the new snail mail songs are that rare and precious genre of “makes me believe spring will actually come” they are vitamin d, they are an ssri, they are fixing my brain chemistry

I really enjoyed Stephen Fishbach’s novel Escape!—as a Survivor fan, and as someone who thinks way too much about how the desire for narrative shapes our lives www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

a tribute to everyone who hasn’t forgotten how to love their neighbors 💙 www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

two journalists arrested for practicing journalism—Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort

essential essential essential life-giving, hopeful piece of writing

legalize teens!!! www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

the funny thing about everyone memorializing 2016 on social media is that at the time, people famously hated that year, to the point that everyone was constantly posting "Fuck you 2016" on social media and John Oliver burned the numerals in effigy on TV www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

We are not letting this go If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists. by @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social

thank GOD @faith-hill.bsky.social wrote about heated rivalry www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis—now her family has to cope not only with their loss “but with a campaign designed to justify her killing,” Adam Serwer argues:

I just verbally said "all the best, Julie" while leaving a voicemail for my pharmacy.... send help

when did people become so weird about friends venting to each other? www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

She’s taken physical form for edits

Caught Stealing is A Simple Favor for men

seeing a few fashion diapers on this list, I'm just saying... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s... www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

waxahatchee the mountain goats bleachers death cab for cutie taylor swift

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

How do you cheat at a conversation? That is the question behind a new AI tool called Cluely, which promises to augment all kinds of communication. But when @julieebeck tried it out, she found that it just makes interactions worse:

sometimes I think about the day Apple announced the iPad, and everyone in my college dorm laughed and laughed, and said things like "what's next, iTampon?", certain this waystation between phone and computer with a silly name would never be a meaningful cultural force anyway now we have iPad kids

tough to live to see such times, but at least we still have @sophiegilbert.bsky.social to say the plain simple truth so I feel slightly less insane www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

I tried out AI that augments conversation, whose founders want you to "cheat on everything." (If this takes off, one expert told me, "everyone who we meet could be a kind of deepfake") I can confidently say: when it comes to connection, effort is all there is. www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

ginkgo on ginkgo

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

there is one question that will tell you whether you are meant to be a journalist and it is: how much do you like reading PDFs?

I say I don’t believe in manifestation, but then I act as though the perfect combination of notebooks and pens, and the proper number and manner of lists written therein will in fact deliver me the life I desire

this piece bangs on like richter-scale levels www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

regrettably civ 7 sucks but don't worry I've spent my fallow period playing hades 2 instead :)

It takes a village to make moms feel bad for not having enough friends: www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.

reading that absolutely wild feminization essay because I'm incapable of protecting my own peace, and this is not the most important thing, but I'm losing it at the notion that women simply do not have the capacity to be relentless, open, and authoritative haters

I had to make a foray into fashion writing because I could not stop thinking about the fashion diapers all the celebs are wearing!!! www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

this season of love is blind was really overtly tradwife-coded and I had a few thoughts about that! not least of which is that the entire show's value system makes no sense. gift link: www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

I missed this incredible essay by Reem Kassis when it went up--if you did too, I highly recommend giving it a read: www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

merry christmas, bro, I know how you love your theragun and, well…just open it

every day i log on to a new psyop designed to give me a rage stroke

wrote about a vibe shift that's been bugging me www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

Nicole put so much work, thought, care, generosity and deep empathy into this piece and it shows! a must-read

as usual @adamserwer.bsky.social says it best: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

you do owe people things

don't read this if you play games with me I'M SERIOUS www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

I did it…..I turned in a draft of this dang book to my editor. now my reward: to purchase sid meier’s civilization 7 and play it til my eyes bleed

the song of the summer is the entirety of the goo goo dolls’ 1998 album dizzy up the girl, you either get it or you don’t

tiktok keeps showing me these journal girls with washi tapes & popular girl handwriting & adorable illustrated spreads am I jealous, yes, but I also feel compelled to say that a true journal freak opens that notebook and it’s wall to wall black ink text, just pure uncut unhinged internal dialogue

I’ve ended up on the side of tiktok where people have special surgical tweezers to peel stickers of smiling bears from their film and put them in their planners

and they said my encyclopedic knowledge of taylor swift lyrics would never be professionally lucrative www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

big plans for my vacation? you bet—I’m going to purchase books at the local bookstore of a DIFFERENT city, instead of my own

I watched way too many "5 to 9 after 9 to 5" videos and became convinced that whether you "make the most" of your free time by being super productive or just try to relax and recover from your job, the ghost of work haunts most of our leisure www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.