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November 2, 2016
November 2, 2016
In The 2016 Presidential Election: A Devil’s Glossary David Graham channels the spirit of Ambrose Bierce, the great Ohio-born writer who published the first edition of what is now known as The Devil’s Dictionary, a series of sardonic definitions of words.
For a comprehensive list of words used in the 2016 election, read David Graham’s piece here.
November 1, 2016
Photographer Daniella Zalcman’s double exposures combine portraits of indigenous Canadians who were former students at church-run boarding boarding schools. "Students were punished for speaking their native languages or observing indigenous traditions, physically and sexually assaulted, and in extreme instances subjected to medical experimentation and sterilization,“ Zalcman said. In her book, Signs of Your Identity, Zalcman documents the effects of this trauma.
For more photos and quotes from this devastating period in Canadian history, view Erasing Indigenous Heritage in The Atlantic.
October 26, 2016
Whenever using a technology makes people unhappy, the question is always: Is it the technology’s fault, or is it ours? Is Twitter terrible, or is it just a platform terrible people have taken advantage of? Are dating apps exhausting because of some fundamental problem with the apps, or just because dating is always frustrating and disappointing?
Julie Beck writes in The Rise of Dating-App Fatigue.
(illustration by Chelsea Beck––no relation to Julie)
October 25, 2016
From Photos of a Divided America, one of 42 photos. Young people hold hands for a prayer during a gathering at sunset outside the Christian Fellowship Church in Benton, Kentucky, n April 10, 2016. Nearly a quarter of Americans say they no longer affiliate with a faith tradition. It’s the highest share ever recorded in surveys, indicating the stigma for not being religious has eased, even in heavily evangelical areas. Americans who say they have no ties to organized religion, dubbed “nones,” now make up about 23 percent of the population, just behind evangelicals, who comprise about 25 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. (David Goldman / AP)
October 25, 2016
October 25, 2016
Benjamin Grant’s Instagram project, Daily Overview, has been sharing high definition satellite photographs to give everyone access to a unique above-Earth perspective.
Grant has shared a selection of unpublished images from this project with The Atlantic in The Awesomeness of Earth from Above. Click here to view the entire gallery.
October 21, 2016
More than a dozen major websites experienced outages and other technical problems, according to user reports and the web-tracking site downdetector.com. They included The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, and others.
How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?
Robinson Meyer and Adrienne LaFrance report in When the Entire Internet Seems to Break At Once
(mikeledray / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic)
October 20, 2016
![“What [Trump] missed, though, was the recent change that “nasty” has undergone. It’s an ugly word, perhaps—it requires the mouth of its utterer to catch and gape and hiss—but it is also, now, a hopeful one. When women, after Wednesday’s debate,...](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161103093755im_/http://68.media.tumblr.com/1781b263ceaaaf8b3db3ed0a3023f9d4/tumblr_ofdayrRiY21qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
What [Trump] missed, though, was the recent change that “nasty” has undergone. It’s an ugly word, perhaps—it requires the mouth of its utterer to catch and gape and hiss—but it is also, now, a hopeful one. When women, after Wednesday’s debate, attested to their own nastiness, they were echoing a reclaiming of the word that has already been taking place in pop culture.
Megan Garber writes in ‘Nasty’: A Feminist History
(photo credit: Francois Nel / Getty)
October 19, 2016
Robinson Meyer offers a new way of understanding Trump in his essay Donald Trump Is the First Demagogue of the Anthropocene:
He not only represents a white racial backlash, and he has not only opened the way for an American extension of the European far right. Insofar as his supporters are drawn to him by a sense of global calamity, and insofar as his rhetoric singles out the refugee as yet another black and brown intruder trying to violate the nation’s cherished borders, Trump is the first demagogue of the Anthropocene.
(illustration: Scott Olson / Getty / Iakov Filimonov / Mavrick / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic)
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