The Manosphere Turns on Trump
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Illustration by Lucy Naland. Source: Getty. The Surprising Reason for the New Homophobia
Americans are burned-out, frustrated, and hunting for scapegoats.
AFP / Getty The Kurdish Ground Force Preparing to Fight in Iran
The Peshmerga on the Iraq-Iran border are eager to join the American campaign. They’re also deeply uneasy about where it might lead.
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Demis Hassabis has devoted his life to advancing a technology he thinks could destroy the world.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Nicholas J. Fuentes / Rumble. Nick Fuentes’s Strategy is Working
Viral clips of the far-right white supremacist are growing his audience.
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic America’s Raw-Cheddar Chaos
The FDA has linked an E. Coli outbreak to contaminated cheese. The company that makes it refuses to agree to a recall.
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What if we thought about waiting in line as a sudden opening of time?
The Worst Airport in America
Traveling by plane anywhere is bad right now, but in some places, it’s worse.
Why Are Dogs So Obsessed With Lamb Chop?
In a market with thousands of toys, somehow the 1960s puppet has become ubiquitous. (From 2024)
Illustration by Alice Piaggio How Puberty Kills Girls’ Confidence
In their tween and teenage years, girls become dramatically less self-assured—a feeling that often lasts through adulthood. (From 2018)
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Letters From the Dust Bowl
When drought struck Oklahoma in the 1930s, the author and her husband stayed behind to protect their 28-year-old farm. Her letters to a friend paint a picture of dire poverty, desiccated soil, and long days with no sunshine. (From 1936)
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Harris / House of Lords the david frum show•Episode 52The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West
The historian Andrew Roberts on why many right-wing podcasters now believe that the wrong side won the Second World War, and the rise of algorithmically driven pseudo-historians. Plus: Trump is looking for an off-ramp from his war in Iran, and Gore Vidal’s novel Burr.
Renee Klahr / The Atlantic galaxy brain•Episode 21What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later?
An early Twitter exec reckons with the monster he helped create.
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There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
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Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.
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