Top recent posts by The Atlantic Writers Community on Bluesky

New pod: This is the worst housing market for first-time homebuyers in modern history. How we got here, what's happening now—prices falling in the south, rising in the north, and what comes next, with @conorsen.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza - Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Emil Bove's "path so far has demonstrated that total sycophancy to the president can be a fantastic career move for ambitious lawyers—especially those for whom other avenues of success might not be forthcoming." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Smart stuff on Sydney Sweeney and how online discourse works (or ... doesn't) by @cwarzel.bsky.social

“When women realized they couldn’t rely on the men in their life, they tried instead to rely on other women,” @faith-hill.bsky.social @theatlantic.com writes. “In the end, misogyny got in the way of that too.” www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

This is tonight, wow. DC people, you’re in for the best night of your entire life

"The arc of the American moral universe...has been warped by the competing pressure of a social-justice movement that has grown impatient with the liberal project, and a reactionary populism that both feeds off and weaponizes that impatience." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I have an adapted excerpt of my new book Summer of Our Discontent (out Aug. 5) in @theatlantic.com today. It's about the blindness of "moral clarity" and the push and pull of self-righteous lawlessness between the illiberal left and right: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...