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Weirdly, Gamers Are More Scrupulous Than Scientists
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
In the competitive pursuit of speedrunning, gamers vie to complete a given video game as quickly as humanly possible . It’s a sport for the nerdier among us, and it’s amazingly popular. Videos streaming and recording speedruns routinely rack up seven-figure view counts on Twitch and YouTube. So when one very prominent speedrunner—a U.S ... [ Read ... [ Read ... .
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The Surfside Tower Was Just Another Condo Building
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
A fter most of a condominium tower in Surfside, Florida, collapsed last week, the second-guessing began almost immediately. Some residents accused the building’s condominium association of acting too slowly to address known structural flaws identified in a 2018 engineering report. Recent news stories have emphasized dissension among the owners ... .
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It’s Trump’s Ohio Now
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
I n another lifetime, Representative Anthony Gonzalez was the Ohio Republican Party’s dream candidate. Many of his future suburban-Cleveland constituents cheered for him at Byers Field when he was a high-school-football standout at St. Ignatius, and later again at the Shoe in Columbus during his star turn as an Ohio State University wide receiver ... D ... .
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What Is Politeness Now?
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
The abrupt abandonment of handshakes and hugs. An expansion of personal space in public to six feet. And detailed conversations preceding any social plans about who else was invited and what risky behaviors they might have recently engaged in ... For many people, this might feel like etiquette whiplash ... [ Read ... Instead, our guiding light is this idea ... 1 ... .
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The Only Thing Integrating America
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
Stephen Menendian, a researcher at UC Berkeley, has long worried that Americans don’t understand how pervasive housing segregation is. They couldn’t, he reasoned. Much of the research on it has failed to fully capture its scope ... According to the dissimilarity index alone, America is more integrated now than at any point in the 20th century ... [ Read ... .
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This Sure Looks Like Tax Fraud
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
If the facts alleged in yesterday’s indictment are true, the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have engaged in blatant tax evasion for more than a decade. Early reports characterized the crime in question as involving “fringe benefits.” This gives entirely the wrong impression ... (The U.S ... [ Annie Lowrey ... .
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The Atlantic Daily: Only Congress Can Save Voting Rights Now
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. In the legal battle over who gets to vote in America, Republicans just scored a point ... 1. A decision like this was inevitable ... — Vann R ... ...
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The Books Briefing: The Quiet Skill of Mass-Market Novels
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
In dozens of novels written over a decades-long career, the romance writer Jackie Collins sharply observed the role of sex and power in Hollywood . She wrote incisively about abuse in the industry and empowered female characters who found liberation in a male-dominated world ... A few crowd-pleasing authors do escape this trap ... What We’re Reading ... .
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The Near-Holy Experience of Watching Euro 2020
The Atlantic 02 Jul 2021
After having been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the quadrennial European soccer championship began in June, hosted by 11 different cities across the continent ... It was a strange and often disorienting experience. Watching the season on television, viewers could feel the hollowness of the stadiums echo through the screen ... .
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How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered
The Atlantic 01 Jul 2021
In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for The New Yorker , a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war ... They were particularly interested in my view of the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and his role in the debacle ... He lacked the courage to doubt himself ... government.
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The Atlantic Daily : Bill Cosby’s Release Is Not an Exoneration
The Atlantic 01 Jul 2021
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Matt Slocum / AP Bill Cosby is a free man again ... Cosby’s case remains one of the most high-profile of the #MeToo movement ... Here’s what she had to say.
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The Myth of China’s Strategic Patience
The Atlantic 01 Jul 2021
The oft-repeated compliment paid to China’s leaders is that they “play the long game.” Masters of strategic thinking, the narrative goes, Beijing’s top cadres are always looking far ahead—planning, preparing, and plotting for the future ... But then there’s the curious case of China’s impending demographic disaster ... The problem is nothing new ... [ Read ... .
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Inside the Mind of a Happy Patriot
The Atlantic 01 Jul 2021
“ How to Build a Life ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection,” Thomas Paine wrote in his pamphlet series The American Crisis ... These threats have failed to bring out the happy patriot in us ... 1 ... 2 ... .
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3 Principles Now Define the Pandemic
The Atlantic 01 Jul 2021
Fifteen months after the novel coronavirus shut down much of the world, the pandemic is still raging. Few experts guessed that by this point, the world would have not one vaccine but many, with 3 billion doses already delivered. At the same time, the coronavirus has evolved into super-transmissible variants that spread more easily ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... .
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