RFK Jr. as Bellweather

[ad_1] RRobert F. Kennedy Jr.– the irony of a messy biography. He is an anti-aristocratic traitor whose last name is the best in politics. Once Barak Obama feared left-wing extremism when considering him for a Cabinet post in 2008. He has now been tapped to lead a key department in a right-wing administration. Kennedy, a …

The 10 Best Books of 2024

[ad_1] For three years running, while considering which books will make up our Atlantic 10 list, we have asked ourselves the same basic questions: Which stories this year brought unexpected clarity to the subjects that most confounded our understanding? Which of them opened up new, enlivening ways of thinking about things we only thought we …

Ayad Akhtar: McNeal – The Atlantic

[ad_1] Foreword By Jeremy Strong In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world. Soon after, a software developer asked it to provide instructions for removing a peanut-butter sandwich from a VCR, and to write these instructions in the style of the King James Bible. ChatGPT complied: “And the Lord said, ‘Verily I say unto …

Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2024: Day 4

[ad_1] NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon, MH Wong, J. DePasquale Day 4 of the Space Telescope’s Advent Calendar 2024: Distinctive clusters of storms are visible across Jupiter’s northern low latitudes, forming a “vortex road,” as some planetary astronomers call it, when More recently, Hubble has observed the wave patterns of overlapping cyclones and anticyclones. which …

Comfort in Trump’s new era

[ad_1] Updated at 8:00 PM ET on December 4, 2024. This morning I have an uneasy feeling. I was invited to join MSNBC’s. Morning Joe To talk from a studio in Washington, D.C., about an article I wrote about Trump’s approach to foreign policy. Before entering this article I was asked about Pete Hegseth’s nomination …