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Someday the illusion that diamonds are valuable will disintegrate, remembered only as a historical curiosity. It's weird that tiny crystals of carbon are universally recognized tokens of wealth, power, and romance—but it's not an accident.
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This is the kind of story that's better to start reading without knowing anything going in. Trust me on this. Masterful on many levels, by @MatthewTeague: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
This story, by @SStossel, is compulsively readable. One of the best: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
This @jean_twenge article caused a sensation when it was published. For good reason. “Millions of women are being told when to get pregnant based on statistics from a time before electricity, antibiotics, or fertility treatment.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
I lost count a long time ago of the number of times I’ve reread the initial description of Fred, the entirely lovable “vile old dachshund,” in this E.B. White classic. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
It’s possible I have recommended this story more than any other in the past decade. One reason why: @arielsabar and @denisewills pull off the rare trick of making the reporting of the story the story itself. Engrossing: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
I love this story. It's about science and mystery, but it's also about fairy tales. And contains so many magical sentences, like this one: "Keller grew up among rocks, in the alpine crevices of a Swiss village where the neighbors still believed in witches."theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Cosmic wonder from @andersen: "No aspect of our world is as mysterious as consciousness... the sense of being located in a body that exists within a larger world of color, sound, and touch, all of it filtered through our thoughts and imbued by emotion." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Just trust me on this one: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
This story, by @MelissaFGreene, is gorgeously written and entirely engrossing. An attempt to describe it further wouldn't do it justice. Please just read it: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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I’ve been writing about conspiracy theories and misinformation for more than a decade. But QAnon, which first emerged in 2017, always seemed different. (1/10)
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For the uninitiated, the basic premise: Q is a military insider with proof that world leaders are secretly torturing children; the malefactors are embedded in the “deep state”; Trump is working to thwart them. Q posts internet clues called “Q drops” to advance these ideas. (3/10)
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Today @TheAtlantic launched a new series about this weird limbo we’re all in. We're taking stock of what we've lost in the world left behind, and imagining the world already being remade in its place. I’ll keep updating this thread.
Here's @JamesFallows on what flying will be like for the next many years. Turns out the last two decades of air travel, which so often seemed undignified and awful, actually represented the golden age of flying: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
And here’s @megangarber on how handshakes were always bad, and will not be missed.
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In an October 2016 editorial, @TheAtlantic described Donald Trump as a “demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar,” unfit to be president.

At the two-year mark of Trump's presidency, @JeffreyGoldberg writes: “In retrospect, we may be guilty of understatement.”
This morning we are launching a big project we’re calling #TrumpUnthinkable. We asked 50 writers to reflect on 50 moments that would have been unthinkable in any other presidency, Democratic or Republican.
You can read @JeffreyGoldberg’s editor’s note and find all 50 ranked moments here:

theatlantic.com/unthinkable/
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