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Jeffrey Goldberg

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Editor in chief, The Atlantic. Moderator, Washington Week with The Atlantic, on PBS.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Fun piece from @rossandersen.bsky.social about the "Hubble tension"--the problem that different methods for measuring the expansion of the universe give apparently incompatible results, which is leading some researchers to believe that something is drastically wrong with standard cosmological ideas.
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The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
Cosmologists are fighting over everything.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 22/05/2025
Grateful for this essay by my friend @ibogost.bsky.social
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First My Mother Died. Then My Home Got Hit by a Tornado.
My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/05/2025
Can Steve Witkoff, Trump's friend and golfing partner, make world peace? @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/8b2ZQDNs
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/05/2025
“It is these constitutional obstacles to a tyrannical president that have made America the greatest nation on Earth for almost 250 years, not the fallen America that Trump delusionally thinks he’s going to make great again tomorrow,” J. Michael Luttig writes:
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The End of Rule of Law in America
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"'Ian, are you conscious or are you a vegetable?' Geoff teased during one of my visits. 'I think you’re a vegetable. I think you look like a kumquat.'" From fascinating, tragic, harrowing, heartwarming story of brain injury & consciousness. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/05/2025
“Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether,” writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social. “Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad”:
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The New MAGA World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"The president’s utter contempt for the Constitution and laws of the United States has been on spectacular display since Inauguration Day." Essential piece by Reagan administration alum and longtime George H.W. Bush-appointed federal judge J. Michael Luttig. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The End of Rule of Law in America
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 23/04/2025
@adriennelaf.bsky.social: “Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America.”
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A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy publication day to @dgraham.bsky.social and may this image live forever
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Trump has opened up a trapdoor beneath the American legal system. This trapdoor is wide enough to swallow the entire Constitution....Trump can, if he wishes, imprison any dissident, judge, journalist, member of Congress, or candidate for office." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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A Loophole That Would Swallow the Constitution
If Donald Trump can disappear people to El Salvador without due process, he can do anything.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/04/2025
The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Key reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social: Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals. So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Harvard is changing course, perhaps because it grasped the true takeaway from Columbia’s cautionary tale: Appeasement doesn’t work, because the Trump administration isn’t really trying to reform elite higher education. It’s trying to break it." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake
If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Everybody should read this essay by @nellminow.bsky.social, who tells the story of the time her father refused a direct order from the president: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How to Say No to the President
My father taught me that American values are nothing without those who have the courage to uphold them.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/04/2025
The cartoonist R. Crumb was called a sicko, a misogynist, a racist, @galbeckerman.bsky.social writes. But by dredging his subconscious, he found something the culture was craving.
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The Dark Weirdness of R. Crumb
The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 15/04/2025
“By continuing to punish Columbia even after the school gave in to its demands, the administration also appears to have overplayed its hand. If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why should other universities give in?”
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What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake
If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Wrote about my love for wonky janky human faces www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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Reclaim Imperfect Faces
Technology isn’t just changing the way we look—it’s changing our sense of how we should look.
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"When I look at Trump acolytes, I see a swarm of Neville Chamberlains who think they’re Winston Churchill." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 06/04/2025
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has employed political appointees to make cookies and serve meals, @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @ashleyrparker.bsky.social report. "On at least one occasion, a political appointee was told to recook the cookies because the batch was subpar." theatln.tc/Xo3eE3Jm
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨More news, this time from Isaac Stanley-Becker. Excellent and important reporting about fear and capitulation as defining qualities of the new Trump era: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The United States of Fear
For anyone who’s in the president’s crosshairs—or who could be—it’s the dominant emotion of Trump’s second term.
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Gal Beckerman @galbeckerman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I spoke with Chimamanda about America, which is starting to seem no different to her than Nigeria.
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Chimamanda Adichie Is a Hopeless Romantic
Discussing "Dream Count," her first novel in 12 years, the Nigerian author shares her thoughts on masculinity, political chaos, and the future of fiction.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/03/2025
"Let’s start with security guarantees. Putin has never agreed to them for Ukraine—in any form" Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich
Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 06/03/2025
Tim Alberta spent time with Elissa Slotkin in the hours before her speech on Tuesday. A fascinating report on one Democrat trying to make sense of it all:
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The Advice Elissa Slotkin Didn’t Take
The Michigan senator wants to set a new tone for the Democratic resistance.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 02/03/2025
“For some of the workers, it was their second time being fired in a month.” @matteowong.bsky.social on the chaos inside 18F:
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DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team
“It’s chaotic, and it feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.”
