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Censorship Comes for Stephen Colbert

The Atlantic 18 Feb 2026
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here ... But it was not to be ... Colbert savaged CBS ... Related ... Read.
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Hegseth’s Firing Campaign Reaches Down Into the Ranks

The Atlantic 18 Feb 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a Pentagon meeting last year, passed a note to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll about one of Driscoll’s top aides, asking, in effect. Why hasn’t this guy been fired yet? ... On Thursday, Hegseth finally got his way ... [Read ... .
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A Different Kind of Leading Man

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
Robert Duvall didn’t speak a word in his first film performance ... Duvall died yesterday at the age of 95, having never formally retired from acting ... His filmography tells the story of a changing industry several times over ... “‘Ashes.’ No, I don’t know.
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Marco Rubio’s Impressive Speech

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
As Cabinet members snarl at representatives and senators, and social media fills with semiliterate trolling and insults by public officials, we need to remember that rhetoric—the art of persuasive speech—still matters. Marco Rubio, the U.S ... R ... .
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How Toni Morrison Saw History

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
“I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave them up, she said. “Talk about the offense ... a ghost.
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Europe Has Received the Message

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
The European Union is finally on its way to becoming a power in its own right. That’s not because its member countries have suddenly stopped squabbling or its bureaucratic inertia has melted away ... Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the beginning ... arms ... .
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How American Kids Got So Picky

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
The most striking passages in Picky, a forthcoming book by the historian Helen Zoe Veit, describe the way famous 19th-century American figures ate as children ... To wit ... “Kid food,” as a category, is a recent invention ... [Read ... [Read ... [Read ... .
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For Europe, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
Just like last year, I watched the most important American speech at the Munich Security Conference in the overflow room, sitting on the floor, underneath the speakers ... Just like last year, this group was hoping to hear how the U.S ... U.S ... D ... [Read ... .
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The Republicans Made Peace With Science

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
But this is not what we have found ... The data include 171 budget accounts across 27 agencies, such as National Institutes of Health, NASA, National Science Foundation, and CDC, as well as Pentagon R&D programs ... [Listen ... The final number ... [Read ... .
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Winners of the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
© Huajin Sun / Sony World Photography Awards 2026. Crowning of the King. Shortlist, Natural World & Wildlife. Sun. “At dawn, the newly victorious ‘milu king’ stands tall among a resting herd of does, roaring triumphantly ... Tokyo Rush ... Lubomski ... Chaos ... Inhale.
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This Olympics Is Leaning Hard Into Mixed-Gender Events

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
Olympic skimo is a spectacle ... But at the Olympics, it will involve sprints of approximately three and a half minutes ... Each team will include one man and one woman, each of whom will run the course twice ... The IOC is leaning into these events.
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The Post-Chatbot Era Has Begun

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds ... In under an hour, they had a working prototype ... The post-chatbot era is here ... .
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Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson

The Atlantic 17 Feb 2026
When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, many businesses proudly kept in their windows signs from Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and ’88 presidential runs. He was a revered figure, someone people in D.C. were deeply thankful for ... [Ali Breland ... .
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How Many Wolves Is Enough?

The Atlantic 16 Feb 2026
The wolves arrived in May of last year, just days after Paul Roen had driven his cattle back up to their summer pasture in Northern California’s Sierra Valley ... After weeks of this, Roen finally saw a kill himself ... But still, the kills continued ... .
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