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Solving a Century-Old Byline Mystery
Shan Wang
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."Do you like to know whom a book's by?" E. M. Forster asks in a 1925 essay on the question of anonymity in literature and journalism. The practice is fine in fiction, he argues, but not in news writing. Forster, however, wasn't in charge: His essay, which appeared in the November 1925 issue of The Atlantic, was followed by an article by...
How Climate Change Is Making Allergy Season Worse
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.Rising temperatures are leading to what my colleague Yasmin Tayag has called an "allergy apocalypse." I spoke with Yasmin, who covers science for The Atlantic, about our ever-expanding allergy season, the relationship between rising temperatures and pollen, and the extent to which pollen may rob us of t...
Trump's Lucky Break
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.Donald Trump has built up his reputation as a rich guy. When he ended up unable to cover a massive bond, the courts threw him a lifeline, but just for now.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
The aftermath of the Baltimore bridge collapse
The Supreme Court is shaming itself.
The war a...
Russia's Tragedy, Putin's Humiliation
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.Terrorists struck deep inside Russia on Friday, and the conspiracy theories are already spinning.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's nine lives
What was NBC even thinking?
Social media is not what killed the web.
Three RealitiesIf you are trying to figure out who attac...
The Joys of Chronic Rewatching
Isabel Fattal
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 Stephanie Bai, an associate editor whose byline you might recognize from past editions of The Daily. Stephanie recently joined The Atlantic's newsl...
The Inner World of the Teen
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.Teens exist in the murky space between youth and maturity--and in decades past, when the teen babysitter was a staple of American life, adults seemed to understand that. They recognized, my colleague Faith Hill writes in a new essay, that the teen babysitter "was grown-up enough to be an extra eye in t...
How America Stopped Trusting the Experts
Isabel Fattal
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 2017, my Daily colleague Tom Nichols wrote a book titled The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters. Three years later, America underwent a crisis that stress-tested citizens' and political leaders' faith in experts--with alarming results.The Atlantic publish...
The Wrong Way to Study AI in College
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.Earlier this week, my colleague Ian Bogost published a provocative article about a trend in higher education: the opening of distinct colleges of computing, akin to law schools. New programs at MIT, Cornell, and soon UC Berkeley follow an uptick in the number of students graduating with computer-science majors. They are serving a growi...
Reading as a Sensory Experience
Maya Chung
Join Atlantic editors Jane Yong Kim, Gal Beckerman, and Ellen Cushing in conversation with executive editor Adrienne LaFrance for a discussion of "The Great American Novels," an ambitious new editorial project from The Atlantic. The conversation will take place at The Strand in New York (828 Broadway) on Wednesday, April 3, at 7 p.m. Tickets are available for purchase here.When your senses feel numb, you're likely to seek direct experiences: You might bite into a crisp slice of watermelon to tast...
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...