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Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’ Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

"Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine."

Charles Yu in The Atlantic:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

‘I Have Agreed to Talk’ Trump tells The Atlantic that Iranian leaders want to resume negotiations.

The Atlantic’s @michaelscherer.bsky.social just spoke with the president, who had this to say about Iran:

“They could have made a deal. They should’ve done it sooner. They played too cute.”

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens Someone just put a lot of money on ET.

👽👽👽👽👽

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Capital Weather Gang rules

Thank you! Will follow

Hello people of the internet! Hoping for some collective wisdom here: Who are your most-trusted meteorologists in Boston, New York, Philly, D.C.? I'm trying to understand this absurd snow situation.

Black History Month Is Radical Now A nation that wants to forget its past must be reminded of all of it.

"These facts cannot be changed; only how they are remembered can."

@adamhsays.com's latest:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

James Van Der Beek’s Greatest Trick In a short-lived sitcom, he gamely mocked his role in “Dawson’s Creek”—and found freedom.

Dawson's Creek 4ever www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

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This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is the kind of essay you read and remember forever. Please make time for it.

Elizabeth Bruenig is so talented:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Democrats Aren’t Built for This They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.

Et voilà: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Does Pam Bondi have any red lines? The attorney general doesn’t say no to Donald Trump, Stephanie McCrummen reported last month. Arguably, the future of the MAGA movement and the sanctity of the Constitution depend on what she’s willing to do next. theatln.tc/Y6rE8WIR

The Democrats Aren’t Built for This They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.

🚨NEW LEIBOVICH FEATURE ALERT🚨

I repeat, new story by @markleibovich.bsky.social!

Time to read, everybody:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve? The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.

This is really something.

Excellent reporting from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @yvonnewingett.bsky.social:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The March for Billionaires Was a Funeral for Irony “Tip your landlord.”

Nobody can readily discern irony from sincerity anymore in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and perhaps anywhere. As for The March for Billionaires? Well, you had to be there...

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?

Only @tyrangiel.bsky.social could write about something so high-stakes and still make it this entertaining:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht? Advice for Jeff Bezos

No one does it like @petridishes.bsky.social:

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You Can’t Kill Swagger My old corner of The Washington Post raised some of the best journalists in the business.

In which @sallyjenx.bsky.social so beautifully captures want makes a great newsroom truly great.

Here’s to all of the wildly dedicated people who—no matter the hour, the destination, or the danger—grab a notebook and run toward the action no matter what.

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

This Is Not the Kennedy Center Trump’s vision for the arts is nothing like what John F. Kennedy’s was.

A smart, perceptive essay by the great Lily Meyer—on two American presidents, and two very different notions of the arts: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

"We deserve so much better."

Read @ashleyrparker.bsky.social on what it means to love a newspaper—both for the citizens who rely on it, and the people who make it.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Stop Meeting Students Where They Are What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.

Everybody listen to Walt. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

How to Have a ‘Don’t-Know Mind’ My quest to understand consciousness took me to a cave in New Mexico and then deep into the cosmos.

Part of what makes @michaelpollan.bsky.social so compulsively readable is that he doesn't take himself too seriously.

Here's his latest, new in The Atlantic:

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

SCOOP from @nickmiroff.bsky.social:

• Bovino demoted

• "Kristi Noem and her close adviser Corey Lewandowski, who were Bovino’s biggest backers at DHS, are also at risk of losing their jobs"

More here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Minneapolis Is a Second Amendment Wake-Up Call The federal killing of a Minnesota ICU nurse should worry every American.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Tyler Austin Harper’s latest is very much worth reading:

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Yes, It’s Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

“Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse.”
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George Saunders Has a New Mantra The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

George Saunders is famously kind—but he’s also hilarious. I spoke with him about where his ideas come from, how he deploys humor in his work, and more.

www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

What Happened to Pam Bondi? How the attorney general became a person who loves telling Trump yes

Must-read of the day:

Stephanie McCrummens’s deep-dive profile of Pam Bondi

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was first published in The Atlantic in August 1963.

Today is a very good day to read it again.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

Must-read @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Minnesota Had Its Birmingham Moment In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it—and it’s working.

“In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it…”

@galbeckerman’s latest:

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...