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Six Weekend Stories – The Atlantic

Six Weekend Stories – The Atlantic

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Spend time with six reads about Carl Jung’s five pillars of a good life, an infamous escape artist, Donald Trump’s right-hand man, and more. Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life The great Swiss psychoanalyst left us a surprisingly practical guide to being happier. By Arthur C. Brooks The Escape Artist West Virginia frat boy, hippie expatriate, big-time drug dealer, prison escapee, millionaire mortgage broker—Jim Sargent was many things before he arrived in the idyllic Hawaiian town of Hawi and established himself as a civic leader. But it was only a matter of time before his troubled past would catch up with him. (From 2014) By John Wolfson Trump’s Right-Hand Troll Stephen Miller once tormented liberals at Duke. Now the president’s speechwriter and immigration enforcer is deploying the art of provocation from the White House. (From 2018) By McKay …

Peter Mendelsund: ‘Weepers’ – The Atlantic

Peter Mendelsund: ‘Weepers’ – The Atlantic

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You can see the buttes and mesas easily—see them from the road. But to see them in all their glory, you have to walk a ways off the asphalt. That’s true for the rest of it as well: the dried riverbeds, gullies, hoodoos, and hogbacks. The sky you can see from anywhere, but go farther into the land and it becomes bluer, deeper, and the whole shebang becomes just stupidly scenic, like something a cartoon roadrunner would paint to outwit a cartoon coyote. Meaning death might lurk behind every vista. Explore the July 2025 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More My father and I used to go out there together. The “together” being a concession to my mother, a concession granted bitterly and retributed upon me in various ways. He would hunt. Desert mule deer, mostly. He didn’t say much to me on those trips. No life lessons. It was mostly us tramping around, him shooting, animals dropping, me bearing dumb witness. Out among arroyos, …

Why Israel Struck Now – The Atlantic

Why Israel Struck Now – The Atlantic

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Smoke is still billowing from sites across Iran, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel just made a speech, in English, warning that Israel would keep attacking for “as many days as it takes” to eliminate the Iranian nuclear program. So far the catalog of damage is mostly rumor—tantalizing rumor, for Iran’s enemies, but rumor nonetheless. Netanyahu says Israel targeted facilities for making nuclear fuel, facilities for assembling fuel into bombs, and facilities for building rockets to deliver those bombs and other conventional payloads. He also said something Israel has so far not admitted publicly: that it assassinated key nuclear and military personnel inside Iran. Some of the smoke is billowing from high-rises in Tehran, where one is unlikely to find enrichment centrifuges but might find a scientist or general in his pajamas. Iran has announced the death of the head of its Revolutionary Guards Corps, its most loyal and elite military unit, and of prominent nuclear scientists. Israel has additionally claimed the death of the chief of staff of the entire Iranian military. Israel …

Israel’s Bold, Risky Attack – The Atlantic

Israel’s Bold, Risky Attack – The Atlantic

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At the end of the classic 1972 film The Godfather, the new don of the family, Michael Corleone, attends a baptism while his men wipe out the heads of the other New York mafia families—all of them Michael’s enemies, and all intending one day to do him harm. Rather than wait for their eventual attacks, Michael dispatched them himself. “Today, I settled all family business,” Michael says to his traitorous brother-in-law, before having him killed. Tonight, the Israelis launched a broad, sweeping attack on Iran that seems like an attempt to settle, so to speak, all family business. The Israeli government has characterized this offensive as a “preemptive” strike on Iran: “We are now in a strategic window of opportunity and close to a point of no return, and we had no choice but to take action,” an Israeli military official told reporters. Israeli spokespeople suggest that these attacks, named Operation Rising Lion, could go on for weeks. But calling this a “preemptive” strike is questionable. The Israelis, from what we know so far, are …

