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Get a head start on today’s Rabbithole game with this question inspired by Jacqueline Munis’s article on a mess of a storm season. theatln.tc/lULLk2Jj

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In April 2024, Joe Biden and the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack, Brett McGurk writes. In an excerpt from his new book, McGurk details the tense scene inside the White House: theatln.tc/B2snuDWn

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Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports. Watch Salama’s full discussion with host Adam Harris on Radio Atlantic about her reporting: youtu.be/_IYjrwG4r1I?...

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“Don’t you dare go inside the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts!” @petridishes.bsky.social writes. “If people can understand one another just by scratching a bow across taut strings—perhaps this is a form of witchcraft.” theatln.tc/uunyKiyj 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

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A growing number of conservative books are arguing about the harms of empathy in political decision making, offering “a theoretical framework for selfishness,” Elizabeth Bruenig argues. theatln.tc/oZPy2D7y 🎨: Dan Zhou for The Atlantic

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Start today’s Rabbithole game with this question inspired by Shan Wang’s exploration in The Atlantic's archives of the challenges female sports fans have long faced. theatln.tc/VFeiO4My

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed isn’t afraid of starting an argument—but the Michigan Democrat doesn’t always pick his fights carefully, @helenlewis.bsky.social writes. She spoke with the candidate ahead of the midterm elections: theatln.tc/uDvy8VPI

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Donald Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud—but a group of outsiders is making that difficult, @yvonnewingett.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social report. theatln.tc/7fahTHBU

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/09/2026

America's allies no longer think the country's isolationism and protectionism will end with Trump, Vivian Salama reports. theatln.tc/XHfekVfK

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/09/2026

A novel legal strategy represents a new front for the climate-change movement—if it holds up in court, @rossandersen.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/WtjyezsD

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Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports: theatln.tc/2t3svWou

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Donald Trump Jr. thanked a Russian businessman for “an extraordinarily generous” wedding gift—but current and former intelligence officials see an effort by the Kremlin to influence people in the president’s orbit, @shaneharris.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/jOBKRCFF

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“A book that once rightfully inspired devotion can simply fall out of favor, or even out of print,” Dustin Illingworth writes. He recommends six titles that are no longer fashionable—but worth reading: theatln.tc/2yztPMOO

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Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026

Rewatching "Normal People," listening to Emmylou Harris, laughing at "Adults," and more culture and entertainment recommendations from Emma Williams in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/VfYfnEJI

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Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports: theatln.tc/2t3svWou

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026

Get a head start on today’s Rabbithole with this question from @petridishes.bsky.social’s story about her “Taste of the Arctic” dinner at the Danish ambassador’s residence. theatln.tc/N5uuYh7g

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026

America's allies no longer think the country's isolationism and protectionism will end with Trump, Vivian Salama reports. theatln.tc/XHfekVfK

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Children’s shows often use foreign accents and nonstandard dialects to voice the “bad guys,” Isabel Fattal wrote in 2018. theatln.tc/V0m9lnh1

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As Americans seem to be more hostile to one another over their politics, it is beneficial to “find some kind of connective tissue” for a more productive conversation, Jessica Tarlov of Fox News’s The Five explains on The David Frum Show. Watch the entire episode: youtu.be/qVymo7Qrwns?...

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Play today’s Rabbithole with this question inspired by James Parker’s list of 50 songs that explain America to him. theatln.tc/V65XsP7R

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Sarah Longwell has conducted more than 400 focus groups with thousands of Americans across the political spectrum. Democratic voters have a clear message for their party, she writes: theatln.tc/u7lcGLQl

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A novel legal strategy represents a new front for the climate-change movement—if it holds up in court, @rossandersen.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/WtjyezsD

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/09/2026

Donald Trump is invoking national security to justify his attempts to remake Washington, D.C., into a city of buildings and monuments bearing his name—including an arch bristling with weaponry, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.

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A novel legal strategy represents a new front for the climate-change movement—if it holds up in court, @rossandersen.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/WtjyezsD

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/09/2026

Play The Atlantic’s daily trivia game, Rabbithole, which begins with this question inspired by Scott W. Stern’s review of a new book about nuclear policy. theatln.tc/lGjmfS26

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Get a head start on today’s Rabbithole game with this question. The right answer will transform into the next question, and take you down a tunnel of trivia. theatln.tc/1mZIgNrL

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Exclusive: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was hired last year and was not wearing his body camera, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/S5VS6fih

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President Trump seems to believe that banning certain news outlets is the answer to his political problems—but his unpopularity with voters is a predicament of his own creation, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/XDvlYmYw

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Asked who would win in a hypothetical war between Canada and the U.S., Malcolm Gladwell tells @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social that Canada would prevail “because all of the American troops invade Canada, and then realize that they want to stay.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfK... #TAF26

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The Atacama Desert in Chile was in full bloom following a spell of unusually wet weather. See photos from the AFP photojournalist Javier Torres: theatln.tc/BeyXCoaU 📸: Javier Torres / AFP / Getty

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“My party is infiltrated by these people”: Karl Rove at #TAF26 on Republicans who traffic in conspiracies and bigotry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HB...

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Speaking about modern tech leaders, Kara Swisher says, “There’s no guardrails on these people, ever.” “There’s never been a moment where the people do not get a say, and these people get to make decisions for the rest of us that are really problematic,” she tells @adriennelaf.bsky.social at #TAF26.

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Donald Trump’s Sunday-morning Truth Social post “suggests a president who is now lost in a fantasy city in his mind—a capital where the buildings are festooned with his name, drenched in glitz, and bristling with weapons,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/NUvNaqgV

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Start today’s Rabbithole game with this question from James Parker’s article on George Lucas’s next great epic: an art museum. theatln.tc/yB4qPdpr

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