Author: Michelle Korhonen
January 13, 2024, 10:58 AM ETEditor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here.Just days before the Republican caucuses in Iowa officially kick off the presidential nominating process, the GOP field narrowed after former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie exited the race. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, the former president and current front-runner for the Republican nomination, spent the week campaigning in Iowa and appearing in courts in Washington, D.C., and New York City.Joining the editor in chief…
A new long COVID study finds evidence of widespread muscle problems, suggesting biological causes for extreme exhaustion after exercise. (This story first aired on Morning Edition on January 9, 2024.)
This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine.In November 1904, the Norwegian explorer Carl Anton Larsen landed in South Georgia. It was his second visit to the remote island, roughly 1,800 kilometers east of the tip of South America, where the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean were home to huge numbers of whales—and he’d returned with a whaling ship and crew to catch them.Just a few weeks after establishing a camp in Cumberland Bay, a deep, two-pronged fjord in the rugged island, Larsen’s men killed their first humpback. So many whales foraged in the bay that the mariners didn’t…
NPR’s Scott Simon asks Kaiser Family Foundation Vice President Cynthia Cox why 2024 will be another record year for signups on Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges.
Eight years ago, a middle-aged husband and wife in Wisconsin published their first book, Monogamy With Benefits, under pseudonyms. “We couldn’t be more entrenched in the local establishment,” they wrote, noting their jobs as executives at respected organizations and their nonprofit work and appearances on the local news. “So we’re not exactly the kind of couple you’d expect to be engaged in adventurous sex with others. But we have a highly erotic collection of video files on our home computers that proves otherwise.”Just imagine what would happen, they speculated, if they were to post their videos of “the full carnal…
Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.Question of the WeekWhat is a belief or position you hold that you feel to be misunderstood or misrepresented by many people who disagree with you?Send your responses to conor@theatlantic.com or simply reply to this email.Conversations of NoteAs America’s media outlets and social-media users discuss ongoing controversies about diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, there is significant potential for people to talk past one another. DEI is so…
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, concerning his role in the January 6 coup attempt, began on February 9, 2021. Almost exactly three years later, on February 8, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over whether that last, desperate effort to illegally hold on to power might now disqualify Trump from returning to the Oval Office.Many commentators have argued that the nine justices should overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision barring Trump’s candidacy for reasons of prudence alone. “Keeping Mr. Trump off the ballot…
The onset of the Arab Spring can feel like the distant past amid the grim brutality of our current times, but it raises timeless questions. What is the trade-off between courage and safety; idealism and caution; hope for change and fear of it? In hindsight, we can tell a story of how the wave of revolution crested and the undertow of counterrevolution prevailed. Autocrats remained in power. Uprisings turned into simmering civil and sectarian conflicts. Millions of people sought refuge in a West that so often fails to recognize their common humanity. Still those timeless questions haunt Hisham Matar’s riveting…
Taiwan is headed into a close election on Saturday, and China is determined to influence the outcome. Some of Beijing’s tactics are heavy-handed, such as the January 9 threat of sweeping new trade restrictions against Taipei, or the barrage of balloons that drifted over the island beginning last week. Others are by turns sinister and pedestrian—even slightly ridiculous, as might be said of a reported Chinese investigation into a Taiwanese rock group for lip-synching, which authorities on the island charge is politically motivated.China has long made a habit of harassing Taiwan before the island votes, but is not nearly so…
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.The jobs report released last October was a thing of beauty. Over the previous month, the U.S. economy had added 336,000 jobs. It was one of the largest gains of the year and nearly double the amount that most analysts had expected—the kind of numbers that traditionally might occasion some celebratory champagne-popping. Here’s how the press covered it: “Jobs Gains Surge, Troubling News for the Federal Reserve,” read a New York Times headline. “Don’t Get Too Comfortable With a Good Job Market,” warned The Wall Street Journal.…