This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Good morning, and welcome to The Daily’s new Sunday culture edition. Every weekend, one Atlantic writer will reveal what’s keeping them entertained.Today’s special guest is senior editor Hanna Rosin, who hosts our Radio Atlantic podcast.
This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine.The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is a busy place. Roughly 21 miles offshore from Boston’s harbor, the waters are a rich fishing ground, a whale migration route, a shipping channel, and a diving locale. Overseeing the sanctuary, which sits at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay, falls to Deputy Superintendent Ben Haskell, along with Superintendent Pete DeCola, 14 support staff, and two boats. Access to MarineTraffic.
During the years when the social-media platform MySpace ruled the internet—roughly 2005 to 2008—it fueled a cultural phenomenon known as the “Scene.” The term encompassed young people who liked to flat iron and dye their hair until their bangs resembled sheafs of carbon fiber. They wore skinny jeans and vampiric eyeshadow; they listened to energetic rock possessed with strident vulnerability (signature bands: Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Panic! at the Disco).
The administration is expected to unveil the first 10 drugs selected for price negotiations Tuesday, in a milestone for the president’s health agenda.
The timing gap prompted concerns from public health experts, who fear that it would further complicate the fall vaccination campaign.
The settlements resolve a long-running criminal probe of the generic pharmaceutical industry dating to 2014.
Bipartisan legislation aims to get more Americans into high-deductible insurance, but perils would remain.
The administration doesn’t expect to finalize contracts with pharmacies distributing the vaccine to the uninsured until mid-October, weeks after the shot is made widely available.
It is “racist” to suggest that Ramaswamy’s conservative views make him a race traitor, the Indian-American GOP Republican presidential hopeful said.
Say cheese! Trump’s mug shot is likely to play a leading role in campaign fundraising appeals through the 2024 election.
“Our economy is the lowest it’s been.
The Biden administration has hit hard the president’s economic policy, known as “Bidenomics,” amid falling inflation, steady job growth and diminished talk of a forthcoming recession.
The president made a big bet on owning the economy. His team says give it time.
The Florida governor has made a name for himself with the fights he’s picked.
Tennessee’s Republican-dominated state Legislature is still facing public outcry over the state’s permissive gun laws in the wake of Nashville’s Covenant School shooting, which killed three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members in March. Since then, the state House, under the control of Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton, has censured its own representatives and deployed state troopers to crack down on public participation.
While being booked for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump made history as the first former president to have his mugshot taken and released to the public. Shortly after the image of Trump scowling at a police camera started to circulate, the embattled real estate mogul and politician began using it to raise money for his 2024 presidential campaign.
Former President Donald Trump was booked Thursday at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on 13 felony charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. He paid $20,000, or 10% of his $200,000 bond, through a local bail bondsman, allowing him to be released after about 20 minutes at the jail. He is expected to face trial as early as October.
The first Republican presidential primary debate highlighted “deep divisions within the Republican Party about foreign policy,” says The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols. He says the nationalist “America First” ideology championed by former President Donald Trump is now being pushed even further by Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis, who are critical of U.S.
Jones went after politicians’ “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of a Jacksonville shooting that a local sheriff described as “racially motivated.
Co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro was assigned an Oct. 23 trial date after recently asking to expedite the process.
Editor’s Note: Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here. Former President Donald Trump surrendered to authorities at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday evening on felony charges connected to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential-election results in Georgia.
Remember The Stepford Wives? Maybe not. In that 1975 horror film, the human wives of Stepford, Connecticut, are having their identities copied and transferred to robotic replicas of themselves, minus any contrariness that their husbands find irritating. The robot wives then murder the real wives and replace them. Better sex and better housekeeping for the husbands, death for the uniqueness, creativity, and indeed the humanity of the wives.
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.Over the years, my fellow Atlantic writers have published many bold arguments. But the case Ian Bogost made this month is perhaps one of the bravest in recent years: Flaking on plans is not so terrible, he argued.
This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine.For expectant parents, pregnancy can be a time filled with joyful anticipation: hearing the beating of a tiny heart, watching the fetus wiggling through the black-and-white blur of an ultrasound, feeling the jostling of a little being in the belly as it swells.But for many, pregnancy also comes with serious health issues that can endanger both parent and child. In May, for example, the U.S.
Since last spring, roughly 100,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City. This is a city of immigrants, welcoming to immigrants, built by immigrants. People who were born abroad make up a third of New York’s population and own more than half of its businesses. Yet the city has struggled to accommodate this wave of new arrivals. Migrants are selling candy on the subways, sleeping on the streets in Midtown, waiting for spots in homeless shelters.
Laurence Tribe said the Constitution “couldn’t be clearer” on why someone like Trump can’t return to office.
The administration is expected to unveil the first 10 drugs selected for price negotiations Tuesday, in a milestone for the president’s health agenda.
The timing gap prompted concerns from public health experts, who fear that it would further complicate the fall vaccination campaign.
The settlements resolve a long-running criminal probe of the generic pharmaceutical industry dating to 2014.
