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Is the Shorter Workweek All It Promises to Be?
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.A new bill advocates for a 32-hour workweek. Can this approach cure what ails American workers?First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
How it all went wrong for Eric Adams
It's not the economy. It's the pandemic.
David Frum: "Miranda's last gift"
A New NormLast week, Senators Bernie Sand...
The Art of Communing With Trees
Rachel Gutman-Wei
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.Trees can seem like timeless beings. Many a giant sequoia has racked up three millennia on this Earth. A pine in California's White Mountains is estimated to be nearly 5,000 years old. A colony of aspens in Utah may well have originated during the Stone Age, and to this day, its leaves glitter gold in the autumn sun.A tree's life span, ...
Trump's Dangerous January 6-Pardon Promise
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.Donald Trump's plan to pardon people in prison for their crimes on January 6--people he now calls "hostages"--is yet another dangerous and un-American attack on the rule of law.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
The British right's favorite sex offender
What Trump supporters think when...
How America Got Scammed
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.People are more susceptible to scams than they may think--and Americans are losing more money to fraud than ever.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's ego has crash-landed.
Christine Blasey Ford testifies again.
Universities have a computer-science problem.
Falling for Fr...
Putin's Nuclear Theatrics
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.Last spring, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would station nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. Evidence suggests that this move is imminent, but it is strategically meaningless.First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
Why Oregon's drug decriminalization failed
DNA tests are unc...
The Smart Way to Order Good Wine
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 Charlie Warzel, a staff writer and the author of the Galaxy Brain newsletter. He has reported on the information dystopia embodied by the recent Ka...
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;...