2025-05-11 11:15:03
.@anneapplebaum speaks with @davidfrum about how authoritarian regimes seek to break institutions, and the pain of losing friendships to politics.
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2025-05-11 09:45:04
Women today might have more freedom and more choices than the characters of the Canadian writer Mavis Gallant do, Maya Chung writes, but the kind of burdenlessness that Gallant’s women seek can still be out of reach. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/books-briefing-mavis-gallant-gornick-women/682761/?taid=68200120ede05d00014a4a78&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
2025-05-11 09:15:03
Donald Trump's most successful business venture isn't his real-estate projects or "The Apprentice." It's crypto, writes @lil_smush: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/trump-crypto-billionaire/682763/?taid=681ffa170e27c40001c8115d&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
2025-05-11 08:15:03
Hitler used tariffs to “liberate” Germany from a globalized world order—careening the economy backwards, Timothy W. Ryback writes. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/nazi-germany-tariffs-trade/682521/?taid=681fec07b2ef730001b937ac&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
2025-05-11 07:15:04
“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” @rosehorowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/?taid=681fddf88a15da00012425ee&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
2025-05-11 06:15:04
The failure of courts to secure murder convictions for the former officers who beat Tyre Nichols, and of politicians to bring greater accountability, means that he will not be the last to suffer an unjust death, @GrahamDavidA writes in The Atlantic Daily: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/tyre-nichols-court-conviction/682772/?taid=681fcfe8c7ed830001b4c5de&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
