Andrew Aoyama
@andrewaoyama.bsky.social
Deputy Managing Editor at The Atlantic
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Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
Wheels Up
What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
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November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
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Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
Wheels Up
What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
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November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
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The presidents of elite universities are at war with one another over how to respond to the Trump administration’s attacks. It’s the secret battle that will determine the future of higher education in America: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Elite University Presidents Who Despise One Another
Inside the civil war between the Ivy League and the South
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August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The presidents of elite universities are at war with one another over how to respond to the Trump administration’s attacks. It’s the secret battle that will determine the future of higher education in America: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Joseph Kurihara had faith in America—but it didn’t have faith in him. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social on a veteran who left the United States forever:
How Joseph Kurihara Lost His Faith in America
He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.
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July 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Joseph Kurihara had faith in America—but it didn’t have faith in him. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social on a veteran who left the United States forever:
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Joseph Kurihara had faith in America—but it didn’t have faith in him. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social on a veteran who left the United States forever:
How Joseph Kurihara Lost His Faith in America
He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Joseph Kurihara had faith in America—but it didn’t have faith in him. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social on a veteran who left the United States forever:
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During World War II, the U.S. forced more than 125,000 Japanese Americans into prison camps. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social’s grandmother was one of them. She rarely spoke of it when she was released. But other prisoners became dissidents—and some, exiles. https://theatln.tc/mvTHKcOz
July 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
During World War II, the U.S. forced more than 125,000 Japanese Americans into prison camps. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social’s grandmother was one of them. She rarely spoke of it when she was released. But other prisoners became dissidents—and some, exiles. https://theatln.tc/mvTHKcOz
For @theatlantic.com's August issue, I wrote about the last time the U.S. government said a group of immigrants posed a threat to national security, and what one man did in response:
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He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.
How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America
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July 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
For @theatlantic.com's August issue, I wrote about the last time the U.S. government said a group of immigrants posed a threat to national security, and what one man did in response:
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When America entered World War I, Joseph Kurihara became a soldier. When it entered World War II, he became a prisoner, a dissident, and ultimately an exile. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social tells his story in our August issue:
How Joseph Kurihara Lost His Faith in America
He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
When America entered World War I, Joseph Kurihara became a soldier. When it entered World War II, he became a prisoner, a dissident, and ultimately an exile. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social tells his story in our August issue:
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I learned so much from this amazing @sarahzhang.bsky.social piece about the human brain and consciousness—which it turns out scientists are only just beginning to understand.
Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
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Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
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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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May 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I learned so much from this amazing @sarahzhang.bsky.social piece about the human brain and consciousness—which it turns out scientists are only just beginning to understand.
Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
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Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
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To say that something is straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel is only a slightly less clichéd way of saying that truth, especially in Florida, is stranger than fiction.
For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
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For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
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We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
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May 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
To say that something is straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel is only a slightly less clichéd way of saying that truth, especially in Florida, is stranger than fiction.
For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
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Donald Trump’s comeback has convinced him that he’s invincible, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social report. But now the cracks are beginning to show.
Read more in our new cover story: https://theatln.tc/jM9agmN7
Read more in our new cover story: https://theatln.tc/jM9agmN7
April 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Donald Trump’s comeback has convinced him that he’s invincible, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social report. But now the cracks are beginning to show.
Read more in our new cover story: https://theatln.tc/jM9agmN7
Read more in our new cover story: https://theatln.tc/jM9agmN7
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On Election Night 2024, addressing no one in particular, Trump spoke.
“You know, they made a big mistake,” he said. “They could have been getting rid of us by now. But actually, we’re just beginning.”
My @theatlantic.com cover w @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
“You know, they made a big mistake,” he said. “They could have been getting rid of us by now. But actually, we’re just beginning.”
My @theatlantic.com cover w @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
On Election Night 2024, addressing no one in particular, Trump spoke.
“You know, they made a big mistake,” he said. “They could have been getting rid of us by now. But actually, we’re just beginning.”
My @theatlantic.com cover w @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
“You know, they made a big mistake,” he said. “They could have been getting rid of us by now. But actually, we’re just beginning.”
My @theatlantic.com cover w @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Atlantic is proud to announce that “American Cowardice,” by Jamie Thompson, has won the 2025 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Read Jamie’s story, from our March 2024 issue, here:
To Stop a Shooter
Why would an armed officer stand by as a school shooting unfolds?
