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Best of How To: Identify What You Enjoy
Arthur C. Brooks and Lori Gottlieb discuss the importance of fun, the cultural distortion of emotions as “good” or “bad,” and how envy can point you in the direction of your deepest desires.
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Each week, a new idea. Hosted by Hanna Rosin.
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It’s Already Different
Trump’s first-day executive orders would have prompted mass outrage had he attempted them in 2017. Today, the response is more muted.
A Horrifying True Story, Told Through Mundane Details
I’m Still Here tempts viewers into a comforting lull before pulling the rug out from under them.
There’s a New Language Sheriff in Town
Whether renaming the “Gulf of America” or issuing edicts on gender, Trump is enforcing his own brand of political correctness.
The Trump Faithful Return to D.C.
This past weekend, a pro-Trump throng arrived in Washington not in protest, but in triumph.
Did He Actually Do That?
Elon Musk either had a slipped-mask moment or is supremely awkward.
Republican Leaders Once Thought January 6 Was ‘Tragic’
Republicans used to denounce the violent insurrectionists of January 6. Their rhetoric is no longer operative.
How the Village People Explain Trump
Showing off his new big tent, the returning president played circus master to a strange kind of union.
The Tech Oligarchy Arrives
Donald Trump’s inauguration signaled a new alliance—for now—with some of the world’s wealthiest men.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Billions of People in the Palm of Trump’s Hand
Today leaders of the world’s largest technology platforms kissed the president’s ring.
Morry Gash / AP The Gilded Age of Trump Begins Now
His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent presidency.
Carrie Schreck / Redux ‘If There’s One Person Who Keeps Their Word, It’s Donald Trump’
At Trump’s last rally before returning to the White House, an ecstatic audience anticipated a historic presidency.
Kevin Dietsch / Getty Michelle Doesn’t Want to Go to Barack’s Work Thing
And that’s her right.
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Jason Andrew / The New York Times / Redux Republican Leaders Once Thought January 6 Was ‘Tragic’
Republicans used to denounce the violent insurrectionists of January 6. Their rhetoric is no longer operative.
Shawn Thew / Getty The Tech Oligarchy Arrives
Donald Trump’s inauguration signaled a new alliance—for now—with some of the world’s wealthiest men.
Kevin Lamarque / AFP / Getty How Donald Trump Got Ready for His Close-Up
The inaugural festivities placed the president’s flair for stagecraft on full display.
Illustration by The Atlantic America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet
How the United States learned to love internet censorship
