The Atlanticflipped into All StoriesNowThe Atlantic Tops 1 Million Subscriptions and Reaches Profitabilityverified_publisherThe AtlanticThe Atlantic now has more than 1 million subscriptions and is profitable, surpassing two goals that the company set several years ago. In an email to The Atlantic’s staff, quoted in part below, Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg and CEO Nicholas Thompson announce this news. Overall revenue is up more …
The Atlanticflipped into ScienceNowToo Few Americans Are Eating a Remarkable Fruitverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Zoë SchlangerBreadfruit is a staple in tropical places—and climate change is pushing its range north. Someplace in the lush backroads of San Sebastián, in western Puerto Rico, my friend Carina pulled the car over. At a crest in the road stood a breadfruit tree, full of basketball-size, lime-green fruits, …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories3 hours agoThe Patron Saint of Political Violenceverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Gal BeckermanDoes Frantz Fanon have anything to teach us today? Some ideas exist so far beyond one’s own moral boundaries that to hear them articulated out loud, unabashedly, is to experience something akin to awe. That’s how I felt, anyway, when I watched the video of a Cornell professor speaking at a rally a …
The Atlanticflipped into Politics4 hours agoTrump Media Is the New Bed Bath & Beyondverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By James SurowieckiDonald Trump gets into the meme-stock business. After the stock-market frenzy that ensued when Trump Media & Technology Group started trading on Tuesday (under the ticker symbol DJT), one thing is almost certainly true: Donald Trump is now the chairman of the most overvalued company on Nasdaq. Trump …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories4 hours agoMiddle Names Reveal More Than You Thinkverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Michael WatersThey’re our most benign yet unexpectedly intimate secrets. In 2011, demographic researchers across America realized something surprising: Census forms had a lot of spots left blank. When one person fills it out for the whole household, they might skip certain sections—especially the middle-name …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories4 hours agoU.S. Support for Israel’s War Has Become Indefensibleverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Phil KlayA good pretext for war is not enough to make a war just. “This is our 9/11,” an Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson said a few days after the rape, torture, kidnapping, and mass murder of Israelis on October 7. Or it was worse than 9/11. “Twenty 9/11s,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said …