The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesNowThe Price of FreedomThe Atlantic - V. Patrick PochWhat my father taught me about resisting authoritarianism Late in the summer of 1984, I met my dying father for what I thought would be our last lunch together. We’d chosen one of his favorite restaurants in downtown Brno, the capital of Moravia in what was then Communist Czechoslovakia. The ceiling …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories1 hour agoIs Radicalism the Answer?The Atlantic - David BrooksThe legal scholar Samuel Moyn argues that moderates have given up on the emancipatory promise of liberalism. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube As we enter the midterm elections, Americans seem ready to move on from the Trump era, but there remains great disagreement about what should come …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories2 hours agoI Was Lucky to Be Alive. But I Missed Being Pretty.The Atlantic - Hannah ViedermanA pump-up girl faces her own mortality. When I was 22, I moved to New York City to be a bar-mitzvah motivator. I’d dreamed about this job ever since I’d discovered that it was a job—drunk on gummy candy at my cousin’s bar mitzvah in New Jersey, crushing on a man in leather pants pumping his fist to …
The Atlanticflipped into Ideas3 hours agoThe U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never BeforeThe Atlantic - Anne ApplebaumThe Trump administration tries to micromanage the domestic politics of American allies. At a dinner in Athens in March, Kimberly Guilfoyle, then the U.S. ambassador to Greece, made a statement that elegantly combined arrogance with menace. According to The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, …
The Atlanticflipped into Politics3 hours agoThe Questions Adam Hamawy Won’t AnswerThe Atlantic - Michael PowellHe’s likely to end up in Congress. He still hasn’t fully accounted for why he once kept company with the man known as the Blind Sheikh. The photograph, from April 1993, shows a burly sheikh sitting on a couch wearing a gray kaftan, a white-and-crimson turban, and black sunglasses. His beard is thick …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories21 hours agoA Pro-Russia Strongman at Mar-a-LagoThe Atlantic - Isaac Stanley-BeckerMilorad Dodik, the separatist Bosnian Serb leader, has won MAGA’s favor after a lobbying bonanza. In the days after Tuesday’s midterm elections, luminaries of the MAGA movement will gather at Mar-a-Lago to turn their attention to 2028. Speakers will include a Cabinet secretary, the head of the …
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