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@newyorker.com
, fmr. assistant ed
@theatlantic.com
pinned post!
The Atlantic's April cover story is a real feat. It was an honor to work with
@mckaycoppins.bsky.social
on it over the past year: "The fight over the trust was the culmination of a decades-long story—one that James decided he was finally ready to tell."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/rupert-murdoch-family-succession-james-murdoch/681675/?gift=pV0onWCnkPHOIR6AQkPb5fBpvkHhirU0RZ47kWE7c7s&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
about 1 year ago
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The New Yorker
8 days ago
For aspiring writers, the rooms of literary figures—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion—are talismanic sites. But the quest to find the ideal creative space is often self-defeating, Joshua Rothman writes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/d7BMjI
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The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
For aspiring writers, the rooms of literary figures—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion—are talismanic sites. But the quest to find the ideal creative space is often self-defeating, Joshua Rothman writes.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/d7BMjI
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The New Yorker
14 days ago
Alfred Tennyson’s poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yQJZUr
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In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yQJZUr
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The New York Times
20 days ago
Martin Weil, one of hundreds of journalists being let go at The Washington Post, has worked on local news there since 1965.
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He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
Martin Weil, one of hundreds being let go at The Post, has worked on local news there since 1965, witnessing the paper’s rise and now retrenchment.
https://nyti.ms/4r2TsRE
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The New Yorker
26 days ago
Dr. Gideon Koren was one of Canada’s leading pediatricians and toxicologists—but some of his work was revealed to be deeply flawed.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CqEdlt
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Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?
After a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CqEdlt
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The New Yorker
30 days ago
The cover of this week’s issue, “New York’s Toughest,” by Peter de Sève. Start exploring:
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qARBiP
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The New Yorker
30 days ago
“The existence of so many real and unvarnished images of [Alex] Pretti’s killing posed a problem that Trump’s underlings have tried to patch up with words,” Vinson Cunningham writes.
www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
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Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis
Videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/witnessing-another-public-killing-in-minneapolis
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Michael Leibel
2 months ago
“A version of the problem exists on the opposite side of the age spectrum, too: instead of a phone-based childhood, a phone-based retirement.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
’s great piece in The Atlantic
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Do Your Parents Have a Screen-Time Problem?
The phone-based retirement is here.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/do-your-parents-have-screen-time-problem/685424/?gift=QF4h9v9WbNuG-A0MCoxzOG_7nHfAuC3AonLJ0GpL_1M
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The Atlantic
2 months ago
“My parents looked so old / and small next to them. Whose life was this size? / Up close, the gold paint was scotched and chipping.” Read a new poem by Drew Rollins:
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Theft
A poem
https://bit.ly/45ozkjT
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The Atlantic
2 months ago
Jollibee began as a response to demand for American fast food in a postcolonial Philippines. Now, the chain has designs on becoming one of the top restaurant companies in the world—and is reshaping the American palate, Yasmin Tayag reports:
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Postcolonial Chicken
The U.S. introduced fast food to the Philippines. Now Jollibee is serving it back to America.
https://bit.ly/44z1bxw
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Jake Berg
2 months ago
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34?st=V2XjZM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Damon Beres
2 months ago
School shootings now common enough that two students at Brown yesterday had experienced one before
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2 Students at Brown Witnessed School Shootings as Children
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/brown-students-mass-shooting-parkland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The Atlantic
2 months ago
“I uncover / orange embers, carry them / to a covered grill, and, glancing up, / see the stars’ braille / against the night’s black page.” Read a new poem by Arthur Sze:
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Inside a Flame
A poem
https://bit.ly/4pzE5PH
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
“You will never tell me, / even if I could close / the broken skin of heaven / with my mouth.” Read a new poem by Imogen Cassels:
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Recall
A poem
https://bit.ly/48DDDc5
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Imogen Cassels' poetry is a real delight:
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
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Recall
A poem
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/12/poem-imogen-cassels-recall/685170/?gift=pV0onWCnkPHOIR6AQkPb5TS5-yaIqj3GyiCHKjOfJKI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
3 months ago
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
The Atlantic’s editors pick their favorite books of the year—10 titles that distinguish themselves as worth reading and remembering. See the full list:
theatln.tc/gaJVrZ7O
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Matteo Wong
3 months ago
Amidst more and more cases of "AI psychosis," I talked to psychiatrists to figure out we do—and more importantly don't—know about how chatbots may be producing or exacerbating severe psychological distress.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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‘AI Psychosis’ Is a Medical Mystery
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why chatbots appear to lead some people to delusional thinking.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/ai-psychosis-is-a-medical-mystery/685133/
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Jorie Graham
3 months ago
Thank you
@theatlantic.com
--editors,staff & journalists. Amazing to work with. This poem is actually for you. ( turn phone or tablet sideways to restore lines)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Eloquence
A poem by Jorie Graham
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/jorie-graham-the-eloquence/684952/
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
School photos are kitschy and expensive—but parents can’t seem to stop buying them. Annie Midori Atherton on the portrait’s enduring appeal:
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What’s the Point of School Photos Anymore?
