~best-of-the-atlanti | Bookmarks (1084)
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The Ultimate Antidote to Toxic Behavior Online
Changing your perception and withholding your attention are great ways of regaining control over online abuse.
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The Fantasy of a Nonprofit Dating App
Imagine if digital matchmakers had no financial incentives.
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The Trump Backers Who Have Buyer’s Remorse
With every new policy and offhand remark, Trump belies the imaginary versions of himself that inspired...
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The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping
Despite ever-higher sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down.
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Americans Are Stuck. Who’s to Blame?
Yoni Appelbaum on his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine...
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The End of the Postwar World
Trump and Vance are sending a dark message to America’s allies.
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The Trump World Order
In the MAGA vision of the national interest, might will make right.
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This Is What Happens When the DOGE Guys Take Over
Inside the federal agencies where Elon Musk’s people have seized control, fear and uncertainty reign.
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A Terrible Milestone in the American Presidency
Trump switches sides in the war for freedom.
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A Trump Cabinet Pick Gets a Rare GOP Grilling
The fate of Lori Chavez-DeRemer could show whether Trump will soften the party’s long-standing opposition to...
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DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data
The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many...
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The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials
NIH officials said they were given no advance warning and less than an hour to post...
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A Cautionary Tale for Trump Appointees
The evidence of the past few days suggests they are all deluding themselves.
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Intimidating Americans Will Not Work
Trump is punishing Americans who don’t say the words he likes best. That’s not how it...
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Trump Hands the World to China
Xi Jinping could only have dreamed of such rapid destruction of American power.
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Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
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Why People Feel Nostalgic for Terrible Times
Some people miss the early, eerie first few months of the pandemic, when time seemed to...
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Trump Could Start a New Pipeline Fight
A tax credit for carbon capture has fans in the oil industry.
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A Divorce Memoir With No Lessons
Haley Mlotek’s new book provides neither catharsis nor remedies for heartache, but rather a tender exploration...
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Who Is Running the United States, Musk or Trump?
In an interview with Sean Hannity, three men demonstrated that they have no idea how American...
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The New, Unsettling Truth at the Heart of 'Yellowjackets'
Its characters can never truly escape danger, in the past or present.