This is an edition of The AtlanticDaily, 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.
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 ... .
Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, is the sort of highly selective institution that jockeys for the unofficial title of Harvard of the South. Recently, the university’s chancellor had a new idea ... the national-chain model of undergraduate education.
White-collar workers are getting nervous, with good reason. Sure, 98 percent of college graduates who want a job still have one, and wages are ticking up ... But the labor market for office workers is beginning to shift ... Payments last for only so long ... .
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.
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 ... .
“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.
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 ... .
The most striking passages in Picky, a forthcoming book by the historian Helen Zoe Veit, describe the way famous 19th-centuryAmerican figures ate as children ... To wit ... “Kid food,” as a category, is a recent invention ... [Read ... [Read ... [Read ... .
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 ... .
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.