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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18m

Only 24 years of Eliza Schuyler’s life were spent with Alexander Hamilton, Jane Kamensky writes. What would it mean to write her into the history of America’s founding?

The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1h

What would the Founding Fathers say about America now? They might be surprised that the republic exists at all, Fintan O’Toole writes.

What the Founders Would Say Now

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h

María Corina Machado deserves the Nobel Peace Prize she won, Anne Applebaum argues. Here’s what her conversations with Machado last year revealed:

Why María Corina Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3h

College rankings are an American ritual—but they were once a shocking experiment, Jake Lundberg writes in Time-Travel Thursdays:

College Rankings Were Once a Shocking Experiment

Now they’ve become an American ritual.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4h

Boycotting Israeli films is an ill-conceived means of achieving political change, Gershom Gorenberg argues. It targets “a vital source of artistic dissent rather than policy makers”:

The Reason Not to Boycott Israeli Films

Cinema is a vital source of artistic dissent in a country at war.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 7h

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":

Trump’s Purge of Terrorism Prosecutors

The politicization of the Justice Department is making Americans less safe.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 9h

Taylor Swift’s new chart topper is an achievement of e-commerce, not music, argues @skornhaber.bsky.social:

Buy This Album. Now Buy It in Green.

Here’s how Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl just shattered sales records.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h

Car shoppers have long waited for Tesla to release cheaper EVs. The company finally did so this week, and even Elon Musk's biggest fans are disappointed, writes Patrick George.

It’s All Catching Up to Tesla

Elon Musk’s embrace of Donald Trump continues to haunt his car company.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11h

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s the moral foundation of America, Elaine Pagels writes—and it’s worth preserving.

The Moral Foundation of America

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h

As the nation fractured, Abraham Lincoln drew on the American Revolution as a project that could redeem the past and heal the present. It’s a lesson for us today, Jake Lundberg writes:

Lincoln’s Revolution

How he used America’s past to rescue its future

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13h

Concord is well known as the home of Walden Pond, made famous by the writer Henry David Throreau, but the small town’s wider geography was crucial to the origins of the American Revolution, Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson argue: https://theatln.tc/7IM93J1s

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14h

Trump’s TikTok deal is short on details. “But what has been released should alarm anyone concerned with this administration’s drive to consolidate wealth and media power in the hands of a loyal few,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.

Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok

The details are murky, but it looks like the president is about to further enrich and empower his friends.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16h

The “Tron” franchise has never engaged deeply with the techno-futuristic world behind its dazzling visuals. But “Tron: Ares,” the latest installment, stumbles into some newfound relevance, writes David Sims:

The Most Baffling Disney Franchise Returns at the Right Time

The latest “Tron” movie stumbles into newfound relevance amid its sci-fi nonsense.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

Regret is uncomfortable. But by giving in to those feelings, just for a little while, we might learn something new about ourselves in the present, @isabelfattal.bsky.social writes in The Wonder Reader:

How to Use Regret Instead of Wallowing in It

Looking backwards doesn’t have to feel like standing still.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

250 years after the Revolution, the American project remains unfinished and troubled, but “a project worth pursuing,” Jeffrey Goldberg argues in The Atlantic’s new issue: https://theatln.tc/VWUMm7iQ

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18h

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19h

Patrick Henry was the American Revolution’s consummate persuader. Drew Gilpin Faust on how the Virginian galvanized support for the American cause—and transformed both political discourse and American politics in the process: https://theatln.tc/njc5SAkV

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19h

Israel and Hamas have agreed to what could be a historic peace deal. @nancycordes, @IgnatiusPost, @jonkarl, and @MarkMazzettiNYT join guest moderator @vmsalama on @washingtonweek to discuss the likelihood that their agreement holds, and more:

The Turning Point for Israel and Hamas

Panelists joined to discuss the likelihood that the historic agreement to end the war in Gaza holds, and more.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20h

Car shoppers have long waited for Tesla to release cheaper EVs. The company finally did so this week, and even Elon Musk's biggest fans are disappointed, writes Patrick George.

It’s All Catching Up to Tesla

Elon Musk’s embrace of Donald Trump continues to haunt his car company.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20h

Not long ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a hard-line MAGA acolyte. Lately she’s been breaking with her party, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily. https://theatln.tc/EbeVZhtD

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20h

“What does it mean to be Palestinian when I’m spared the things that define life for so many other Palestinians—displacement, dispossession, siege?” Reem Kassis on grief:

The Cruel Calculus of Palestinian Grief

In times of mass atrocity, processing personal sorrow becomes more complicated.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h

The MAGA-fication of sports is not just about influencing voters, but also about pushing our collective boundaries, Sally Jenkins argues:

The MAGA-fication of Sports Continues

Donald Trump’s partnership with the UFC takes his desire to identify with winners to snarling new heights.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h

László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize in Literature winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels perfectly timely. Walt Hunter on the political power of his timeless art: https://theatln.tc/MZAgBsjw

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22h

Russia’s new “super app” offers Vladimir Putin a new tool to monitor Russians—and even Ukrainians in Russian-occupied territories—in deeper ways, Justin Sherman argues.

Russia’s Answer to WeChat

The Kremlin is pushing a new “super app” for Russian citizens. What could possibly go wrong?

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22h

Trump’s TikTok deal is short on details. “But what has been released should alarm anyone concerned with this administration’s drive to consolidate wealth and media power in the hands of a loyal few,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.

Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok

The details are murky, but it looks like the president is about to further enrich and empower his friends.

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