Month: June 2024

The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/successs-late-bloomers-motivation/678798/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/tariffs-free-trade-dead/678417/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Capturing reality is harder than it seems.

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/06/how-to-keep-watch/678554/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

How will they interpret the past?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/gen-z-handwriting-teaching-cursive-history/671246/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places

Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/opinion/trump-business-capitalism-democracy.html?smid=em-share

Is the Partisan Divide Too Big to Be Bridged?

From the urban and rural divide to the partisan gulf, from religious groups to warring factions on campuses, organizations and funders are cropping up with hope for common ground.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/politics/national-divisions.html?smid=em-share