The Lessons About Ebola the U.S. Wants to Forget
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. It will likely pass the second largest, an outbreak in the same…
Nobody Even Expects DOJ to Be Independent Anymore
The most stunning exchange of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing to serve as attorney general came in response to an amiable question. Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, a Republican who appears…
Nobody Even Expects DOJ to Be Independent Anymore
The most stunning exchange of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing to serve as attorney general came in response to an amiable question. Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, a Republican who appears…
The Election Deniers Are in Charge Now
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Tonight, President Trump is expected to give a speech about what he claims is recently declassified intelligence…
Reading a 3,000-Year-Old Poem to a 3-Year-Old Boy
In Book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, a band of war-weary sailors is navigating home when a narrow strait appears on the horizon. The ship, captained by their king, Odysseus, is…
How the Smithsonian Could Fall
Photographs by Caroline Gutman The Trump administration wants to control the Smithsonian, but it won’t be so easy. When experts talk about the institution’s relationship to the federal government, the…
The Unapologetic Crime Fiction of Colson Whitehead
Sturdy, steady, and as reliable as a well-tooled construction, Ray Carney, the “cool machine” that powers the third volume of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, is a time-worn but still fully…
The Opening After Netanyahu
Last week, Rahm Emanuel traveled to Tel Aviv University to deliver an unusually blunt warning: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is jeopardizing Israel’s long-term alliance with the United States. Emanuel, the…
Social Security Is Running Out of Time
Source: YouTube Summary Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to the recent…
An Odyssey Deserving of the Biggest Screen Possible
Emily Wilson’s celebrated translation of Homer’s The Odyssey sets aside the classic description of the epic poem’s hero, Odysseus, as a “man of twists and turns.” Instead, she goes for…














