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Having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated, Paul Bloom wrote in 2021. 📸: Christopher Anderson / Magnum

Having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated, Paul Bloom wrote in 2021. 📸: Christopher Anderson / Magnum

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“Trailing parents”—moms and dads who follow their kids to college—have become more common in the past few years, but they risk depriving their kids of the “gift of separation” and independence, Russell Shaw argued in 2025. 📸: Jon Lovette / Getty

“Trailing parents”—moms and dads who follow their kids to college—have become more common in the past few years, but they risk depriving their kids of the “gift of separation” and independence, Russell Shaw argued in 2025. 📸: Jon Lovette / Getty

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The Boeing 747, the onetime queen of the sky, has begun its final descent. Ian Bogost spoke with former 747 pilots and flight attendants, and visited an aircraft boneyard in Arizona, to eulogize the plane and its brand of American ambition.

The Boeing 747, the onetime queen of the sky, has begun its final descent. Ian Bogost spoke with former 747 pilots and flight attendants, and visited an aircraft boneyard in Arizona, to eulogize the plane and its brand of American ambition.

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Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels, Rose Horowitch reports. The advent of reading “altered people’s consciousness and politics, along with the intellectual feats they were capable of,” she argues—and the reading collapse will bring about changes of the same magnitude: 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Dial Press.

Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels, Rose Horowitch reports. The advent of reading “altered people’s consciousness and politics, along with the intellectual feats they were capable of,” she argues—and the reading collapse will bring about changes of the same magnitude: 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Dial Press.

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During his Super Bowl performance, Bad Bunny, through affect alone, “got across a sense of betrayal that many Puerto Ricans of his age—commonly called the ‘crisis generation’—have spoken of feeling,” Spencer Kornhaber writes.

During his Super Bowl performance, Bad Bunny, through affect alone, “got across a sense of betrayal that many Puerto Ricans of his age—commonly called the ‘crisis generation’—have spoken of feeling,” Spencer Kornhaber writes.

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Bad Bunny performs almost exclusively in Spanish. Spencer Kornhaber on why that hasn’t stopped him from dominating pop in the U.S. and abroad:

Bad Bunny performs almost exclusively in Spanish. Spencer Kornhaber on why that hasn’t stopped him from dominating pop in the U.S. and abroad:

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Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues. 📸: Jack Califano for The Atlantic

Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues. 📸: Jack Califano for The Atlantic

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Throughout the new documentary “Melania,” the camera seems desperate to find action. Sophie Gilbert on what the film actually reveals:

Throughout the new documentary “Melania,” the camera seems desperate to find action. Sophie Gilbert on what the film actually reveals:

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“The modern attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word,” Rose Horowitch reports. “Now professors are finding that they can’t even get students—film students—to sit through movies”: Read the full story here:

“The modern attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word,” Rose Horowitch reports. “Now professors are finding that they can’t even get students—film students—to sit through movies”: Read the full story here:

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The Trump administration's “war on empathy,” Hillary Clinton writes, “threatens to pave the way for an extreme vision of Christian nationalism that seeks to replace democracy with theocracy in America”:

The Trump administration's “war on empathy,” Hillary Clinton writes, “threatens to pave the way for an extreme vision of Christian nationalism that seeks to replace democracy with theocracy in America”:

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Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush, does an impression of Donald Trump at #TAF26, in response to the president calling him a “stone cold loser.”
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Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush, does an impression of Donald Trump at #TAF26, in response to the president calling him a “stone cold loser.”

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Senator Mark Kelly tells Mark Leibovich about his reaction after Representative Thomas Massie introduced articles to impeach Pete Hegseth. “The real ironic thing,” Kelly says, “is six of those eight articles are about Pete Hegseth following illegal orders from the president.” #TAF26
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Senator Mark Kelly tells Mark Leibovich about his reaction after Representative Thomas Massie introduced articles to impeach Pete Hegseth. “The real ironic thing,” Kelly says, “is six of those eight articles are about Pete Hegseth following illegal orders from the president.” #TAF26

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.Maggie Haberman predicts that the Trump administration will resist oversight from a potential Democratic Congress: “This is not going to look like any kind of congressional flip that we’ve seen before in a lame-duck presidency, in terms of oversight.” #TAF26
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.Maggie Haberman predicts that the Trump administration will resist oversight from a potential Democratic Congress: “This is not going to look like any kind of congressional flip that we’ve seen before in a lame-duck presidency, in terms of oversight.” #TAF26

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Speaking about a scene on “East of Eden” in which her character performs a self-induced abortion, Florence Pugh says, “In the book, it literally is over in five lines—and not only as an actor but as a woman, I can’t allow for a woman to be seen on-screen going through something like that and not giving her a chance for us to understand why.” #TAF26
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Speaking about a scene on “East of Eden” in which her character performs a self-induced abortion, Florence Pugh says, “In the book, it literally is over in five lines—and not only as an actor but as a woman, I can’t allow for a woman to be seen on-screen going through something like that and not giving her a chance for us to understand why.” #TAF26

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Speaking about John Steinbeck’s character Cathy Ames in “East of Eden,” zoe kazan says, “I think that if we think of the people who do terrible things as being inherently evil and therefore different from us, we don’t learn anything about ourselves.” #TAF26
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Speaking about John Steinbeck’s character Cathy Ames in “East of Eden,” zoe kazan says, “I think that if we think of the people who do terrible things as being inherently evil and therefore different from us, we don’t learn anything about ourselves.” #TAF26

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“I do think there’s something really empowering about seeing a woman scream in the face of her destiny,” Florence Pugh says at #TAF26. “And to be able to get to do that in my lifetime, acting it, just in case I don’t do that in my actual lifetime, is also really cool.”
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“I do think there’s something really empowering about seeing a woman scream in the face of her destiny,” Florence Pugh says at #TAF26. “And to be able to get to do that in my lifetime, acting it, just in case I don’t do that in my actual lifetime, is also really cool.”

