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Dan Frank Was a Gifted and Generous Editor
I don’t know how many people in the reading public would recognize the name Dan Frank. Millions of them should. He was a gifted editor, mentor, leader, and friend, who within the publishing world was...
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What Ancient Rome Tells Us About Today’s Senate
The U.S. Senate’s abdication of duty at the start of this Memorial Day weekend, when 11 senators (nine of them Republican) did not even show up to vote on authorizing an investigation of the January 6...
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Does the U.S. Senate Resemble Ancient Rome?
Over the weekend, this space held the third installment in the “Lessons of Rome” chronicles by my friend Eric Schnurer. This one went into the comparison between the Roman Senate, in the era of Cicero...
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Our Towns: State Programs Are Laboratories for the Nation
My wife, Deb, has written about the concept of “Big Little Ideas.” These are modest-seeming, simple-and-practical steps that can have surprisingly large consequences.I am drawn to the parallel concept...
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Will the U.S. Pass a Point of No Return?
This is the latest installment in a series that began back in 2019, with an article I did for the print magazine on Americans’ long-standing obsession with the decline-and-fall narrative of Rome.Many...
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A ‘Climate Corps’ of California Volunteers
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Back in the early days of the pandemic, when some people imagined that...
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What Matters in Tonight’s Debate
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This evening we’ll see Donald Trump and Joe Biden on the same stage, in...
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What Happens After the Election
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. What else is going on in the country, with less than two weeks in this...
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How to Reconnect Rural and Urban America
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. As it was in 2016, so it is again in 2020: A central axis of...
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What Post-pandemic Repair Could Look Like
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The pandemic ravaged America’s big cities first, and now its countryside....
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How Michael Jones Changed Our Daily Lives
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Last week, at his home in Sunnyvale, California, a man named Michael T....
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Learning From the New Deal—For the Next Recovery
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. A few days ago, I was talking with the mayor of a medium-sized “red...
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When a Company Invests in an ‘Underdog City’
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The country is full of “underdog cities”—communities and regions that are...
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Why the Our Towns Documentary Is Timely
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This evening—April 13, at 9 p.m. ET—HBO will air its new documentary Our...
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A Film ‘for the 80 Percent’
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Last night HBO aired its new documentary, Our Towns, which grew out of a...
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What the Bidens Understand About Community College
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In the last week of April, Joe Biden gave his address to a joint session...
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How FDR Changed Political Communication
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has a new project called UNUM, about the...
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Dan Frank Was a Gifted and Generous Editor
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. I don’t know how many people in the reading public would recognize the...
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What Ancient Rome Tells Us About Today’s Senate
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The U.S. Senate’s abdication of duty at the start of this Memorial Day...
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Does the U.S. Senate Resemble Ancient Rome?
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Over the weekend, this space held the third installment in the “Lessons...
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