Apple’s new iPad commercial depicts a range of cherished objects—musical instruments, paint, a sculpture—being pulverized by a hydraulic press. Damon Beres and Charlie Warzel ask: What was the company thinking? theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

In a world that rewards spectacle, how can we really know what’s authentic and true? In a new season of our “How To” podcast, Andrea Valdez and Megan Garber examine how deepfakes, misinformation, and other illusions can affect our perceptions. link.chtbl.com/howto-trailer-…

“Here’s a summary of the major legal cases against Trump, including key dates, an assessment of the gravity of the charges, and expectations about how they could turn out,” David A. Graham reports: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The past few months have shown that modern universities are destabilized when they do not have a clear sense of their priorities, Derek Thompson writes. theatln.tc/QOAHIliO

The question of who’s a better rapper—Drake or Kendrick—has given way to a more profound debate about hip-hop, masculinity, and the nature of evil, writes Spencer Kornhaber: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

'Watson made her home a sanctuary, a place where she, and maybe even he, for a time, could connect to something far better than the segregated country into which they both were born.'

Salamishah Tillet (she/her) on Gordon Parks's greatest subject.

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'The young woman wasn’t calling for a cease-fire or a binational confederation of Palestine and Israel. She was calling for war. Is that anti-Semitic?'

Judith Shulevitz parses the chants.

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Excellent Derek Thompson.
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“It’s tempting to argue that America could reasonably trade everyone’s digital privacy in exchange for keeping kids safe,” Louise Matsakis writes. “But we can look at what has happened in China and see the obvious problem with that logic.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Fear is not what’s driving Americans to support Trump—it is, instead, how many justify their support, Peter Wehner writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

In New York, hostility to outsiders is becoming a matter of policy, Jerusalem wrote in 2023: theatln.tc/vHPmx4mo

The “nudes internet,” Jane Coaston 🏔️ writes, is a space in which every ad, meme, and argument is reduced to sex. Not actual sexual intercourse, but “a world where sex means power and worth, and the goal is to accumulate it, for no reason but to have it.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

bookmark this Yair Rosenberg piece, and consult it the next time you see a headline about a 'ceasefire' being 'accepted' by either side: theatln.tc/ypbufv6n

The faculty members who have been roughed up at recent campus demonstrations weren’t marching with the students so much as watching over them, Ian Bogost writes. This is helicopter protesting, fit for the helicopter-parent generation: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

For years, we’ve understood honeybees to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite significant evidence to the contrary. Ellen Cushing asks: Why? theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

I wrote about why talk of a 15-week abortion ban is misdirection. If elected, Trump would have the tools to enact far stricter policy without Congress: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Why is trust in US institutions—esp colleges—collapsing?

Here’s a theory. The 21st c has became the age of the unfocused institution—the age of mission inflation, goal ambiguity, and complex orgs losing any clear sense of priority, or identity.

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'The ultimate problem isn’t just that too many administrators can make college expensive. It’s that too many administrative functions can make college institutionally incoherent,' Derek Thompson writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

In The Atlantic Daily, Yair Rosenberg lays out four points about the Gaza cease-fire talks that guide his own reporting and help him untangle where things stand: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Commencement speeches are often unremarkable, DrewFaust writes. But perhaps, even in this tumultuous spring, you might encounter a speaker who “can reach across the chasm of innocence and experience separating graduates and the person talking to them.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…