The portraits are kitschy and expensive—but parents can’t seem to stop buying them.
https://bit.ly/4pHl65x
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Jaya Saxena
3 months ago
You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
“Let me / be more bound to my living in each moment, be held / by this hum, that cloud, this breath, that shroud.” Read a new poem by Traci Brimhall:
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This Beautiful Confusion
A poem
https://bit.ly/3KkC2je
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
“Let me / be more bound to my living in each moment, be held / by this hum, that cloud, this breath, that shroud.” Read a new poem by Traci Brimhall:
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This Beautiful Confusion
A poem
https://bit.ly/4iijqwF
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Jorie Graham
3 months ago
Guess what? Time to preorder this book! Killing Spree.
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
thank you for agreeing to this beautiful cover...❤️❤️🙏
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Alexandra Petri
3 months ago
Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/11/women-are-ruining-workplace/684999/?gift=jQN1t1D1nkO2TQodBiz5KP_lHNUALgvKnjz0MHT_ChY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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The New Yorker
3 months ago
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for Ruth Asawa, an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/ruth-asawas-art-of-defiant-hospitality
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Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/ruth-asawas-art-of-defiant-hospitality
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The New Yorker
3 months ago
It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null
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What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null
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New York Magazine
3 months ago
Five people facing increasing health-care costs share their frustrations with Democrats for caving on a deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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‘My Premium Will Go From $350 to $2,780 a Month’
Five people facing increasing health-care costs share their frustrations with Democrats for caving on a deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
https://www.thecut.com/article/democrats-caved-on-the-shutdown-these-voters-are-furious.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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"the meowppy guy"
4 months ago
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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The Atlantic
4 months ago
“Aphids toiled brittle stems as we met the dike / to rob snakehead limbs of their fruit. I gathered / persimmons, podgy maypops.” Read a new poem by Carson Colenbaugh:
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Love Song Set to a Tune of Gathering
A poem
https://bit.ly/43UaV53
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The New Yorker
4 months ago
In the end, Andrew Cuomo’s long record was a gift to Zohran Mamdani. “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity—and what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience,” Mamdani told Cuomo in a debate.
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The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TFjyu7?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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The New York Times
4 months ago
The Trump administration released a final rule on Thursday that restricted who could participate in a student loan forgiveness program for public servants. Critics say the new rule gives the government broad tools to politicize the program and target groups that do not align with its values.
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Trump Rule Could Ban Some Public Servants From Student Loan Forgiveness
A new rule could disqualify certain employers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that are deemed to be engaged in “illegal activities.”
https://nyti.ms/3Xa7Tpr
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The Atlantic
4 months ago
“And think— / just think / how light the head can be, / releasing velvet-covered extensions of the past.” Read a new poem by Carolina Hotchandani:
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Casting
A poem
https://bit.ly/3LaYATA
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The Atlantic
4 months ago
“I never crossed a border—only watched the land shift like a tired animal, folding / itself around my feet until I belonged to a country I didn’t name.” Read a new poem by Darrel Alejandro Holnes:
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Mouth of the River, Tongue of No Country
A poem
https://bit.ly/4hspt1y
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The Atlantic
4 months ago
I’ve been evicted from the Pentagon, a building I’ve covered for 18 years, Nancy A. Youssef writes. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
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The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps
I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
https://bit.ly/42IsFzT
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The New Yorker
4 months ago
Zohran Mamdani is a prototype for a new generation of American politicians, an Obama administration official who has been advising him said: “He’s the first to arrive on the shore, but, just over the horizon, you can see more ships coming in.”
