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Russia’s tragedy, Putin’s humiliation – The Atlantic

Russia’s tragedy, Putin’s humiliation – 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. Terrorists struck deep inside Russia on Friday, and the conspiracy theories are already spinning. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Three Realities If you are trying to figure out who attacked a Russian rock concert and why they slaughtered and wounded dozens of people, your confusion is understandable. In an era when social media spews chaff and deception during every crisis, some fairly straightforward issues get obscured in all the drama. As we untangle the ghastly attack just outside of Moscow, bear in mind three realities about politics in Russia. First, some terrorist groups have a long-standing hatred of the Russians, and mass-casualty attacks in Russia’s cities are not new. Americans, scarred by 9/11, often think that they are the prime target of Islamist extremists, but over the past two decades, Russia has endured more mass-casualty …

The joys of chronic rewatching

The joys of chronic rewatching

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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. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Stephanie Bai, an associate editor whose byline you might recognize from past editions of The Daily. Stephanie recently joined The Atlantic’s newsletter team, where she edits and contributes to multiple Atlantic newsletters. Stephanie is a chronic repeat-watcher of TV shows, a reformed Bermuda-shorts wearer, and a onetime aspiring pop star whose dream died quickly on the Kidz Bop website. First, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: The Culture Survey: Stephanie Bai Something I recently revisited: Dreams die on the Kidz Bop website. At least, mine did. During a conversation with a friend recently, I remembered when I once tangoed with delusions of pop-star success. Did it matter that I couldn’t hit a note …

When experts fail – The Atlantic

When experts fail – 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. In 2017, my Daily colleague Tom Nichols wrote a book titled The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters. Three years later, America underwent a crisis that stress-tested citizens’ and political leaders’ faith in experts—with alarming results. The Atlantic published an excerpt today from the second edition of Tom’s book, which includes a new chapter evaluating the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the relationship between experts and the public. I chatted with Tom recently about American narcissism, the mistakes experts have made during the pandemic, and why listening to expert advice is a responsibility of citizens in a democracy. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Narcissism and Distrust Isabel Fattal: Why did you feel it was important after the COVID-19 crisis to rerelease this book? Tom Nichols: The book is …

Is the shorter workweek all it promises to be?

Is the shorter workweek all it promises to be?

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Working fewer hours might not cure all that ails the American worker. Jetta Productions Inc / Getty March 21, 2024, 6:54 PM ET 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. A new bill advocates for a 32-hour workweek. Can this approach cure what ails American workers? First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: A New Norm Last week, Senators Bernie Sanders and Laphonza Butler presented an intriguing idea: making a shorter workweek a national norm. The bill they introduced proposes changing the standard workweek with no loss in pay for certain groups of employees, including many hourly workers, from 40 to 32 hours, at which point overtime pay would kick in. Whether that change sounds quixotic depends on whom you ask. But as Sanders said in a statement: “Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea.” America …

Trump’s dangerous January 6–pardon promise

Trump’s dangerous January 6–pardon promise

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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. Donald Trump’s plan to pardon people in prison for their crimes on January 6—people he now calls “hostages”—is yet another dangerous and un-American attack on the rule of law. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: A Loyal Cadre in Waiting This past weekend, Donald Trump stirred up one of his usual controversies by declaring that there would be a “bloodbath” if he isn’t elected. Trump’s supporters played a game of gotcha with outraged critics by claiming that Trump was merely describing an economic meltdown in the auto industry. Unfortunately, Trump decided, as he so often does, to pull the rug out from under his apologists by defending bloodbath as a common expression and clarifying that he meant it to refer to “getting slaughtered economically, when you’re getting slaughtered socially, when you’re getting slaughtered.” Oh. So much …

How America got scammed – The Atlantic

How America got scammed – 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. People are more susceptible to scams than they may think—and Americans are losing more money to fraud than ever. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Falling for Fraud Americans passed a discomfiting benchmark last year: For the first time, they lost a collective $10 billion to fraud, according to data that the Federal Trade Commission released last month. Taking advantage of social isolation and unmet needs, scammers are using ever more sophisticated methods to tailor their grifts and blanket Americans with requests for money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, and personal information. Scammers often bring up sensitive topics such as romance, immigration, and finances to rile victims into a state of heightened emotion. This simple, devastating approach can make people act less rational than they would otherwise. The schemes can target specific insecurities: For people who are struggling …

Putin’s nuclear theatrics – The Atlantic

Putin’s nuclear theatrics – 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. Last spring, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would station nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. Evidence suggests that this move is imminent, but it is strategically meaningless. First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic: Cold War Games Last week, Foreign Policy reported that Putin was in the process of making good on his announcement from last spring to station Russian nuclear arms in Belarus, thus putting Russia’s nuclear-strike forces that much closer to both Ukraine and NATO. Foreign Policy attributed the news to “Western officials,” but so far, only Lithuania’s defense minister has offered a public confirmation. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed in December that weapons had arrived in his country, but no public evidence confirmed that assertion, and so far, no Western governments or intelligence services have commented on this news. What intelligence analysts are likely …

The smart way to order good wine

The smart way to order good wine

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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. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Charlie Warzel, a staff writer and the author of the Galaxy Brain newsletter. He has reported on the information dystopia embodied by the recent Kate Middleton scandal, last year’s chaos at OpenAI, and his night inside the Sphere, in Las Vegas. Charlie is a semi-lapsed prestige-TV watcher who found his love for the genre reinvigorated by the fifth season of Fargo, which he calls “harrowing, bizarre … totally propulsive.” He’s also a jam-band guy (Goose is his current fascination) and a golf guy who enjoys bingeing YouTube videos of amateur golfers. First, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: The Culture Survey: Charlie Warzel The television show I’m most enjoying right now: I took …