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 25/02/2025
“The federal government’s main personnel agency, which had sent Saturday’s government-wide email, had quietly instructed agencies midday Monday that a response was voluntary. Those instructions effectively rescinded Musk’s threats.”
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Elon Musk’s Empty Ultimatum
The billionaire Trump enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/02/2025
This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A list of more officers who might be fired is circulating among a small group of lawmakers on armed services committees in the House and Senate.The list isn’t final. Still subject to the whims of POTUS… @shaneharris.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Trump’s Military Purge Has Washington Asking ‘Who’s Next?’
The dismissal of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came as part of a broader shakeup throughout the military’s senior ranks.
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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Be clear about what you are seeing. The firing of these senior officers has nothing to do with competence. This is creating an oath of loyal by the Armed Forces to the Leader. We face an uncertain future.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you missed this when The Atlantic first published it, now is a good time to read it. Gift link here so it’s free for anyone to read: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A must-read about how to deal with online trolls.
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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“The contractor said that she had placed her government laptop in her closet at home, underneath a pile of clothes, in case DOGE was using it to listen to her private conversations.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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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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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The @latimes reviews "Stuck," calling it "insightful," and saying it "skillfully blends zoning history with ... reportage." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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'Stuck' in place: Author traces America's mobility crisis to a Modesto law enacted in 1885
In his insightful book about America's housing crisis, Yoni Appelbaum argues that more than a century of restrictive legislation has left so many stuck, unable to pursue opportunity.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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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 federal agencies.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 19/02/2025
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Jeffrey Goldberg @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Jeffrey Goldberg @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Rupert sat slouched and silent throughout the deposition.... Every so often, though, he would pick up his phone and type. Finally, James realized why. 'He was texting the lawyer questions to ask,” James told me. “How fucking twisted is that?' 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
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
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Jeffrey Goldberg @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"Attempts to defund science on the whole could affect work across fields, throttling drug discovery, clinical trials, climate adaptation, and more." Read the whole thing, from @katherinejwu.com: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/02/2025
Destroying the civil service is just the beginning, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to replace America’s political system. theatln.tc/gGJvwKDJ
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"When I finally found people to have sex with me—I had to attend Oberlin to complete the task—my expression upon disrobing resembled that of a dog looking up at his mistress after a bowel movement of hazmat proportions." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Milled Wool Suit
A perfect suit, made by an expert tailor out of superlative fabric, would do nothing less than transform me.
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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
During a deposition last year, Rupert Murdoch sat next to his lawyer who argued—explicitly—that Fox News is successful because it gives viewers what they want, and then cited its post-2020 election denial coverage as an example. The candor is pretty wild: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I've spent the past year talking to James Murdoch about his father's "twisted" behavior, the mind games at the family-counseling retreat, how Fox News really works, and the war over his family's media empire. My cover story for The Atlantic's April edition: 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
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
James Murdoch is breaking his silence in a very big way. This @mckaycoppins.bsky.social piece is a stop-what-you're-doing-and-read story for media insiders, Fox and News Corp employees, and "Succession" fans: 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
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Trump administration has slammed the door shut on refugees from all over the world, but there is one particular group he is welcoming. I bet you can guess why. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Welcome
Trump wants to “promote the resettlement” of white South Africans.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/02/2025
DOGE could blow American spies’ cover, @shaneharris.bsky.social writes. Counterintelligence is in crisis:
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DOGE Raises Red Flags for National Security
Elon Musk’s takeover of federal agencies is a counterintelligence crisis.
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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
America doesn't have an affordable housing crisis—we've got a mobility crisis. The first excerpt of my book "Stuck" is out this morning, as @theatlantic.com's March cover story. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/02/2025
“Engineers in Gaza have no time for bluster and fantasy about the place they know as home,” Claudine Ebeid writes. “They must deal every day with the damage already done, knowing that it cannot easily be undone.”
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Gazans Don’t Need a Riviera. They Need Water.
The desperate struggle by Palestinian engineers to repair a water system destroyed by war
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 07/02/2025
“‘Upgrading’ a system of which you know nothing about is a good way to break it, and breaking air travel is a worst-case scenario,” one FAA employee told @theatlantic.com. “It could easily get to a place where you can’t guarantee the safety of flights taking off and landing.”
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
You have to read this. Just trust me. @Shteyngart is so so hilarious. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Behold My Suit!
A lifetime of fashion misery comes to an end.
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My first piece for @theatlantic.com shares some thoughts on what it will take to rebuild Gaza. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Challenges the U.S. Would Face in Gaza
The president offered no outline for overcoming a daunting set of obstacles.
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