The Atlanticflipped into All Stories9 hours agoTesla Just Killed the Most Important Car of the 21st Centuryverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Patrick GeorgeThe Model S deserved better than this. Before Elon Musk, most electric vehicles seemed less like an alternative to gasoline than an argument in its favor. The sad state of affairs for EVs for many years was that they were slow, impractical, and largely enticing only if you lived with copious guilt …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories11 hours agoTrump Shrugs Off the Ilhan Omar Attackverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By David A. GrahamHe baselessly claimed that the congresswoman “probably had herself sprayed.” The attack on Representative Ilhan Omar on Tuesday was horrifying but depressingly predictable. Not only has the country seen a recent spree of political violence, but Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, has also been a …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories13 hours agoAnother Way to Be an Americanverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Jake LundbergThe idea of a “trans-national America” argued against forcing immigrants into an Anglo-Saxon mold. In 1915, former President Theodore Roosevelt criss-crossed the country as a champion of what he called “Americanism.” The concept was becoming commonplace in American discourse, marking a stand against …
The Atlanticflipped into Ideas14 hours agoMAGA’s War on Empathyverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Hillary Rodham ClintonThis crisis in Minneapolis reveals a deep moral rot at the heart of Trump’s movement. When I first saw the video of the killing of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital, I immediately thought of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Federal agents shot Pretti after he tried to help a …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories16 hours agoThe Three Lessons of Minneapolisverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Peter WehnerWhat happened in the city is important, and won’t be forgotten. The events in Minneapolis, especially the horrifying killing of two Americans, reconfirmed one awful thing and taught us two encouraging things. What was reconfirmed was the sheer malevolence and cruelty of the Trump administration. It …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories16 hours agoRage in the U.S.A.verified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Spencer KornhaberBruce Springsteen has never sounded angrier than on his new song, “Streets of Minneapolis.” The first few strums of Bruce Springsteen’s new song make you feel like you’re in for, well, a Bruce Springsteen song—a rollicking sing-along about rough-and-tumble but ultimately hopeful times in some …
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