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Gilad Edelman

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Senior editor, The Atlantic

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“I fucking hate him; I think he’s a scumbag, and you can quote me on that,” one progressive said about Richard Hanania. And yet, “I think, bizarrely enough, that he and I probably share the same broad overall analysis of the American right.” Read my piece here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Anti-Populist
The writer and former white supremacist Richard Hanania was once the toast of MAGA-curious tech barons and reactionary intellectuals. Now he thinks Trumpism has broken their brains.
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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This is a story about life extension for dogs, in which my own pup makes several appearances www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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Your Next Dog May Live Longer
A new pill could soon extend dogs’ lives. How will that change our relationship with our pets?
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI in a long time: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance
The future of creative labor will turn on whether AI-generated work can be copyrighted.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What if an AI moratorium is actually pro-abundance? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now
Electronics are getting more expensive and worse. Blame the AI boom.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I think we should all agree to pronounce GLP-1s as "gulpies," in the interest of efficiency and fun
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I apologize to anyone who snores and whose spouse comes across this article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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You Don’t Have to Snore
If you snore, there’s a good chance a cure is out there for you. Good luck finding it.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"We might need to reframe 'American exceptionalism.' Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for white-collar crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind."
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
When did everyone (including Brad Pitt in F1: The Movie) start saying "That tracks" instead of "That makes sense" or "That checks out"? Where does it come from?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/01/2026
A federal judge ruled last year that Google had cheated publications out of ad revenue. Now those publications want their money back, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes.
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Will Google Ever Have to Pay for Its Sins?
A federal judge ruled last year that the tech giant had cheated publications out of ad revenue. Now those publications want their money back.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I don't think people realize how much the use of academic disability accommodations has exploded over the past decade—especially at the most elite schools. More than 20 percent of Harvard and Stanford students apparently receive some form of accommodation: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
With all due respect to Brussels sprouts — give it a rest. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Numbers are simply too big now: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Humans Can’t Wrap Their Minds Around This Economy
And that’s a problem for American society.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Email in 2010: Long heartfelt letter from your study abroad pen pal Email in 2025: "Reminder to please give feedback on your experience using our platform to pay your dentistry bill"
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Companies like OpenAI say their chatbots are optimized to be useful, not to keep you hooked. Totally coincidentally, they pose endless follow-up prompts to keep the conversation going. By @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
How chatbots keep you talking
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I would really like to know what editorial judgments led to the choice of wording here
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Great reporting here www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
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How One Company Maintained a Monopoly on U.S. Fire Retardant
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Ground meat implies the existence of sky meat
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Seems like a bit of a constitutional issue to suppose that the sitting president can sue people and news organizations in his individual capacity in federal district court.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It's interesting how some people act as if breaking up a company (say, Google) is akin to a death sentence, but out in the real world, corporate juggernauts choose to break themselves up all the time
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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🧵 Earlier this year, I traveled to East Asia for a story about whether South Korea and Japan will pursue nuclear weapons as China continues its nuclear build-up and the U.S. becomes a (much) less reliable ally. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double
As American power recedes, South Korea, Japan, and a host of other countries may pursue the bomb.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The greatest freestyle rapper of all time is a YouTuber named Harry Mack, who had the misfortune of coming up at a time when people don't really care about freestyling anymore. But he has essentially perfected the form.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
ruh roh www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse
Humanity is set to start shrinking several decades ahead of schedule.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I enjoyed MATERIALISTS aside from the acting, writing, and directing.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"Listen: Blake Masters is a creepy weirdo," Chris Murphy told me, "but a lot of the stuff he was getting into in 2022—about the emptiness of American life when all that matters is how much you buy and how good a consumer you are—really, it spoke to me.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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What Chris Murphy Learned From the New Right
The standard-issue Northeast progressive wants to take the Democratic Party down a populist path.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Weird to think, as I approach middle age, that I have spent just over 50 percent of my adult life living in the Trump era www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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A Decade of Golden-Escalator Politics
It was here that Donald Trump descended into American politics.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/06/2025
"My article, titled 'Year of the Pigskin,' was natural Hollywood bait," Christopher Beam writes. "Now a Chinese studio appeared to have simply lifted the idea":
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How I Accidentally Inspired a Major Chinese Motion Picture
A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports. Now it’s a movie with a very different message.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This is quite the yarn by @chrisbeam.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Zany Sports Movie That Explains U.S.-China Relations
A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through football. Now it’s a major Chinese motion picture—with a very different message.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It seems bad that higher interest rates, a tool meant to reduce inflation, mechanically cause inflation to increase in certain very important categories www.axios.com/2025/06/02/a...
