The Atlantic Magazine - April 2024
The Atlantic Magazine - April 2024
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In this issue
The End of the Golden Age
Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to end an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish.
By Franklin Foer
After the Miracle
Cystic fibrosis once guaranteed an early death—but a medical breakthrough has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?
By Sarah Zhang
Saint Dismas
Carlito held one end of the rope, Omar the other.
10+ mins
Why Do Animals Play?
Scientists want an evolutionary explanation. But maybe the answer is simply: Its fun.
8 mins
The Insider
Is Kara Swisher tearing down tech billionaires—or burnishing their legends?
10 mins
A Bloody Retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’ classic.
9 mins
THE SECRET GOSPEL
A Columbia history professor claimed that he discovered a sacred text with shocking details about the life of Jesus. Was it real?
10+ mins
AFTER THE MIRACLE
Cystic fibrosis once guaranteed an early deathbut a medical breakthrough has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?
10+ mins
JODIE FOSTER'S LIFE ON-SCREEN
SINCE CHILDHOOD, SHE'S STRUGGLED WITH ONE QUESTION: HOW MUCH DOES SHE WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW HER?
10+ mins
THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE
ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT THREATENS TO END AN UNPRECEDENTED PERIOD OF SAFETY AND PROSPERITY FOR JEWISH AMERICANS-AND DEMOLISH THE LIBERAL ORDER THEY HELPED ESTABLISH.
10+ mins
The Radio Squirrels of Point Reyes
\"Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.\" With that, in January 1997, the French Coast Guard transmitted its final message in Morse code.
2 mins
THE GRUMPY ECONOMY
Why Americans trust feelings more than facts when it comes to prosperity
9 mins
American Cowardice
Scot Peterson, condemned as the "Coward of Broward," stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Does the blame lie with him, his training or a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings?
10+ mins
Raina Telgemeier Gets It
The wildly successful cartoonist turned the anxious kid into a hero.
6 mins
How Marilynne Robinson Reads Scripture
In her hands, the Book of Genesis becomes a precursor to the novel.
10 mins
The Disorienting Beauty of "Africa & Byzantium"
A landmark exhibition offers a new history of art.
10+ mins
Shelf Life
An incisive satirist of literary Brooklyn takes on the American big-box store.
10 mins
The James Bond Trap
Ian Fleming created the superspy and then couldn't get rid of him.
5 mins
Lost Photographs of Black America
Ernest Cole was born in 1940 to a Black family in the Eersterust township, near Pretoria, South Africa.
2 mins
THE DESPOTS OF SILICON VALLEY
The tech world has its own ascendant political ideology, and it's past time we call it what it is.
10+ mins
The Curious Case of the Contested Basquiats
Twenty-five \"masterpieces,\" an FBI raid, and the maddening, sometimes impossible task of rooting out fakes and forgeries
10+ mins
IN DEFENSE OF WOODROW WILSON
Despised as a racist by today's left and a tyrant by today's right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack.
10+ mins
Meet Me in the Eternal City
Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in?
10+ mins
The Radical Self-Awareness of Michael R. Jackson
He's become one of the most surprising and incisive-and misunderstood-social critics of our time.
10+ mins
A Plan to Outlaw Abortion Everywhere
The year 2022 was a triumphant one for the anti-abortion movement. After half a century, the Supreme Court did what had once seemed impossible when it overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping Americans of the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
3 mins
A Military Loyal to Trump
If Donald Trump wins the next election, he will attempt to turn the men and women of the United States armed forces into praetorians loyal not to the Constitution, but only to him. This project will likely be among his administration's highest priorities. It will not be easy: The overwhelming majority of America's service people are professionals and patriots. I know this from teaching senior officers for 25 years at the Naval War College. As president, Trump came to understand it too, when he found that "his generals” were not, in fact, mere employees of a Trump property.
8 mins
When Science Becomes a Slogan
The president of the United States cannot control the trajectory of a hurricane, but he can we learned in 2019-force the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to endorse a trajectory that he invented.
4 mins
America Will Abandon NATO
"I don't give a shit about NATO." Thus did former President Donald Trump once express his feelings about America's oldest and strongest military alliance. Not that this statement, made in the presence of John Bolton, the national security adviser at the time, came as a surprise.
6 mins
Climate Denial Will Flourish
On the last Saturday before Donald Trump took office, in January 2017, I watched the controlled chaos of a hackathon unfold in a library at the University of Pennsylvania.
3 mins
What Does the Working Class Really Want?
Vying for the support of a multiracial working-class coalition, neither Democrats nor Republicans are focusing on the crucial question.
10+ mins
The Demise of the "IBM Way"
The companys peculiar culture fueled its success, and eventually its fall from industry dominance.
10+ mins
Zombie History Stalks Ukraine
In a haunted novel, memories of a brutal past transform bodies as well as psyches.
10+ mins
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