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The Christians Who Loved Trump’s Stunt
The president’s photo op outside St. John’s Church was emblematic of his appeal to the religious right.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Christian nationalism is not fundamentally about theology. “It’s about identity, enforcing hierarchy, and order.” Must-read @mckaycoppins
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When Time Loses All Meaning
How a pandemic transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar
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Adrienne LaFrance
What is time anymore? Read @aiww on space, location, scale, and time as "the undergirding of self-knowledge."
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Adrienne LaFrance
Just-published cover story by @AnneApplebaum. This is the kind of story you never forget about, once you've read it.
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Christo Found Beauty in Realizing the Impossible
The conceptual artist, who died yesterday at 84, made constructing quixotic, monumental projects his life’s work.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"The point of their vision... was to prove instead that colossal, difficult, complicated schemes could be realized for no other reason than to make the world more beautiful... the sheer magnitude of what’s possible."
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The Congresswoman Pepper-Sprayed by Police
In that moment, Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty said, she was just another black American attacked while protesting injustice.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"Racism is still alive. We see that all over the nation. We see the disparities. We see the voter suppression. That’s why I was there—as an individual who happens to also be the people’s congresswoman."
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America’s Worst Year
The most traumatic year in recent American history—1968—offers some disquieting lessons for the present.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"In some ways, the comparison between 1968 and 2020 might make Americans today feel better, or at least consoled on the basis that things have been terrible before.
But here are two implications that cut the other way."
@JamesFallows's latest
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Trump Is Afraid
Violent demonstrations across the United States bring out a particular weakness in the 45th president.
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Adrienne LaFrance
As @PeterAtlantic prepared to leave the White House yesterday, a Secret Service agent asked him: “Are you sure you want to go out there?”
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A Dispatch From the Brink of Catastrophe
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Lieutenant General Russell L. Honoré helped prevent an even worse crisis by making this point to officials: “Don’t ever tell law enforcement to shoot to kill your own people.”
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Adrienne LaFrance
"The way we say in the Army: It takes a little time to do difficult shit. It takes a little longer to do fucking impossible."
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Are They Police Departments or Armies?
The thin blue line looks like it’s ready to invade a foreign nation.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“The mission of the police is to protect and serve. But the premise of the soldier is to engage the enemy in close combat and destroy them. When you blur those lines together… It’s an absolute breakdown of civil society.”
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America Is Stuck in the Data Past
Some reopening states are already claiming victory over the coronavirus. But the real consequences won’t be clear for weeks.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“Humans tend to think of illness as a binary. You are sick or you aren’t, which feels simple and knowable. In reality, most types of communicable disease are far less black and white: People are infected before they become aware that they’re sick.”
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Trump’s Audience of One
The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter. It’s about Mark Zuckerberg.
Trump’s Warped Definition of Free Speech
The president is attempting to bring social-media platforms into his authoritarian infrastructure—or otherwise censor them.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"The president’s actions are little more than an attempt to use state authority to intimidate social media companies into amplifying his falsehoods."
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Refusing to Wear a Mask Is an Empty Act of Defiance
Those who reject facial coverings during the pandemic do so amid broad consensus about what public safety demands.
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The Problem With CNN’s Brother Act
Instead of pressing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for answers, the cable network had his younger sibling ask him questions.
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Adrienne LaFrance
This is a really smart piece by @GrahamDavidA on an arrangement that's hard to see as anything but an extremely basic conflict of interest
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Grappling With a Terrible Milestone: One Hundred Thousand Dead
To mourn in a moment of collective trauma is to experience not one but multiple layers of loss.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“Grief needs a vessel: It needs language, it needs lamentation, it needs expression, it needs demarcation in time...”
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The Best Shaming Happens in Private
Internet mobs go after those who break social-distancing rules, but society has a better way to enforce norms.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"The mobs are doing God’s work, but badly." So many memorable lines in @gcaw's latest
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Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President
Why don’t the president’s supporters hold him to their own standard of masculinity?
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Adrienne LaFrance
“Put another way, as a question I have asked many of the men I know: Is Trump a man your father and grandfather would have respected?”
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Adrienne LaFrance
"Trump is an obvious coward. He has two particular phobias: powerful men and intelligent women."
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The Advice That Most 2020 Commencement Speakers Won’t Give
Here’s the speech that graduates need to hear.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"Do I offer commiseration
to this groundbreakingly screwed generation?
...
Your grandparents had to take LSD
to blow up consensus reality."
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30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
These films, each unforgettable in its own way, are essential viewing.