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Why rents are rising again
U.S. renters face higher costs as construction stalls, Redfin says.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
One of many things I learned from this article: one of Trump's phone backgrounds is an image of HIS OWN FACE www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
What would we do without philosophers?
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Accusing our opponents of "ignoring tradeoffs" is really hot right now — I wonder when we'll go back to just saying they're wrong?
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"A critical mass of the nation’s politicians, news outlets, and major brands regularly post content for free to the exclusive streaming platform for the Ye song 'Heil Hitler.'"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/
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What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It's good to read the text of an executive order before publishing an article about it in a leading newspaper
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"The jobs that we lost to China 20 years ago: We’re not getting those back," Autor says. "China doesn’t even want those jobs anymore. They are losing them to Vietnam, and they aren’t upset about it."
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Trump's big "pause" can't undo the damage from swinging back and forth on tariff policy, and also, the average tariff level is actually higher now www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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Saahil Desai @saahildesai.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I got flipped off 17 times in the making of this story www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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My Day Inside America’s Most Hated Car
The Cybertruck is a 7,000-pound Rorschach test.
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Chris Beam @chrisbeam.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Ayn Rand gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver. My deep dive on the battle for Ayn Rand’s estate: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Ugly Fight Over Ayn Rand’s Estate
The author gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This story is incredible: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Ugly Fight Over Ayn Rand’s Estate
The author gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Amazing: the executive order attempting to close the Department of Education literally claims that the problem is that the agency is *too small*
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"I suspect that, with the right ascendant politically and culturally, bad-boy podcasters have run short of DEI sacred cows to skewer. Now, in an effort to keep churning out provocative content, they’re pivoting toward antisemitism."
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
According to Ruth Marcus, her column criticizing Bezos's edict was spiked because it was speculative to suggest that Bezos's edict would lead to columns being spiked www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
As @jonathanbchait.bsky.social points out, talking about Trump–Russia may have come to be seen as cringe, but today's events are exactly the kind of thing that people were warning about all along: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Zelensky Walked Into a Trap
Donald Trump and J. D. Vance appear to have entered today’s Oval Office meeting with the goal of generating a pretext for a diplomatic break with Ukraine.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Tremendous reporting here by my colleague @katherinejwu.com
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Historically, the brightest, most ambitious students from other countries have come to American universities to study and do research. It's a huge part of the American success story. It would be a neat trick if Trump manages to reverse the trend and turn the inflow into a brain drain.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As @joshuabenton.com observes, a newspaper owner is entitled to run the opinion section the way he wants. What's ridiculous about the Post situation is the hypocrisy of saying the paper must avoid all appearance of bias, only to now triple down on a specific bias: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Jeff Bezos’s Laughable Assertion of Power
His decision will only make The Washington Post a weaker institution.
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Fascinating: "Even as the unemployment rate has hovered around 4 percent for more than three years, the pace of hiring has slowed to levels last seen shortly after the Great Recession, when the unemployment rate was nearly twice as high." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Job Market Is Frozen
Unemployment is low, but workers aren’t quitting and businesses aren’t hiring. What’s going on?
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
my story on intergenerational home-sharing is now outside the paywall It’s an underrated idea that bridges generations, boosts needed housing supply, and helps more people afford to age in place www.vox.com/housing/3960...
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Like every take I've ever written*, this one could be wrong. But from the deranged replies to this—calling me a fascist bootlicker, saying I should die, etc.—you'd think the article argued for genocide. Really depressing stuff. *other than "cheese is good for you"
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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Hoo boy, the Bluesky community did NOT like this one www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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‘The Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick
The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent principles.
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