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How to Teach the Thrill of Reading
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.This week, The Atlantic published its list of the 136 most significant American novels of the past century. "Our goal was to single out those classics that stand the test of time, but also to make the case for the unexpected, the unfairly forgotten, and the recently published works that already feel i...
The TV Shows That Don't Solve Their Mysteries
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.It's Friday, and we've probably all had enough of political news, so instead I'm going to gripe about the decline of my favorite kind of television: "mystery box" shows that center on a secret or a conspiracy. The conceit has gotten out of control.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Th...
Choosing America's Greatest Novels
Gal Beckerman
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors' weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.The idea of a settled canon, one that towers Mount Rushmore-like above us, is boring. I'll admit that some books and authors, after enough centuries have passed and their influence seems without question, should have their names etched in stone (although even The Iliad and Shakespeare can occasionally stir up a fight). But our sense of which novels matter most is otherwise always fluid--what was once tasteful is now tedious;...
The Hidden Toll of Surviving Layoffs
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.Workers who keep their jobs after layoffs are considered the lucky ones. Still, dealing with the stress and guilt of a changed workplace can be harrowing for those unsure if they will be next.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
The Great American Novels
The Supreme Court's supreme bet...
The Persistent Mystery of Protein Intake
Andrea Valdez
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.If nutritional information were a slice of bread, we'd be living in a world full of dense 24-grain-and-seed loaves. The internet is stuffed with listicles, tips, and tricks for consuming the right ratio of "macros" (fats, carbs, and proteins). Rows and rows of vitamins and supplements fill pharmacy aisles. Calorie-counting apps track ev...
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)...
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...