Trump vs. California – The Atlantic

Trump vs. California – The Atlantic

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Under Donald Trump, the federal government is like a bad parent: never there when you need him but eager to stick his nose in your business when you don’t want him to. The relationship between Trump and California has always been bad, but the past few days represent a new low. On Friday, CNN reported that the White House was seeking to cut off as much federal funding to the Golden State as possible, especially to state universities. That afternoon, protests broke out in Los Angeles as ICE agents sought to make arrests. By Saturday, Trump had announced that he was federalizing members of the National Guard and deploying them to L.A., over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat. Americans have seen the National Guard called out to deal with the aftermath of riots in the past, …

Trump’s Amplifier Administration – The Atlantic

Trump’s Amplifier Administration – The Atlantic

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In Donald Trump’s first administration, he was surrounded by buffers and filters—but in his second, he’s surrounded by amplifiers. On a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic, the foreign-affairs columnist Thomas Friedman joins to discuss the chaos of Trump’s conflicts, and how world leaders are viewing the instability. Meanwhile, the end of Donald Trump’s friendship with Elon Musk was never really a question of “if,” but “when.” “Nothing here is modeled, nothing here is stress-tested, everything is a riff,” Friedman said last night. “The country is being run like the Trump organization today, not like the United States of America.” When it comes to Trump and Musk’s feud, “we’re dealing with two extremely unstable characters,” Friedman continues. “But what’s really more important is: What’s the wider world audience saying?” Watch the full episode with Friedman and The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, here. Source link

America the fortress – The Atlantic

America the fortress – The Atlantic

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Past leaders have imagined the United States as a “shining city upon a hill,” a melting pot, a “beacon to the world.” Donald Trump is working toward a different vision: the United States as a fortress. Late Wednesday, the White House announced a new version of the travel bans that it had imposed during Trump’s first term, barring people from 12 countries—Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen—from coming to the U.S., and restricting entry from seven others: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. (The ban has some exceptions.) Shortly after, he issued a proclamation that bars foreign nationals from entering the country to attend Harvard University—though not other universities, for reasons that are not satisfactorily explained but seem to boil down to Trump’s animus toward …

America’s college crisis – The Atlantic

America’s college crisis – The Atlantic

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. College-graduation ceremonies are expressions of joy, but also of relief. As photos are taken, tassels turned, hugs exchanged, the hope is that all of the hard work, and the money, will have been worth it. But many Americans aren’t convinced that it is. Confidence in the institution of higher education has fallen sharply over the past decade, and among political groups, Republicans show the most skepticism. A 2024 Pew Research Center report noted that only one in four Americans says “it’s extremely or very important to have a four-year college degree in order to get a well-paying job in today’s economy.” The fact that finding a job has gotten more difficult for recent graduates hasn’t done much to inspire faith in higher education. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported in late April that the unemployment rate for …

FEMA is not prepared – The Atlantic

FEMA is not prepared – The Atlantic

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Who manages the disaster if the disaster managers are the disaster? That’s a question that the people of the United States may have to answer soon. As hurricane season begins in the U.S., the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in disarray. Reuters reported yesterday that acting FEMA head David Richardson suggested during a meeting with employees that he was unaware of the very existence of a hurricane season. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security dismissed the report: “Despite meanspirited attempts to falsely frame a joke as policy, there is no uncertainty about what FEMA will be doing this Hurricane Season.” The spokesperson added, “FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric dead weight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens.” FEMA employees, and Americans at large, might be forgiven for …

Profit and Power – The Atlantic

Profit and Power – The Atlantic

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Donald Trump’s willingness to mix public office with personal benefit is facing scrutiny, as are his latest pardons. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss how the president may be using his power to profit, and more. Meanwhile, Trump’s battle with Harvard continued this week. Panelists considered how that fight is being received by voters and Republican lawmakers—and whether the president’s continued crackdown on higher education could have political consequences. For Republicans, Trump’s action against Harvard is “not something that they want to break with the president on,” Leigh Ann Caldwell said last night. “This is not an issue that they’re willing to stand in front of him on, like most issues.” Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck; and Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch. Watch the full episode here. Source link