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The ExIm Struggle: Another Thing to Blame the Boomers For?
Walter Lippmann would have had thoughts on ExIm mess. (Wikipedia)Here’s the background: No. 1 is “Idiocracy: It’s Not Just a Movie Any More,” an initial broadside against the Tea Party-ites who...
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Home-Front Beer News: The Atlantic, Redlands
I had absolutely nothing to do with this, so with clean hands I can enthusiastically celebrate the ad that appears on the back cover of the October issue of the magazine, which has just arrived in the...
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Getting the Band Back Together, Marketplace Edition
Outside the Shinola building near GM’s former world headquarters in downtown DetroitOver the past two years my wife Deb and I have done a number of reports in partnership with Kai Ryssdal and the gang...
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A Map That Dramatizes (and Helps Explain) the Refugee Crisis
The image above is a screenshot from a new interactive map produced by our friends at Esri, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) company that has been one of our partners in our American Futures...
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The Complex Facts, and the Intense Feelings, Behind the ExIm Dispute
If you’re joining us late, there turns out to be an impressively passionate range of views on the future of the Export-Import Bank. For background reading: No. 1 in the series is “Idiocracy: It’s Not...
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Get Ready for Oktoberfest With an Interactive Map of Beer
If you live here, you spend a lot of money on beer.Two days ago I mentioned an interactive Esri map that dramatized the scale of the world's current refugee crisis.Here is a very different one: it is...
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You Want Substance About the ExIm Bank? You've Got It!
Want to read more about international trade in big-ticket items like commercial aircraft? Here’s a place to start!Thanks to the Atlantic’s new-ish Thread feature in this Notes section, I think you will...
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The Obscure-Seeming ExIm Bank Furore Is a Window Into the Heart of Today's...
Thanks to our new threaded-notes feature, you should see all previous installments in this series below. The purpose of this one is to give some answer to the question “Why on Earth should I spend two...
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The 3-D View of Swimming Through the Sky
From my Cirrus pilots’ bulletin board, this delightful video, from professional pilot and flight instructor Caitlin Farley, of an approach to the Mountain Air airport in North Carolina in a Cirrus...
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Today's Hero of the False-Equivalence Struggles: On the Media
False equivalence, for those joining us late, is the almost irresistible instinct in mainstream journalism to present differing views as being equally valid “sides” of an argument, even if one of them...
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The Anti-Governance Party
From Krugman’s column this morningHere’s another challenge for the press — and members of the American public, and people in the rest of the world affected by U.S. debates — in reckoning with this...
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A Wonderful Recognition for Ta-Nehisi Coates
I’m against the idea of “genius.” To me it’s like talking about “naturals” in sports, or speculation in a frat house about whether a woman is a “perfect ten.”Mozart: boy genius. Where was MacArthur...
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Progress Toward a Failed State: Where the Tea Party Is Taking Us
Most Americans have lived their lives in blissful ignorance of the Export-Import Bank, founded under Franklin Roosevelt and still based in Washington D.C.But people in international commerce have...
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The Greatest Song Ever Recorded, Now in Pomplamoose Version
OK, there are lots of great songs. But for me this one has always been in the very first tier, maybe because it became popular, as did the Beach Boys and Pet Sounds, when I was in that teen-aged...
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If You're in D.C. Tomorrow, Come Hear Some News From Al Gore
Our Washington Ideas Forum is in full swing; big and absorbing day just wrapped up, of which you can read the details here.Al Gore, in portrait by Christopher Griffith from our new issue (all rights...
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In Which I Consider Jumping Ship for The New Yorker
From a slideshow of cartoons in Oct 5, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, by Tom Toro, with permissionYeah, here at TheAtlantic we’ve got our 158-year-long tradition, our Civil War reportage by Nathaniel...
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It's a New Fiscal Year! And the Same Old ExIm Impasse
A new month; a new federal fiscal year; a last-second approval of a federal budget; but still no movement on getting the Export-Import Bank back into business.As for why you should care about this...
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Al Gore at the Washington Ideas Forum
Al Gore explaining his point Max Taylor PhotographyAs I previewed last night, this morning in Washington I had a chance to interview Al Gore at our Washington Ideas Forum. The full video is below, with...
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The Certainty of More Shootings?
Umpqua Community College alumnus Donice Smith (L) is embraced after one of her former teachers was shot dead. (Steve Dipaola / Reuters) Three years ago, after the then-latest horrific mass shooting...
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How to Turn Panic Over Terrorism Against the NRA (Hint: Arm Muslims)
I’ve received a flood of mail in response to the Oregon shooting and this item on whether the United States is doomed to be the only developed nation that tolerates mass-fatality shootings as...
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