Month: January 2025

Trump must decide between “a humiliating strategic defeat on the global stage and immediately redoubling American support for Ukraine. The choice will determine not only the fate of Ukraine but also the success of his presidency,” Robert Kagan writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-war/681228/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZIUu_s7CoRjld3UaectAVw&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

America has entered a new political era: the Trump Reaction. George Packer on what comes next, and the two Democratic delusions that brought us here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/trump-reelection-voter-demographic-change/680752/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYcbaAryNMJfrdfv13_osw4Y&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

How did evangelicals, once culturally confident, become an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory? @mjgerson reports

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/the-last-temptation/554066/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTdTHQ6GMRNbLyZvDHPOR-w&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Why do Donald Trump and his acolytes heap such reverent praise on Vladimir Putin? The answer might be more straightforward than people usually think, writes @FranklinFoer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/jacob-heilbrunn-america-last-trump-putin/677609/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYXGBhW7vfEe0x_JMogTFrM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

It’s never felt more plausible that the age of social media might end—and soon, @ibogost writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYedsdkEnQfrxavzY9cAcxPI&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social