Ashley Parker

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science

Perhaps the only RFK Jr. story this week that doesn't have you Googling a sexual term you've never heard of. And we have @michaelscherer to thank for this legitimately great read... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science

Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he's right? @michaelscherer spent hours debating with him to find out... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

My v self-aware 7-year-old: "I am FULL of CRAZY ideas — and some even turn out to be good ones!"

Opinion | The Epstein files will come out. No one is looking good. Conspiracy theories are unlikely to be put to rest with looming disclosures.

Profile in personal liberties and free markets and courage... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

White House Sweats, and He’s the Cause (Published 2011)

Would like to do my part to contribute to the Larry Summer's discourse, so sharing this old NYT story I did, which happens to have a scene of Summers working out, shirtless, in the EEOB. www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/u...

(Some) MAGA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun What does it mean to be female and conservative in 2025?

Come for the Make America Hot Again conservatives having sex in the bathroom lede... Stay for the fascinating exploration of “city Republicans” v “tradwives.” From @elainejgodfrey, natch. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The 2025 Atlantic Gift Guide None

Be sure to check out @TheAtlantic Holiday Gift Guide. Because after you've gotten everyone in your life a subscription to...The Atlantic...you still might want some other options: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Trump’s Eye-Popping Postelection Windfall Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.

💰💰Money money money. 💰💰Trump’s fundraising haul is approaching $2 billion, sources tell me and
@michaelscherer.bsky.social—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump’s Nearly $2 Billion Postelection Windfall Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.

NEW: On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser: "I want you to keep going." A year later, his fundraising tally is approaching $2 billion. w/ @ashleyrparker.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love

I just googled “wforgith” — curious to learn a wild new word — but I believe it’s just a… typo?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?

If you fear your country is slipping toward authoritarianism, isn’t sacrificing your late-night Subway snack the least you should do? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?

At one point, sandwiches were served for lunch, an irony not lost on a jury spending hours contemplating the many possible uses of the breaded form (nutrition, satiety, projectile). “Then we had lots and lots of jokes about the condiments,” the juror told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?

“I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Dunn confessed to law enforcement upon being apprehended—a sort of modern Williams Carlos Williams (“I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox …”) for the more carnivorous, angrier set. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?

I talked to a Sandwich Guy juror. Inside the Dadaist deliberations on the case that captivated the nation's capital: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Rahm Emanuel … For President? He’d like you to keep an open mind.

“You won’t fuck up this profile,” Rahm Emanuel said, faux-menacing, jabbing four-and-a-half fingers at me, “because if you do, your kids won’t have a mother anymore.”

My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rahm Emanuel … For President? He’d like you to keep an open mind.

Rahm Emanuel just wants your f*cking vote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rahm Emanuel … For President? He’d like you to keep an open mind.

Love him or hate him—and plenty do both—Rahm Emanuel is likely be a force in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. My profile, several months in the making: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rahm Emanuel is running to the be president, in the honey-badger lane. My favorite tale of his relentlessness — below. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rahm Emanuel … For President? He’d like you to keep an open mind.

Rahm Emanuel is almost certainly running for president in 2028, and I spent the past few months with him. My profile on the impish, maddening, relentless Kiehl's lotion devotee, hoping to equal parts charm and bulldoze his way to the Oval Office: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Karine Jean-Pierre and a Book Tour Most Authors Would Not Dream Of

"With age comes what happens when you get older." More Karine Jean-Pierre koans... in this NYT take on the current mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

My two kids, epitomized:

6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”

2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

Could you pass the ICE personal-fitness test? 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

Whenever your lawyer is forced to claim that you are “the furthest thing from a Nazi,” you're losing: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

During troubled times in news industry, 168-year-old Atlantic thrives with newspaper-magazine hybrid Jeffrey Goldberg has bold goals: “We want The Atlantic to be the greatest writer's collective on the planet,” the magazine's editor-in-chief said.

My boss, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social , just wants to build "the greatest writer’s collective on the planet." Cool, cool.

Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...

💛❤️Things I recently learned: It is hard to take yourself seriously in therapy while wearing bright yellow and red “Quit Playing Ames With My Heart” socks. ❤️💛

OH at a coffee shop near Georgetown, uttered unironically, on what seems to be a date: "I can't believe you were born in the 1900s."

I tried to pass Pat Riley’s infamous conditioning test. Hint: I did not

This is such a fun read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

And reminds me of my high school days running "Suicides," though I have to imagine the name has since been changed...

Hundreds of Generals Try to Keep a Straight Face Pete Hegseth gathered commanders from around the globe to unveil new physical-fitness standards.

Pete Hegseth gathered generals from around the globe to unveil new physical-fitness standards in a speech that felt like a TED Talk. @nancyayoussef and @Missy Ryan talked to military officers about what it all means:
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

6-yr-old: “Music is the key to life.”

Me: “I thought we were just talking about how reading is the key to life.”

6-yr-old: “Yeah, I know that. BUT in KPop Demon Hunters…”