http://nyer.cm/4yV6gng
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Julie Beck
4 months ago
wrote about a vibe shift that's been bugging me
www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
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When Real Relationships Start to Look Parasocial
Changes in social media and private messaging are making communication feel like content to consume.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/10/social-media-relationships-parasocial/684551/?gift=RRUwO0MqDZ04E409VHbUwagoaWZMFW1e-a7eQQbqECc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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The Atlantic
4 months ago
In the 1967 poem "Early December in Croton-on-Hudson," Louise Glück recalls a blown tire on a trip to deliver Christmas presents. Read it here:
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Poem: Early December in Croton-on-Hudson
A poem by Louise Glück, published in The Atlantic in 1967
https://bit.ly/4n8qtcr
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Caity Weaver
5 months ago
I became a Revolutionary War reenactor for work! I went to Massachusetts and I couldn’t wear makeup!!! 😭 War is HELL
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I Fought the Battle of Bunker Hill
What it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/revolutionary-war-historical-reenactment/684317/?gift=DSG3Tuza1E1plW5tLvZKU1OHO9h7krzrT1GzeIHQ8uo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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The Atlantic
5 months ago
250 years after the Revolution, the American project remains unfinished and troubled, but “a project worth pursuing,”
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
argues in The Atlantic’s new issue.
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The American Experiment
At 250, the Revolution’s goals remain noble and indispensable.
https://bit.ly/4nDaxjd
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The Atlantic
5 months ago
What does it take to be a Revolutionary War reenactor? Caity Weaver traveled across New England and to New York’s Fort Ticonderoga, put on period clothing, and shot a musket to find out:
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Into the Breeches
What it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor
https://bit.ly/47gh2CI
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Matteo Wong
5 months ago
I toured NYC’s much reviled Friend AI ads with the startup’s CEO. Felt a lot more like an art installation than a business:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters
Avi Schiffmann says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/friend-ai-companion-ads/684451/
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Sophie Gilbert
5 months ago
Gasped at the ending to this. (It's all cool edgy fun and games until someone gets chatbot-induced psychosis.)
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters
Avi Schiffmann says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/friend-ai-companion-ads/684451/
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A glittering, heartbreaking poem by Courtney Kampa: "Put your ribs into the wind when you say it. Expose a pearl-bellied throat to the sky. So many words for wrapping your mind around the self, instead of your arms around the ankles of another."
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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Take Me With You
A poem
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/09/poem-courtney-kampa-take-me-with-you/684281/?gift=pV0onWCnkPHOIR6AQkPb5eMBpK__CvWG6TebWngWfUE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
5 months ago
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Tom Nichols
5 months ago
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2025/09/atlantic-gives-free-digital-access-high-schools/684221/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweMbCl6OUb_h7fYJdXxVTgZk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Matteo Wong
5 months ago
"X and Grok are politically and culturally influential tools; Musk seems intent on turning them into not just instruments of the far right but also something like Maxim on steroids."
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The Strange and Erotic World of Elon Musk’s Chatbot
Grok’s anti-“woke” programming is getting pushed further and further.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/09/grok-system-prompt-girls/684225/
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Evan McMurry
5 months ago
This article, its structure, and especially its hall-of-fame kicker should all be taught in writing classes:
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The Greatest Fight of All Time
Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali met Joe Frazier in Manila.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/ali-frazier-thrilla-in-manila-history/683972/
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It's a particularly good day to read a poem by Arthur Sze, our newest Poet Laureate—
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Under a Supermoon
A poem by Arthur Sze
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/arthur-sze-under-a-supermoon/682906/?gift=pV0onWCnkPHOIR6AQkPb5SOszCXG1XT-JWRLCH5DNEw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
5 months ago
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The Atlantic
5 months ago
“And when those white-sailed ships / piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell, / the word rode with us, our tongues / anointed with the power of God.” Read “In the Beginning, There Was the Word,” a poem by Ashley M. Jones:
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In the Beginning, There Was the Word
A poem
https://bit.ly/3VhUXgr
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Adrienne LaFrance
6 months ago
Today is a good day to read
@mckaycoppins.bsky.social
on the mind games, sibling rivalry, and war for power that culminated in Lachlan Murdoch winning his family’s succession fight:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/rupert-murdoch-family-succession-james-murdoch/681675/
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The Atlantic
6 months ago
"We have everything we need, but we want more, and faster. The crushed garter snake is scrawled on the tarmac in an ampersand." Read “Summertime,” a poem in our October 2025 issue by Rosanna Warren.
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Summertime
A poem by Rosanna Warren
https://bit.ly/4goGWHx
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