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April 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Atlantic is proud to announce that “American Cowardice,” by Jamie Thompson, has won the 2025 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Read Jamie’s story, from our March 2024 issue, here:
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
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In our May issue:
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how Orbán’s Hungary could be America's future
George Packer on how Trump got GOP leaders to betray an entire worldview
Aziz Huq on America’s dual state
Plus, @markleibovich.bsky.social profiles Ringo Starr
Read it all: theatln.tc/VIJv6P3O
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how Orbán’s Hungary could be America's future
George Packer on how Trump got GOP leaders to betray an entire worldview
Aziz Huq on America’s dual state
Plus, @markleibovich.bsky.social profiles Ringo Starr
Read it all: theatln.tc/VIJv6P3O
March 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In our May issue:
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how Orbán’s Hungary could be America's future
George Packer on how Trump got GOP leaders to betray an entire worldview
Aziz Huq on America’s dual state
Plus, @markleibovich.bsky.social profiles Ringo Starr
Read it all: theatln.tc/VIJv6P3O
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how Orbán’s Hungary could be America's future
George Packer on how Trump got GOP leaders to betray an entire worldview
Aziz Huq on America’s dual state
Plus, @markleibovich.bsky.social profiles Ringo Starr
Read it all: theatln.tc/VIJv6P3O
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“Peace and love, peace and love,” Starr said back to a cluster of onlookers, sounding cheerfully bored. He paused and puffed out his cheeks into an ostentatious deep breath. I imagine that’s one of the hassles of immortality: It tends to go on forever."
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Ringo Starr’s Enduring Optimism
“Nobody has generated more goodwill than Ringo,” says the producer T Bone Burnett. “Not a single person in the world.”
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March 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“Peace and love, peace and love,” Starr said back to a cluster of onlookers, sounding cheerfully bored. He paused and puffed out his cheeks into an ostentatious deep breath. I imagine that’s one of the hassles of immortality: It tends to go on forever."
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www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen. theatln.tc/AHkpb39A
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen. theatln.tc/AHkpb39A
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Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former jihadist who has styled himself a moderate, is the only thing holding Syria together, Robert F. Worth writes. Some Syrians believe his transformation; even those who don’t worry that if Sharaa can’t save them, perhaps no one can. theatln.tc/u1CwyUoz
March 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former jihadist who has styled himself a moderate, is the only thing holding Syria together, Robert F. Worth writes. Some Syrians believe his transformation; even those who don’t worry that if Sharaa can’t save them, perhaps no one can. theatln.tc/u1CwyUoz
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March 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Quality journalism takes work—and your support. Subscribe to The Atlantic and get a year of fact-checked reporting that’s worth your time and your trust. TheAtlantic.com/subscribe
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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
March 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
One year ago today, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office formally exonerated C. J. Rice. He had spent more than a decade in prison. Read @jaketapper.bsky.social's original @theatlantic.com story, which set Rice's exoneration in motion:
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This Is Not Justice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
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March 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One year ago today, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office formally exonerated C. J. Rice. He had spent more than a decade in prison. Read @jaketapper.bsky.social's original @theatlantic.com story, which set Rice's exoneration in motion:
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Decades ago, middle-class Canadian families would send their sons out West to work on the railroad.
Graydon Carter was one of these young men—and the time he spent working on the railroad changed the course of his life:
Graydon Carter was one of these young men—and the time he spent working on the railroad changed the course of his life:
Working on the Railroad Changed My Life
Nothing I had done before could match the sense of accomplishment and sheer exhilaration.
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March 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Decades ago, middle-class Canadian families would send their sons out West to work on the railroad.
Graydon Carter was one of these young men—and the time he spent working on the railroad changed the course of his life:
Graydon Carter was one of these young men—and the time he spent working on the railroad changed the course of his life:
Is J.D. Vance *actually* Appalachian? And does it matter? For @theatlantic.com, I tried to find out:
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Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?
Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Is J.D. Vance *actually* Appalachian? And does it matter? For @theatlantic.com, I tried to find out:
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The debate over J. D. Vance’s Appalachian roots uncovers the region’s complicated history, Andrew Aoyama writes in Time-Travel Thursday: theatln.tc/L7gOlfN3
Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?
Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography.
theatln.tc
February 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The debate over J. D. Vance’s Appalachian roots uncovers the region’s complicated history, Andrew Aoyama writes in Time-Travel Thursday: theatln.tc/L7gOlfN3
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In The Atlantic’s April cover story, James Murdoch, the exiled scion, speaks with @mckaycoppins.bsky.social about his father’s “twisted” actions, the bitter divide within his family, and the battle over the future of conservative media. theatln.tc/R3sUcBEc
February 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In The Atlantic’s April cover story, James Murdoch, the exiled scion, speaks with @mckaycoppins.bsky.social about his father’s “twisted” actions, the bitter divide within his family, and the battle over the future of conservative media. theatln.tc/R3sUcBEc