Adrienne LaFrance
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The Power of the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Three Decades Later
Marina Koren - The Atlantic 3d 3 tweets
The spacecraft that captured the famous, fuzzy photo grows weaker each year, but the image still soothes.
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Adrienne LaFrance Read on what may be the most romantic photo in the history of the universe. 3d
Did Trump Lose His Big Gamble on Biden?
David A. Graham - The Atlantic 4d 2 tweets
The president got himself impeached in the frantic pursuit of a candidate who now looks like an also-ran.
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Adrienne LaFrance “It’s plausible that Trump has placed his chips on knocking Biden out, not realizing that Biden was never the major challenge he appeared.” 3d
Tinder’s Most Notorious Men
The Atlantic 4d 3 tweets
The users who reappear after countless left swipes have become modern urban legends.
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Adrienne LaFrance “Though his Tinder bio says that he lives in New York, his apartment is actually in Jersey City—which explains the kitchen...” 4d
John Kelly Finally Lets Loose on Trump
The Atlantic 4d 40 tweets
The former chief of staff explained, in the clearest terms yet, his misgivings with Trump’s behavior regarding North Korea, immigration, and Ukraine.
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Adrienne LaFrance This is a big deal. By 4d
Andrew Yang Is Dropping Out. Here’s Why.
The Atlantic 5d 5 tweets
And here’s what he accomplished.
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Adrienne LaFrance Yang’s out. Here’s what he told in an exclusive interview last night: “If my efforts help ensure that Donald Trump doesn’t win, then I’ll be there every freaking moment of every freaking day... What are we doing here otherwise?” 5d
Poor Countries Are the Front Line Against Coronavirus
The Atlantic 8d 10 tweets
Global defenses against new infectious diseases are only as strong as the health systems in the most vulnerable communities.
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Adrienne LaFrance The central lessons of Coronavirus and Ebola are the same: "Temporary support in the aftermath of an epidemic is not a substitute for much greater investment... in health care in the most vulnerable countries all around the globe." 7d
The Nuclear Family Was Never Going to Last
The Atlantic 7d 53 tweets
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
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Adrienne LaFrance “In 1970, the family structures of the rich and poor did not differ that greatly. Now there is a chasm between them.” So much to think about in this cover story 7d
A Republic, If We Can Keep It
The Atlantic 13d 10 tweets
The government set up by James Madison and the other Founders requires a virtuous public and virtuous leaders—or the whole system will fail.
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Adrienne LaFrance Fascinating piece about civility as a measure of one’s self-restraint, rather than “a blunt demand for our opponents to restrain themselves.” 12d
Classical Music Has a ‘God Status’ Problem
The Atlantic 17d 4 tweets
The #MeToo movement has done little to challenge power dynamics in conservatories. Young musicians want to know why.
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Adrienne LaFrance This is a really important story. , , and interviewed more than four dozen young musicians about their experiences navigating an insular culture built on hierarchy, critique, and reputation. 17d
The Founders Set an Extremely High Bar for Impeachment
The Atlantic 17d 2 tweets
And that’s probably a good thing.
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Adrienne LaFrance “The Founders did not make it too hard to remove a president. They made it possible, but difficult, and that was the right place to land.” But, writes, they’d be horrified by today’s factionalism. Smart, important 17d
The Trouble With Hard Numbers During Uncertain Outbreaks
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 20d 23 tweets
Here’s what the oft-cited R0 number tells us about the new outbreak—and what it doesn’t.
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Adrienne LaFrance "The number is a measure of potential transmissibility. It does not actually tell you how fast a disease will spread." A really useful piece by 20d
Kobe Bryant’s Unfinished Business
Ross Andersen - The Atlantic 21d 4 tweets
It’s tragic that a superstar known for his thoughtfulness and willingness to learn never fully reckoned with his life’s darkest off-court episode.
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Adrienne LaFrance "Bryant always seemed to have one more pivot in him. Maybe, had he lived, he would have tried to confront the contradictions that marked his relationships to women, including his accuser." 21d
The Utter Ridiculousness of the U.S. Senate
The Atlantic 21d 6 tweets
The world’s greatest deliberative body? Really?
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Adrienne LaFrance and are not impressed. “The world’s greatest deliberative body? Really? The Senate was never destined to shroud itself in glory during the president’s impeachment trial.” 21d
Bernie Can’t Win
David Frum - The Atlantic 21d 23 tweets
But unless other Democrats take a page from his book—stressing the practical over the theoretical, the universal over the particular—they won’t prevail either.
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Adrienne LaFrance “Sanders is a Marxist of the old school of dialectical materialism, from the land that time forgot. Class relations are foundational; everything else is epiphenomenal.” 21d
The Responsibility to Counter China’s Ambitions Falls to Us
The Atlantic 22d 1 tweets
The American inheritance and the American promise are both precious and precarious. If we don’t defend them vigorously, no one else will.
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Adrienne LaFrance "American leaders have failed to appreciate the magnitude of the threat posed by China’s renaissance." This is an important essay by . Please make time for it. 22d
Why Journalists Believe Mary Louise Kelly
Graeme Wood - The Atlantic 23d 3 tweets
Mike Pompeo’s dig about not finding Ukraine on a map undermines his credibility.
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Adrienne LaFrance I remain astonished by this entire episode. Must-read 22d
Hillary Clinton: Mark Zuckerberg Is ‘Trumpian’ and ‘Authoritarian’
Adrienne LaFrance - The Atlantic 22d 9 tweets
Facebook has traded moral accountability for commercial gain, the former secretary of state tells The Atlantic.
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Adrienne LaFrance Today told me she sees Mark Zuckerberg's attitude toward disinformation on Facebook as "Trumpian" and "authoritarian." She says reasoning with Facebook is like "negotiating with a foreign power." 22d
Obama’s 2016 Warning: Trump Is a ‘Fascist’
The Atlantic 22d 10 tweets
The newly revealed comment is one of the former president’s strongest known critiques of his successor.
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Adrienne LaFrance In 2016, called and said this of , according to Kaine: “You’ve got to keep a fascist out of the White House.” 22d
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Adrienne LaFrance This weekend, as was reporting this account of Obama calling Trump a “fascist,” twice asked if Trump is a fascist. Her reply: “you see a lot of...nationalistic, fascistic kinds of tendencies and behaviors.” 22d
Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
The Atlantic 182d 29 tweets
He understands men in America better than most people. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
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Adrienne LaFrance In case you’re wondering why so many people have strong opinions about supporting , read this 24d
The Risk of ‘Getting Bangs’
The Atlantic 24d 1 tweets
When a woman picks up a pair of scissors, she also picks up a trope.
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Adrienne LaFrance “This may have been stupid, but it wasn’t irrational. I reasoned it would be a kindness to sport an ugly haircut while I was dumping someone. ’Now you don’t have to pretend to like my haircut!’ I announced.” 24d