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Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the September 11 attacks. In 2021, Jennifer Senior wrote about grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the decades since 9/11. Revisit the Pulitzer Prize–winning story:
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Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the September 11 attacks. In 2021, Jennifer Senior wrote about grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the decades since 9/11. Revisit the Pulitzer Prize–winning story:

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.Lina Khan tells Charlie Warzel that AI leaders are warning of their products’ potentially catastrophic effects while preparing to take their companies public. If that behavior were applied “to every other industry, we would think that was ludicrous,” she says. #TAF26
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.Lina Khan tells Charlie Warzel that AI leaders are warning of their products’ potentially catastrophic effects while preparing to take their companies public. If that behavior were applied “to every other industry, we would think that was ludicrous,” she says. #TAF26

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.Rahm Emanuel tells Ashley Parker that if Democrats want to pass policy, they need to focus on flipping red districts. “I’m not impressed taking a blue district and making it midnight blue,” he says. #TAF26
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.Rahm Emanuel tells Ashley Parker that if Democrats want to pass policy, they need to focus on flipping red districts. “I’m not impressed taking a blue district and making it midnight blue,” he says. #TAF26

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.Maggie Haberman tells Tim Alberta she doesn’t think Donald Trump will try for a third term: “I don’t actually think he wants that—and he doesn’t need it.” #TAF26
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.Maggie Haberman tells Tim Alberta she doesn’t think Donald Trump will try for a third term: “I don’t actually think he wants that—and he doesn’t need it.” #TAF26

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AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, Lina Khan tells Charlie Warzel: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.” #TAF26
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AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, Lina Khan tells Charlie Warzel: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.” #TAF26

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.Maggie Haberman tells Tim Alberta that she doesn’t think Donald Trump will try for a third term: “I don’t actually think he wants that—and he doesn’t need it.” #TAF26
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.Maggie Haberman tells Tim Alberta that she doesn’t think Donald Trump will try for a third term: “I don’t actually think he wants that—and he doesn’t need it.” #TAF26

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.Colin Kaepernick says some fellow NFL players “wanted to be out there protesting and they wanted to be supportive,” yet feared retaliation from their organizations. “This isn't a one-player or one-team thing. This was across the NFL,” he tells Jemele Hill. #TAF26
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.Colin Kaepernick says some fellow NFL players “wanted to be out there protesting and they wanted to be supportive,” yet feared retaliation from their organizations. “This isn't a one-player or one-team thing. This was across the NFL,” he tells Jemele Hill. #TAF26

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“Addressing the issue of police killing Black people wasn’t comfortable, and in many ways, people felt like they were being indicted as part of that,” Colin Kaepernick tells Jemele Hill at #TAF26. But “we all collectively get to make a moral decision of whether or not we take action.”
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“Addressing the issue of police killing Black people wasn’t comfortable, and in many ways, people felt like they were being indicted as part of that,” Colin Kaepernick tells Jemele Hill at #TAF26. But “we all collectively get to make a moral decision of whether or not we take action.”

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It took a team of skilled tailors and travel across three continents to create a bespoke suit that would transform Gary Shteyngart. Watch his lifetime of fashion misery come to an end: (From 2025)
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It took a team of skilled tailors and travel across three continents to create a bespoke suit that would transform Gary Shteyngart. Watch his lifetime of fashion misery come to an end: (From 2025)

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“The answer is I might,” Senator Mark Kelly tells @markleibovich when asked if he plans to run for president in 2028, adding that he’s “not going to decide” until after the midterms. #TAF26:
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“The answer is I might,” Senator Mark Kelly tells @markleibovich when asked if he plans to run for president in 2028, adding that he’s “not going to decide” until after the midterms. #TAF26:

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The House impeached Trump after the January 6 insurrection but the Senate didn’t convict. Meanwhile Trump had "the audacity to release convicted felons who assaulted police officers out of prison,” Senator Mark Kelly says at #TAF26.
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The House impeached Trump after the January 6 insurrection but the Senate didn’t convict. Meanwhile Trump had "the audacity to release convicted felons who assaulted police officers out of prison,” Senator Mark Kelly says at #TAF26.

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“I did think there would be more players because of the conversations that I had had prior and had seen happening,” Colin Kaepernick tells Jemele Hill of some NFL players' hesitancy to support his protest. “I thought more players would be willing to take action that way.” #TAF26
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“I did think there would be more players because of the conversations that I had had prior and had seen happening,” Colin Kaepernick tells Jemele Hill of some NFL players' hesitancy to support his protest. “I thought more players would be willing to take action that way.” #TAF26

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“This idea that it’s somehow beyond our power to use what is probably the single most elegant feature of the Constitution—which is its capacity to be amended—is a complete failure of ambition and imagination,” Pete Buttigieg tells @jeffreygoldberg. #TAF26
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“This idea that it’s somehow beyond our power to use what is probably the single most elegant feature of the Constitution—which is its capacity to be amended—is a complete failure of ambition and imagination,” Pete Buttigieg tells @jeffreygoldberg. #TAF26

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Politics would be improved by more in-person interactions, Pete Buttigieg tells @jeffreygoldberg: “Most people in an actual kind of 3-D interaction aren’t assholes, right? Very different from how it is online.” #TAF26
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Politics would be improved by more in-person interactions, Pete Buttigieg tells @jeffreygoldberg: “Most people in an actual kind of 3-D interaction aren’t assholes, right? Very different from how it is online.” #TAF26

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