staff writer @TheAtlantic | author of "American Carnage" (2019) and "The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory" (2023) | perplexed, but not in despair
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Exclusive: Lions broadcaster Dan Miller shares the story of his wife Cindy's two-year battle with cancer and her legacy.
🔗 Read more from @bobwojnowski detne.ws/47M3DBY
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The Miller family asks that in lieu of flowers you can make a donation to the Leptomeningeal Cancer Foundation.
Do so here:
lmcancer.org/donate/
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Read this awesome interview I did with Columbia Journalism Review’s @ivannagy about my reporting: “People are more important than the lawmakers. A random janitor, a Kroger employee, an auto mechanic—what they say is always going to be more interesting.”
cjr.org/the-interview/just-b…
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Update - make that *NINE* straight weeks at #1, which constitutes a new nonfiction record, at least in recent memory.
By comparison the decidedly non-nonfiction FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY hit nine weeks in 2012.
Nothing has had this kind of longevity since then.
Here’s to @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan for doing the impossible.
REGIME CHANGE now has *EIGHT* straight weeks at #1.
How rare is this? Over the past decade the longest nonfiction streaks are:
Michelle Obama’s BECOMING - 8 weeks (2019)
Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY - 7 weeks (2018)
David Grann’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON - 7 weeks (2024)
Jonathan Haidt’s ANXIOUS GENERATION - 6 weeks (2024)
Bessel Van Der Kolk’s THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE - 6 weeks (2025)
Absolute bestseller domination by @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan.
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NEWS: The author of the DNC's 2024 autopsy says a key chapter was omitted, leading to a striking dispute with the party's leader.
Read the chapter — and the untold story of an autopsy that won't die at NYT —>
nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/po…
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Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlantic’s August issue, @rosehorowitch explores the reading collapse—and its effects on civilization: theatln.tc/BYL9zqM8
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"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides."
"When is a player offsides?"
"Whenever anything exciting happens."
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It's been years since a nonfiction debut achieved this velocity. TENS of thousands of copies of REGIME CHANGE sold in a few *HOURS*.
Amazon is flat out of books.
Physical books are hard to come by nationwide.
Congrats to @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan for the earthquake proving nonfiction publishing is far from dead.
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Excerpt from REGIME CHANGE, by @jonathanvswan and me: Inside the internal alarm at Trump and his powerful adviser, Stephen Miller, looking to upend basic due process rights just months into the administration. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/po…
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Some very unusual stuff happened in the White House Situation Room last summer. Adapted from @maggieNYT and my forthcoming book, "Regime Change" - gift link: nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magaz…
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Congratulations to staff writers @AshleyRParker and @michaelscherer for receiving the 39th annual @PresGeraldRFord Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Read more: geraldrfordfoundation.org/jo…
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New pod: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE NBA?
I talked to @TimAlberta about basketball's era of bad vibes—tanking, flopping, load-managing, ratings woes, worthless regular season games—and his profile of Adam Silver, under whom team valuations have septupled despite this deluge of negativity.
The themes of this pod are the cultural themes of our times, especially the downsides of treating culture like a publicly traded firm seeking to maximize earnings-per-share, and the way that efforts to optimize cultural products for profitability tend to degrade something essential to the thing itself.
We also talk about how villains in sports are great for sports—but something else happens when fans start to believe that the sport itself, and the establishment figures charged with managing it, are the real villains.
youtube.com/watch?v=fxgg2CVq…
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New: Sen. Rand Paul’s son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night.
His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it’s going to be because of “your people.”
“My people?” Lawler asked Paul.
“Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded.
“Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.”
“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said.
He then said that Jews were “anti-American” and how Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel more than America.
notus.org/congress/william-p…
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“It does feel like Adam Silver doesn’t have a single guiding principle other than: Increase profit.” – @Foxworth24 👀
Did @TimAlberta's article on Adam Silver change your opinion of him? A deep-dive into the commissioner, on today's episode....
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About 1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner was staged according to a new survey.
Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans. wapo.st/4wnrxPo
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I first approached Adam Silver about an interview last year, sensing the NBA was near a moment of institutional testing. Neither of us knew what lie ahead.
My look at a commissioner under fire, a league in transition, and a game searching for identity.
theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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In related news: There is still a week left to apply for this incredibly cool opportunity to cover religion for the Texas Tribune AND Religion News Service. religionnews.com/2026/01/15/…
I talk to college journalism students all over the country. And the best advice I can offer—if they're serious about a career in reporting (not opining, influencing, etc)—is to apply to the Allbritton Journalism Institute
New cohort deadline is tomorrow: aji.org/application-for-the-…
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The Allbritton Journalism Institute is seeking applicants for the 2026-2028 Reporting Fellowship.
🚨 Applications are due tomorrow, February 18. 🚨
Fellows are paid $60,000 per year to take classes with some of the country’s best journalists and to write for NOTUS.
aji.org/application-for-the-…
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I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today. 🧵
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them? theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
