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A Prominent Free-Speech Group Is Fighting for Its Life
In 2015, PEN America, the organization devoted to defending free speech, chose to honor the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at its annual gala. A few months earlier, Islamic extremists had murdered…
Sphere Is the Mind Killer
In Las Vegas last Friday, I watched a Godzilla-sized puppy give a tongue bath to some 18,000 people. The visual—accompanied by laughter, slack jaws, and modest plumes of vaporized weed—arrived roughly three…
Bringing a Social Movement to Life
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Occasionally you read a book that changes your sense of…
AI’s Unending Thirst
The technology is placing growing demands on our environment. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Erik Carter April 26, 2024, 11:57 AM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our…
Trump’s Legal Argument Is a Path to Dictatorship
The notion that Donald Trump’s supporters believe that he should be able to overthrow the government and get away with it sounds like hyperbole, an absurd and uncharitable caricature of conservative thought….
Is India an Autocracy?
Last October, Indian authorities revived legal proceedings against the novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. In a case first registered against her in 2010, Roy stood accused of “provocative speech” that aroused “enmity…
Trump Is Getting What He Wants
At today’s hearing on Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority appeared poised to give him what he most desires in the case: further delays…
How America Lost Sleep
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The Passover Plot
The dark legacy and ongoing body count of an ancient anti-Semitic myth Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. April 25, 2024, 2:38 PM ET This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a…