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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

How Capitalism Went Off the Rails

Easy money destroyed the basis for productive, competitive markets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/opinion/capitalism-inflation.html?smid=em-share

Ruchir Sharma’s new book reveals the ill effects from the government’s cheap-money policies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/19/sharma-what-went-wrong-capitalism/

Political Scientists Want to Know Why We Hate One Another This Much

What does the rise of partisan sectarians portend for the rest of us?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/opinion/democracy-partisanship-political-hatred.html?smid=em-share

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/federal-writers-project/617790/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

British editors are suddenly leading several U.S. publications. Can it last?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/american-newspapers-british-editors/678719/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social