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What Joe Biden's Global Legacy Might Be

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

For the past 16 years, we in Europe have witnessed the Merkelization of the continent. Resentments bubble away; crises are managed, not resolved; time is played for; reform is incremental and then, suddenly, unilateral; and, in the end, stasis reigns ... In a globalized world, this kind of provincialism and incrementalism has merit ... Why isn’t the U.S ... .

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Democrats Have Made Their Peace With Dark Money

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

In a trendy co-working space in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle—where people wear Chucks and fuss about fancy coffee—lies the progressive movement’s empire of political cash ... The groups that spend money this way tend to have innocuous-sounding names and promiscuously spawn mini-organizations that take up particular state and local causes ... [ Read ... .

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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

Christopher Anderson / Magnum Few choices are more important than whether to have children, and psychologists and other social scientists have worked to figure out what having kids means for happiness. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field have argued that if you want to be happy, it’s best to be childless ... [ Read. It isn’t the kids ... .

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What Can Liberals on the Supreme Court Do Now?

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

B y the time the Supreme Court started its new term on the first Monday of October, a tumultuous summer of midnight orders and unsigned opinions had left no doubt about who was in charge ... The best the liberals can hope for now, even with the chief justice on their side, is a 5–4 loss ... her voice ... [ Read ... Quite the opposite ... [ Read ... She had no bridges ... .

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The Pandemic Is Still Making Us Feel Terrible

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

“How we feelin’ out there tonight?” Bo Burnham asks an imaginary audience during his comedy special Inside , which he self-filmed from a single room over the course of a year. “Heh, haha, yeahhhhh,” he says to himself. “I am not feeling good.” Following the special’s release this past May , TikTok users pounced on the clip ... Just like Bo said ... H ... .

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Introducing Nine New Newsletters

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

Back in the day (“the day” being roughly 2009) The Atlantic’ s website was home to a particularly rambunctious set of bloggers ... (I was a member of this disputatious collective, but I was, at best, its sixth-most-talented contributor. I was, however, the third- or fourth-most-rambunctious) ... Nor is this the end of our newsletter experiment ... .

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The Atlantic Daily: Trumpism Is on the Ballot

The Atlantic 02 Nov 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. Now that it’s November, Americans can partake in their favorite seasonal activities, such as baking pies and casting ballots ... One question, answered ... .

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Language loss and medicinal plant knowledge

PNAS 02 Nov 2021

Rodrigo Camara-Leret explains impact of indigenous language extinction on medicinal plant knowledge. Image credit. Pixabay/DEZALB ... .

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How to Find Purpose at Work

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

Listen & subscribe. Apple Podcasts . Spotify . Stitcher . Googl e . Pocket Casts The road to purposeful work is paved with good intentions, but for many, happiness at work can feel like a hopeless cause ... We’ll also talk about why authenticity is vital to strong leadership and “walking the talk,” and how to factor emotional needs into our workplaces ... Lim ... .

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Sorry for Your Loss. Now Get Back to Work.

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

The extent of our collective bereavement in the United States today is staggering. With more than 740,000 Americans dead from COVID-19, the country is grappling with an onslaught of grief . Some 72 percent of Americans say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died from COVID-19 ... The U.S ... [ Read ... [ Read ... .

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Americans Didn’t Used to Celebrate Birthdays

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

The idea that everyone should celebrate their birthday is, weirdly, not very old itself. Not until the 19th century—perhaps around 1860 or 1880—did middle-class Americans commonly do so, and not until the early 20th century were birthday celebrations a tradition nationwide. In fact, the song “Happy Birthday” is not far beyond its own 100th birthday .

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Tonight Is a Test of What Trumpism Could Be Without Trump

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

The fundamental question facing the Republican Party, and by extension the nation, is whether there can be a Trumpism without Donald Trump, and if so, what it would look like. Today’s gubernatorial election in Virginia will offer one of the most important clues about those questions ... [ Read ... Independent voters seem to be flocking to the Republican ... .

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The Anti-abortion Movement Will Win Even If It Loses

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

For anti-abortion activists, Texas’s recent law, Senate Bill 8, must have seemed like magic—a way to stop abortion immediately, without the grind of constitutional litigation and its attendant legal fees ... For abortion foes, it must have all seemed too good to be true. The Court doesn’t seem sold on S.B. 8 anymore ... [ Adam Serwer ... The S.B ... [ Mary Ziegler ... .

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Microsoft launches Azure Container Apps, a new serverless container service

Crunch 02 Nov 2021

Microsoft notes that Azure Container Apps was specifically built for microservices, with the ability to quickly scale based on HTTP traffic, events or long-running background jobs ... Google meanwhile also offers a set of container-centric services, including Cloud Run, its serverless platform for running container-based applications ... .

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Why Are We Microdosing Vaccines for Kids?

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

In the months since Pfizer announced its plans to adapt its COVID-19 vaccine for kids, the nicknames have been rolling in. Lil Pfizer, Pfizer-Mini, Pfizer Jr. (sorry, BioNTech; everyone tends to forget you). Others offer a cheeky play on Comirnaty, the shot’s tongue-twisting official title ... It sounds, at first, like some pretty weird COVID math ... [ Read.