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25 of the Best Horror Films You Can Watch, Ranked by Scariness
This list should have something for everyone, no matter your fear-tolerance level.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Obviously I reject the premise that horror movies are for everyone (sorry @davidlsims) but Vanilla Sky is good and this list is brilliant and terrifying.
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Biden Wants to Transform America (Really)
He doesn’t talk like a revolutionary, but he won’t be satisfied with a placeholder presidency.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"One of the great failings of the modern Democratic Party is that its technocratic elite often permitted themselves to govern in the realm of abstraction, to construct overly elaborate blueprints." Read @FranklinFoer's latest
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What George W. Bush Won’t Say About Trump
Anti-Trump Republicans say Bush’s absence from 2020 is “inexcusable.” Bush’s office says he’s staying retired.
The Third Coronavirus Surge Has Arrived
This week’s COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations make clear that the U.S. is once again sinking deeper into the pandemic.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Things are getting worse. Must-read @COVID19Tracking:
⬆️ Spike in cases outpacing increased testing
⬆️ 7-day average case count in Northeast more than doubled in a month
⬆️ Case count up 81 percent Midwest
⬆️ Hospitalizations up in 42 states this week
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Americans Saw Trump Unfiltered and Recoiled in Horror
Polling suggests that the president dealt a severe blow to his reelection chances with his performance in the first debate.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“When you get Trump only in small doses, it’s possible to overlook his incoherence, to dismiss his espousal of conspiracy theories, or to claim that the media are misrepresenting him... with no commercial breaks, those excuses start to dissolve.”
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The Heat Gap
The world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger. In the Earth’s new gilded era, heat will be the defining human-rights issue.
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Adrienne LaFrance
This, by Vann Newkirk II, is so important—and gives a name to a phenomenon that is already shaping so many people's lives: "The Heat Gap" is already here.
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Introducing Atlantic Planet
A new way of thinking about climate change
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Adrienne LaFrance
🌎 Something very big and very important launching at @TheAtlantic today. Introducing Planet, a new approach to covering climate change that @yayitsrob has been dreaming up for years
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The Surprising Value of a Wandering Mind
In a time of Zoom lectures and distracted students, a new book champions an underappreciated state of being.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"Intellectual meandering is key to real learning..." (And also key to brilliant writing.)
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Last Exit From Autocracy
America survived one Trump term. It wouldn’t survive a second.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“The man the Founders dreaded entered the high office they created—and proceeded to abuse that office in just the ways they feared. Now that man is seeking a second term, which would be even more abusive and dangerous.”
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Is There a Safe Way to Be Home for the Holidays?
Throughout the pandemic, Americans have been tempted to violate public-health experts’ recommendations. The winter holidays might be the strongest temptation yet.
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Adrienne LaFrance
For a lot of people, the the answer will be "no, not really." Double Christmas next year instead? Good advice here from @jpinsk for those who feel like skipping the holidays isn't an option
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‘At Least You Get a Judge Out of It’
Conservatives are relishing Amy Coney Barrett’s potential Supreme Court appointment, even if it took Trump to get them there.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Here's a thing @BenSasse told @emmaogreen about Barrett’s confirmation hearings, which begin today: “Right now, I think there are a whole bunch of arsonists in Washington, D.C., who don’t think about the public trust.”
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How to Keep a Fall Surge From Becoming a Winter Catastrophe
What we can learn from other countries to avoid the worst-case scenario
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Adrienne LaFrance
“American and European citizens have to embrace both empiricism and imperfection... A silver bullet may be months away, or longer. But bronze bullets abound.”
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Trump Failed the 3 A.M. Test
Don’t let him answer another call.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“The death toll is still rising––every week, COVID-19 is killing more Americans than died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.”
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What Joe Can Learn From Ike
Typically, presidential campaigns are all about noise and change, but Eisenhower instinctively understood how deeply Americans wanted to calm down and get back to normal.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"As Joe Biden finishes up the last few weeks of his campaign, in a country marred by hyperpartisanship and disorder, he could do worse than to study the quiet way Eisenhower helped his party to win."
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The Many Beginnings of Louise Glück
The American poet, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, examines our compulsion to tell the same stories, again and again.
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Adrienne LaFrance
The best essay I have read about Louise Glück, by the great Walt Hunter. One striking aspect of her genius is this: "beginning with optimism despite the knowledge of the sadness to come"
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Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy
Fearing defeat at the polls, the GOP is laying the groundwork to delegitimize the results, and to block an electoral majority from governing.
Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders
Fears from the summer appear to have been overblown.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“One might argue, again, that any risk is too great, and that schools must be completely safe before local governments move to reopen them. But this approach ignores the enormous costs to children from closed schools.”
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The Mad Genius of Eddie Van Halen
He boiled strings, cut vibrato bars in half, put the head of one guitar on the body of another—and created a sound that changed rock forever.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Only a writer like James Parker could so perfectly describe the "puffy, moon-landing" chords in "Jump." A perfect tribute to an outrageous talent.
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Atlas Coughed
Donald Trump has steadily turned masks into symbols—not of government overreach, but of governmental impunity.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"The message of the president’s bare face is clear: It refuses to acknowledge the preferences—or the needs—of other people."
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How to Protect Your Happiness This Election Season
Talking and reading too much about politics could damage your well-being and your relationships.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“Those watching the most partisan television news sources—on both the left and the right—were often less knowledgeable about world events than those who consumed no news at all...”
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