be current on important issues if they win the election. Trump should be denied this courtesy.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
How Hur misled the country on B...
Could a TikTok Ban Actually Happen?
Lora Kelley
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Efforts to crack down on TikTok are picking up momentum in Congress. What was once a Trump-led effort boosted by Republicans has since become a bipartisan priority for lawmakers hoping to look tough on China in an election year.First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
The return of measles
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What Jimmy Kimmel Did Right
Lora Kelley
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Last night, Jimmy Kimmel presided over a surprisingly normal Academy Awards show. The program ran smoothly with no true upsets. Oppenheimer took home a predicted haul, Ryan Gosling brought down the house with his performance of Barbie's "I'm Just Ken," and Kimmel made some mostly good-natured ribs about...
Ben Affleck Is More Than a Dunkin' Donuts Meme
Stephanie Bai
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Gilad Edelman, a senior editor at The Atlantic who has written about the rising cost of English muffins (and the source of our economic discontent)...
The Mysteries Around Us
Isabel Fattal
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.A Columbia historian said he'd discovered evidence of a lost sacred text with scandalous implications about the life of Jesus. Was it a fake? In a new Atlantic feature, the writer Ariel Sabar reports on the bitter ongoing debate--and the largely unexamined early life of the man who found it.The story i...
Biden Is Serious About His Candy-Bar Crusade
Lora Kelley
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.In his State of the Union address last night, President Joe Biden took on a new symbolic foe: shrinkflation. In attacking the practice, he's trying to signal that he's aligned with the common American against corporate greed--even if it's not clear what he can actually do about the problem.First, here ar...
What to Read Ahead of the Oscars
Emma Sarappo
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors' weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.As the 96th Oscars approach, I've been thinking about how closely intertwined Hollywood and the literary world are. Arguably, publishing's biggest contribution to the movies today is providing an intellectual-property source for new projects. Lots of films in the running for statues, such as Oppenheimer, American Fiction, The Zone of Interest, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon, ...
The Republican Coping Goes Into Overdrive
Tom Nichols
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Americans claim to dread a Trump-Biden rematch, but some Republicans seem more stunned than anyone else that Trump is back on the ballot. Now they are desperately trying to rationalize supporting their nominee.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Trump's money problems are very real and...
Do the Oscars Still Mean Anything?
Amy Weiss-Meyer
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic's archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here."Hollywood is easy to hate, easy to sneer at, easy to lampoon," Raymond Chandler wrote in The Atlantic in 1945.Chandler, at the time already a popular author of detective fiction, had lately begun working as a screenwriter, but he still considered himself an outsider in the movie business. "I hold no brief for Hollywood," Chandler wrote...
AI Could Help Translate Alien Languages
Matteo Wong
This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which The Atlantic's leading thinkers on AI will help you understand the complexity and opportunities of this groundbreaking technology. Sign up here.Whale songs have long been an obsession for scientists, science-fiction readers, and popular culture alike. Are they something like an alien language? And what do they say about how the minds of these giant creatures operate? Decades after the first whale song was recorded, artificial intelligen...