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Trump Is an Easy Mark for PutinOctober 10, 2026 · The Atlantic
Those Books of Smut and WonderOctober 10, 2026 · The Atlantic
Does Megyn Kelly Actually Believe What She’s Saying?October 10, 2026 · The Atlantic
Human of Mass DestructionOctober 10, 2026 · The Atlantic
Why France’s Center Does Not HoldOctober 10, 2026 · The Atlantic
As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and DronesOctober 10, 2026 · ProPublica
Watch: Inside Our $22K Sports Betting ExperimentOctober 10, 2026 · ProPublica
How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of How Memories Form and Falter in the BrainOctober 10, 2026 · The Marginalian
Public Execution Won’t Have the Effect Trump IntendsOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Real Harm of a Public ExecutionOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Secret Power of AmbivalenceOctober 9, 2026 · The Marginalian
Whatever Happened to Friday Night?October 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
Anne Carson’s Point of ViewOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
Is Crypto Dead? Or More Influential Than Ever?October 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department OfficialOctober 9, 2026 · ProPublica
The Year Anne Carson Changed My LifeOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
Passages We Underlined This FallOctober 9, 2026 · The Paris Review
The GuardiansOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
Our Fathers’ AffairsOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
Why Am I So Annoyed That This Restaurant Wants My Number?October 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
Possibly the Most Monstrous Reality Show Ever MadeOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Many Ways AI Could Disrupt the MidtermsOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
The GOP’s Message to ImmigrantsOctober 9, 2026 · The Atlantic
Barbara Ward’s visionOctober 9, 2026 · Aeon
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.October 9, 2026 · ProPublica
An Arizona County’s “Housing Hub” Is a Dead End for Many Homeless FamiliesOctober 9, 2026 · ProPublica
Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and How They Awaken to Change the WorldOctober 9, 2026 · The Marginalian
‘Nothing About This Was Inevitable’October 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Trump’s Team of MercenariesOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Anne Carson’s Ecstatic MinimalismOctober 8, 2026 · The New Yorker » Page-Turner
Improvisation and the Quantum of ConsciousnessOctober 8, 2026 · The Marginalian
How to Remake Yourself When You Are Undone: Lincoln and the Gift of His Suicidal DepressionOctober 8, 2026 · The Marginalian
Anne Carson Wins the Nobel Prize in LiteratureOctober 8, 2026 · The Paris Review
Anne Carson’s Seductive StrangenessOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Why America Can’t Fully Escape an Oil CrisisOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
What I Saw at New York’s Anti-Israel October 7 RalliesOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Digger Was Too Much for Tom Cruise to Sell AloneOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
If You Want a Real Digital Commons, Build It YourselfOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Everyone Knew What Happened at Cornell Was WrongOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Triumph of America’s Least Respected GovernorOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Making of a Poem: Natalie Shapero on “The Top of Hell”October 8, 2026 · The Paris Review
Why FBI Officials Are Worried About the MidtermsOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Breakout Music Video of the Year Has a Message for Men. What Is It?October 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
10 Movies That Define the 2020sOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Confessions of a Bad TexterOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Marriage That Captures a High Point of American ArtOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
How the Polls Could Be Wrong AgainOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
One Tax Loophole to Rule Them AllOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Reducing the Number of Generals Isn’t the ProblemOctober 8, 2026 · The Atlantic
Evolution of ManhattanOctober 8, 2026 · Aeon
The ghetto on the lagoonOctober 8, 2026 · Aeon
Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling DebrisOctober 8, 2026 · ProPublica
Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Inspired Mistakes Propel Us ForwardOctober 8, 2026 · The Marginalian
Bessent vs. the Bond MarketOctober 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth LivingOctober 7, 2026 · The Marginalian
How Long Until AI Hacks Everything?October 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
Why American Cities Cost So Much and Deliver So LittleOctober 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
Carrie, With Kid GlovesOctober 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
Prynne’s Last PoemOctober 7, 2026 · The Paris Review
What Aaron Sorkin Forgot About The Social NetworkOctober 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
Why You Should Watch Fauda’s October 7 EpisodesOctober 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Violence Sweeping France Was Never Really About SchoolsOctober 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
I won’t remain aloneOctober 7, 2026 · Aeon
Three Years After October 7, I Moved Back to Nahal OzOctober 7, 2026 · The Atlantic
Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.October 7, 2026 · ProPublica
Why Are We Not Better Than We AreOctober 7, 2026 · The Marginalian
But We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about How to Be More AliveOctober 7, 2026 · The Marginalian
Barack Obama Looks LeftOctober 6, 2026 · The Atlantic
A Constellation of Amazements: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Joy of Collecting ThingsOctober 6, 2026 · The Marginalian
Homme FataleOctober 6, 2026 · The Atlantic
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing IntelligentlyOctober 6, 2026 · The Marginalian
A Battle We Had to Win: Yan Lianke on MatchmakingOctober 6, 2026 · The Paris Review
Zombie OriginalismOctober 6, 2026 · The Atlantic
The Battle for Hormuz Is Not the WarOctober 6, 2026 · The Atlantic
How to assemble scienceOctober 6, 2026 · Aeon
Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention HotlineOctober 6, 2026 · The Marginalian
David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to ArtistsOctober 6, 2026 · The Marginalian
Nietzsche on Walking and CreativityOctober 5, 2026 · The Marginalian
MacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon JuggernautOctober 5, 2026 · The New Yorker » Page-Turner
A life in episodesOctober 5, 2026 · Aeon
Mister Rogers on the Most Important Mindset for a ParentOctober 5, 2026 · The Marginalian
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of FearOctober 5, 2026 · The Marginalian