Attempts to disparage and discredit The Atlantic, our editor, and our reporting follow an obvious playbook by elected officials and others in power who are hostile to journalists and the First Amendment rights of all Americans.
Anna Bross
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- Today @TheAtlantic begins a series of interviews by @ejeancarroll with women who, like Carroll, alleged that they have been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump. Part 1. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
- DHS officials worked to keep parents and children apart for extended periods of time, lamenting when reunifications happened too quickly. “We can’t have this,” a deputy at ICE wrote, as reunification “obviously undermines the entire effort.” Live now: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- This is devastating detail upon detail, ending with this: Trump has asked his staff not to include wounded veterans in military parades, on grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. “Nobody wants to see that,” he said.
- Emmett Till would have been 80 this weekend. The Mississippi barn where Till was killed sits, unmarked and unmemorialized, on a local dentist's property; it now stores the family's Christmas decorations, lawn mower, and outboard motor. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- This morning, @anneapplebaum gives testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on how the U.S. should combat authoritarianism: foreign.senate.gov/hearings/comba… Here's her instructive recent cover story on the topic: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- “America is now a different country. Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they wanted more of it.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
- This is a culmination of a series of questions I've been asking for the past 8 years. @tanehisicoates @thedailyshow cc.com/video-clips/vb…
- Big news. @jaketapper found that the broader case against Rice was full of weaknesses. And despite thin evidence and a dubious eyewitness account, Rice was convicted and sentenced to at least 30 and as many as 60 years in prison.Last year, @jaketapper wrote about C. J. Rice, a teenager sentenced to prison for a crime he insists he didn’t commit. Today, Rice’s conviction was overturned. He now awaits a decision from the District Attorney on whether to retry the case—or release him. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- "With his incitement of a direct assault on the people’s house, the president has forfeited his claim to finish his term. The House must again impeach him, and the Senate must vote to remove him." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
- "Many Americans have embraced conspiracy theories as a way to give order and meaning to the world’s chance cruelties. Lara Logan seems to have done the same, rewriting her story as a martyrdom epic in the war of narratives." New from @elainaplott: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- Reading and rereading @MollyJongFast. "When Jackson repeated a similar sentiment in the halls of the Senate, I realized that while America has changed since my mother’s era, our collective maternal guilt hasn’t necessarily lifted." newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/emai…
- Yes to all of this from @helenlewis. When people celebrate that "William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton did some of their best work while England was ravaged by the plague, there is an obvious response: Neither of them had childcare responsibilities." theatlantic.com/international/…
- My high school gym—home to the single three-point shot I landed in freshman basketball and countless marching band drills—is all shined up for this Biden-Harris rally.
