The Atlanticflipped into All Stories4 hours agoThe Kari Lake Effectverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Elaine GodfreyKari Lake, who’s still trying to overturn her November election loss in Arizona, is one of four women Trump is considering for VP, according to a new report from Axios. Lake is flirting with another possibility too. But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic. A view of American history …
The Atlanticflipped into Culture5 hours agoWhat Ordinary Family Photos Teach Us About Ourselvesverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Syreeta McFaddenIn our family, my aunt Burnette was the designated photographer. Or at least that was what I thought when, as a child, I’d page through the family photo albums at her home. Her beautiful portraits—of my cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and great-grandparents in southeastern Wisconsin—captured …
The Atlanticflipped into Global8 hours agoA Month Since the Devastating Earthquake in Turkeyverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Alan TaylorThis week marked the passing of one month since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck near the Turkish city of Gaziantep on February 6, followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks. More than 50,000 deaths have been reported across southern Turkey and northwestern Syria. Rescue and recovery efforts have …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories8 hours agoPrepare for the Textpocalypseverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Matthew KirschenbaumWhat if, in the end, we are done in not by intercontinental ballistic missiles or climate change, not by microscopic pathogens or a mountain-size meteor, but by … text? Simple, plain, unadorned text, but in quantities so immense as to be all but unimaginable—a tsunami of text swept into a …
The Atlanticflipped into Culture9 hours agoArnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Actverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Mark LeibovichArnold Schwarzenegger nearly killed me. I had joined him one morning as he rushed through his daily routine. Schwarzenegger gets up by six. He makes coffee, putters around, feeds Whiskey (his miniature horse) and Lulu (his miniature donkey), shovels their overnight manure into a barrel, drinks his …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories12 hours agoA View of American History That Leads to One Conclusionverified_publisherThe Atlantic - George PackerWhen I was in school, American history was taught as a series of triumphs over wrongs that belonged to the past. Slavery was evil, but the Civil War ended it; then the civil-rights movement ended segregation. The vote was extended to more and more Americans—starting with white men, then women, …