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I don’t think I’ve ever felt less patriotic than when I’m listening to a Trump surrogate advocating for tariffs

"The jobs that we lost to China 20 years ago: We’re not getting those back," Autor says. "China doesn’t even want those jobs anymore. They are losing them to Vietnam, and they aren’t upset about it."

This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Very fun piece from the great @vickiturk.bsky.social—as chatbot-written text floods the web, how will it affect human communication? "As AI tools become more commonplace, people may see their style as the template to follow, resulting in a greater homogenization of language"

"Trump’s first 100 days have set the country on an unsustainable course. The clash between the president’s determination to rule and his inability to govern has generated two opposing forces: a weaponized, illiberal state, and a smoldering political backlash." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"Trump's Carter-esque record as legislator and economic steward stands in stark contrast to his Lenin-esque record in stamping out opposition. For the president’s ruling claque, the effect is a triumph. For nearly everybody else, it portends ruin." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"To believe in free speech means that you support the cause even when the speech in question is repugnant to you. In a perverse way, you almost run to those cases; it’s how you keep clean accounts with yourself." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Proving himself to be the single best employee of Columbia University since Lionel Trilling clapped his erasers a final time and went home for good, Torres said, 'What the hell is going on? Put it back. What are you doing?'" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I think the White House is onto something here and they should definitely keep talking as loudly and often as possible about how no one should talk about tariff-driven price hikes on ordinary consumer goods.

recently got some nice news — my magazine story about a cystic fibrosis breakthrough won first place for consumer feature in AHCJ's journalism awards www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

New pod: IS THIS THE CHINESE CENTURY? That's the question I asked China experts Rush Doshi and Kurt Campbell on today's show. "The Chinese cannot believe what we are doing," they said: The Trump admin is like a CCP fantasy of accelerated American self-destruction. open.spotify.com/episode/3YB8...

"Democracy, under the sway of lies, becomes a form of anarchy": Megan Garber @theatlantic.com on how Walter Lippmann's "Public Opinion," published a century ago, foresaw our current politics. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Girl on Girl is out today! And got the review of my literal dreams from the Washington Post—I am truly a bit emotional at someone seeing what I was trying to do with the book so clearly. wapo.st/3ECIW0t

Megan Garber + Walter Lippmann = immediate click www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

I confess my Danish is not up to snuff but I enjoyed this conversation with Dagbladet Information www.information.dk/udland/2025/...

Thanks to @ajkeen.bsky.social for this great conversation about THE PROJECT and Project 2025

I really appreciated this detailed conversation with @andrew-yang.bsky.social — yes, THE Andrew Yang blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-project

Join us this afternoon as we talk housing

📚💪🏻🤩 Happy publication day to the brilliant, fearless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social, who explains in powerful detail how the culture of the 1990s and early 2000s got us here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738003...

Beginning to seem like the most potent threat Trump has against other world leaders is that if they don’t do what he says, he might publicly endorse them.

Now that his polling is underwater on every issue across the board I’m looking forward to seeing what the fallback position is for the Sensible Centrists whose argument was, “You shouldn’t oppose him on this, he’s got public opinion on his side!” (My money is on “OK, oppose him, but Not Like That.”)

@ashleyrparker.bsky.social: Trump’s appointees often appear to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs rather than actually doing them:

"Trump’s main goal, it seemed, was to convince us that he has placed his presidency in service of the nation and of humanity. (A subsidiary goal was to ask us if we thought he should hang a chandelier in the Oval Office. The Atlantic takes no position on that matter.)"

@ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social: “A fragile combination of decades-old laws, norms, and jungly bureaucracy has so far prevented repositories such as these from assembling into a centralized American surveillance state. But that appears to be changing.”

🚨 New from The Atlantic... Now you can read an extended version of the @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social, @michaelscherer.bsky.social interview with Donald Trump: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

We did it.

Here's @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social's editor's note from our next issue—on Signalgate, his big Trump interview (alongside @ashleyrparker.bsky.social & @michaelscherer.bsky.social), and what it means to choose "steadfastness over cowardice" in an age of autocracy: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The 35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope - 12 amazing recent images from Hubble, which first reached orbit in April of 1990, and has since made nearly 1.7 million observations, according to NASA. theatln.tc/BH8ekA9y

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope still has the power to astonish - grateful to @kokogiak.bsky.social for putting its recent gems all in one place for us to peruse: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...

IT'S THIGH TIME FOR CHICKEN

What does Elon Musk actually want with all that federal data? @ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social went deep on the possibilities: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...