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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Cristobal Basaure Araya / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty The Goal of Contemporary Journalism
Jeffrey Goldberg, Amna Nawaz, and Joe Kahn discussed how to sustain a free press in an era of public distrust, social-media punditry, and a hostile federal government.
Marc Patrick / BFA The Color Recession May Be Permanent
Consumers are so afraid of getting colors wrong, they don’t use them at all.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic Nick Fuentes’s Strategy Is Working
Viral clips of the far-right white supremacist are growing his audience.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Nicholas J. Fuentes / Rumble. The People Who Marry Chatbots
A growing community is building a life with large language models.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Rage Bait Is a Brilliant Word of the Year
In the free market of language, the most innovative and incisive words win.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic This Is the News From TikTok
When young adults use the social-media outlet to keep up with current events, what kind of information are they getting?
Illustration by Jackson Gibbs The Long Goodbye to College
Any recent graduate will tell you that their head felt heaviest after the cap came off.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: George Marks / Retrofile / Getty. And the Oscar Goes to … Something the Voters Didn’t Watch
The Academy has a new rule to address this problem. Good luck with enforcing that.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Illegal Drug at Every Corner Store
Nitrous oxide is widely available as long as everyone pretends it’s being used for whipped cream. An industry has arisen to exploit that loophole.
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