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Don't Let Trump Exhaust You
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.The Trump campaign is trying to turn the electoral process into a moral swamp. Voters are going to have to pace themselves to get to November.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Joe Biden lowered drug prices. Does anyone care?
The Trump two-step
"Crying myself to sleep on the biggest...
Solar Eclipses Are Always With Us
Marina Koren
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.Cosmically speaking, the alignment of Earth, the sun, and the moon is ordinary. But from our corner of the universe, the occurrence produces something wondrous: a total solar eclipse. On April 8, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow along a narrow strip of the country, from Texas to Maine. Outside this path, th...
A Great Day for <em>The Atlantic</em>
Jeffrey Goldberg
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.Pardon the interruption, but I'm breaking into our regular programming to share some good news about The Atlantic.First, here are three new stories that are worth your time:
The coming birth-control revolution
The politics of gun safety are changing.
There is more good than evil in this country.
Exce...
The Atlantic's 2024 National Magazine Award Winners and Finalists
The Editors
For the third consecutive year, The Atlantic has won the top honor of General Excellence for a News, Sports, and Entertainment publication at the 2024 National Magazine Awards.Below is a list of the stories that received recognition from the American Society of Magazine Editors:Winner: Profile Writing"Inside the Meltdown at CNN"
Mark Peterson / Redux for The Atlantic
By Tim AlbertaCEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network's reputation for serious journalism. How did it all g...
The Big Money of College Basketball
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.My personal foray into college-basketball fandom comes at a transformational time for the sport, as players accept major promotional deals and gambling reshapes the economics of the game.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
A deadly strike in Gaza
What the suburb haters don't understan...
Supporting Trump Means Supporting a Culture of Violence
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.Over the weekend, Donald Trump sent out a video with an image of Joe Biden bound like a hostage, and linked to an article with a photo of the daughter of the judge in his hush-money trial in New York. Voters need to confront the reality of what supporting Trump means.First, here are three new stories fr...
An Unconventional Spy Show
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 Sarah Zhang, a staff writer who has covered the life-changing impact of a major cystic-fibrosis breakthrough, the true prevalence of incest, and wh...
What Restaurant Behavior Says About a Person
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."How you behave in a restaurant is how you behave in life." Ever since I heard that observation from a friend years ago, I've wondered why it hasn't become a more common aphorism. Dining out can be an opportunity to see a person at their hungriest, their showiest, their most human. Do they yell at wai...
How AI Is Reshaping Foreign-Language Education
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.When I was a kid, I felt hypnotized by the shelves in my best friend's apartment. They contained, it seemed, endless volumes of Japanese-language books--including, most crucially to a child's eye, comics such as Dragon Ball and Urusei Yatsura. I was gazing at an impossibly distant world; I wanted so badly to comprehend the stories on th...
Obama, the Protagonist
Gal Beckerman
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.Vinson Cunningham's new novel, Great Expectations, is a thinly veiled fictional account of his own experience as a young man ...
Evan Gershkovich's Year in Captivity
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.Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has now been held in Russia's infamous Lefortovo prison for a year. It looks like he's going to be in Russia even longer: This week, a Russian court extended his pretrial detention by three more months, meaning that he will not have his case hear...