The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesDonald Trump Why Trump Isn’t Trying to Bring Down Bernie Sanders The Atlantic - Peter NicholasHis team seems to see the senator from Vermont’s candidacy as a no-lose proposition. Not so long ago, Donald Trump seemed obsessed with just one of the Democrats vying to replace him: Joe Biden. Over past
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesWorld News Photos of the Week: Carnival Colors, Medieval Combat, Avalanche Training The Atlantic - Alan TaylorRecovery on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, coronavirus containment efforts in China, biathlon World Championships in Italy, fashion shows in Paris, fighting in Syria, bobsled competition in Germany, rioting
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesU.S. Politics The Atlantic Politics Daily: Bernie’s Big Vulnerability The Atlantic - Saahil DesaiChristian PazWhat Bernie Sanders’s 2020 rivals learned from 2016 Hillary Clinton. Plus: Venezuela is the eerie endgame of modern politics. It’s Thursday, February 27. In today’s newsletter: What Bernie Sanders’s 2020
The Atlanticflipped into HealthMedicine The Opioid Epidemic Might Be Much Worse Than We Thought The Atlantic - Olga KhazanA new paper suggests that death certificates dramatically undercounted the number of people dying from opioid overdoses. It can be hard to comprehend the true scope of something as disastrous as the opioid
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesScience Earth Has Had a Secret Second Moon for Months Now The Atlantic - Marina KorenThis is going to sound preposterous, but I promise it’s true: Earth has another moon. It is not the kind that will illuminate the night sky. It’s invisible to the naked eye and too tiny to do any classic
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesLeigh Whannell This Time, The Invisible Man Is Really About a Woman The Atlantic - David SimsLeigh Whannell’s update of the classic horror story follows an abuse survivor being terrorized by her ex. The first cinematic adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man came in 1933, when the height
The Atlanticflipped into GlobalPhotos Scenes From Milan Fashion Week 2020 The Atlantic - Alan Taylor A collection of photographs from Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2020/21, with runway shows put on by Versace, Gucci, Moschino, Philipp Plein, Moncler, and many more
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesTechnology Cameo Is Weirder Than Anyone Expected The Atlantic - John CullenStefan HeckWelcome to the dark, chaotic, utterly mesmerizing soul of modern celebrity. Pretend for a moment that your lifelong dream is to pay $400 for a 16-second video of the Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil mispronouncing
The Atlanticflipped into HealthScience A Bold and Controversial Idea for Making Breast Milk The Atlantic - Sarah ZhangThe obsession with breastfeeding has inspired a start-up to make human milk outside the human body. The inconvenient truth about breastfeeding is that breasts are, invariably, attached to a person. A who
The Atlanticflipped into IdeasNews (Hong Kong) Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society The Atlantic - Graeme WoodThe government has refused to impose quarantines and is encouraging people to visit the city of Qom, the center of the outbreak. Picture the following sacred but unhygienic scene: Pilgrims from a dozen
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesDonald Trump Enacting Trump’s Revenge Campaign The Atlantic - John GansThe cuts to the National Security Council have less to do with making government better than with making it purer. When it comes to the National Security Council, even a deeply divided Washington has agreed
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesWilliam Barr Trump’s DOJ Interference Is Actually Not Crazy The Atlantic - Mario LoyolaIn Trump’s mind, he is not politicizing law enforcement. On the contrary, he is trying to fight politicization coming from his opponents within the department. After President Donald Trump appeared to
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesPolitics The Party of Idolaters The Atlantic - Reed Galen, John Weaver, Rick WilsonThe Republican Party, which some of us still hope to reform and which others have left, no longer deals in principle, morality, or the pursuit of the common welfare. On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesNews (Hong Kong) I Prepared for Everything, but Not Coronavirus on a Cruise Ship The Atlantic - Gay CourterLast year, I published a thriller set on a cruise. A few weeks ago, I found myself quarantined on the Diamond Princess. Some bad outcomes, you half expect: This time the mammogram will detect an abnormality;
The Atlanticflipped into IdeasVenezuela Venezuela Is the Eerie Endgame of Modern Politics The Atlantic - Anne ApplebaumCitizens of a once-prosperous nation live amid the havoc created by socialism, illiberal nationalism, and political polarization. Last month, Juan Guaidó appeared in Washington in the role of political
The Atlanticflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics What Bernie Sanders’s 2020 Rivals Learned From Hillary Clinton The Atlantic - Russell BermanThe senator from Vermont’s record on guns is once again under attack as he hopes to solidify his front-runner status. It was a rare admission of wrongdoing from Bernie Sanders. “I’ve cast thousands of
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesWorld News Feminism’s Purity Wars The Atlantic - Helen LewisWhy has Erin Pizzey, once a pioneer of the women’s movement, been written out of its history? Erin Pizzey ought to be a feminist hero. In 1971, she founded the first women’s refuge in Britain, with no
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesU.S. Politics The Atlantic Politics Daily: How Much Does a Revolution Cost? The Atlantic - Shan WangThe rough answer is $60 trillion—the price tag on Bernie Sanders’s agenda. Plus: What nonvoters want (hint: it’s not always the more progressive option). It’s Wednesday, February 26. In today’s newsletter:
The Atlanticflipped into BooksCulture The Most Unadaptable Book in Fiction The Atlantic - Sophie GilbertDee Rees’s new Netflix film tackles the Joan Didion novel The Last Thing He Wanted. It may have been a futile task. There are a few moments, reading Joan Didion’s 1996 novel, The Last Thing He Wanted,
The Atlanticflipped into TechnologyTechnology The Hard Drive With 68 Billion Melodies The Atlantic - Alexis C. MadrigalIn an era when millions of songwriters upload music to the internet—and just about any song can be plucked from obscurity by TikTok teens—it seems inevitable that the same melodies end up in different
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesCulture The Peter Pan Story Has Lost Its Magic The Atlantic - David SimsWendy, Benh Zeitlin’s visually stunning new film, attempts to reinvigorate an overused tale—and fails. What is it about Peter Pan? The essential themes of J. M. Barrie’s 1904 “fairy play” have been repeated
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesU.S. Politics The Democrats’ Dictator Problem The Atlantic - Uri FriedmanThe candidates’ attempts at moral clarity got muddled when conversation turned to the trade-offs inherent in actually conducting American statecraft. If there’s one narrative that has united the disparate
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesU.S. Politics The Sixty Trillion Dollar Man The Atlantic - Ronald BrownsteinThe price of Bernie Sanders’s agenda could be his biggest general-election weakness. But his rivals haven’t yet forced him to explain how he’d cover the full cost. Bernie Sanders faced more pointed attacks
The Atlanticflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics The Loudest Debate Yet The Atlantic - Russell BermanDays before two race-defining contests, the seven Democrats seemed worried about what’s next. The seven Democrats vying for the party’s presidential nomination shouted their way through the 10th debate
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesWelfare The Enemy of Poor Americans The Atlantic - Adam CohenOver the past half century, the Supreme Court’s empathy for the poor has been replaced by hostility. In June 1968, the Supreme Court issued a 9–0 ruling giving back Sylvester Smith and her four young their
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesKids The Chart That Reveals Your Kid’s Adult Height The Atlantic - Emily OsterResearchers crunched longitudinal data to provide a simple predictive equation, and a chart. “He’s going to be really tall!” exclaims your mother-in-law, watching your 2-year-old run in circles around
The Atlanticflipped into GlobalDonald Trump Trump’s Intelligence War Is Also an Election Story The Atlantic - Mike GiglioWith a loyalist as acting director of national intelligence, the official line on issues like Russian election meddling could bend closer to the president’s. It was November 2017, after a meeting with
The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesSports What Nonvoters Want The Atlantic - Yascha MounkSenator Bernie Sanders is now the front-runner in the Democratic primary. As he has risen in the polls, so has a theory about elections: The key to a progressive victory is motivating previous nonvoters
The Atlanticflipped into IdeasPolitics Trump’s Quiet Power Grab The Atlantic - Peter M. ShaneThe president’s administration is attempting to bring thousands of federal employees under his control, and the public is largely unaware. Throughout the federal government are thousands of officials do
The Atlanticflipped into CultureCulture What Stories About Racial Trauma Leave Out The Atlantic - Joe FasslerThe poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong depicts the everyday effects of prejudice in a way readers can’t leave behind. By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages
