Gilad Edelman

Ground meat implies the existence of sky meat

Can you please leave the Nets out of this? We've been through enough

Seems like a bit of a constitutional issue to suppose that the sitting president can sue people and news organizations in his individual capacity in federal district court.

It's interesting how some people act as if breaking up a company (say, Google) is akin to a death sentence, but out in the real world, corporate juggernauts choose to break themselves up all the time

The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double As American power recedes, South Korea, Japan, and a host of other countries may pursue the bomb.

🧵 Earlier this year, I traveled to East Asia for a story about whether South Korea and Japan will pursue nuclear weapons as China continues its nuclear build-up and the U.S. becomes a (much) less reliable ally.

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The greatest freestyle rapper of all time is a YouTuber named Harry Mack, who had the misfortune of coming up at a time when people don't really care about freestyling anymore. But he has essentially perfected the form.

The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse Humanity is set to start shrinking several decades ahead of schedule.

ruh roh www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I enjoyed MATERIALISTS aside from the acting, writing, and directing.

What Chris Murphy Learned From the New Right The standard-issue Northeast progressive wants to take the Democratic Party down a populist path.

"Listen: Blake Masters is a creepy weirdo," Chris Murphy told me, "but a lot of the stuff he was getting into in 2022—about the emptiness of American life when all that matters is how much you buy and how good a consumer you are—really, it spoke to me.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Decade of Golden-Escalator Politics It was here that Donald Trump descended into American politics.

Weird to think, as I approach middle age, that I have spent just over 50 percent of my adult life living in the Trump era www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

How I Accidentally Inspired a Major Chinese Motion Picture A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports. Now it’s a movie with a very different message.

"My article, titled 'Year of the Pigskin,' was natural Hollywood bait," Christopher Beam writes. "Now a Chinese studio appeared to have simply lifted the idea":

The Zany Sports Movie That Explains U.S.-China Relations A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through football. Now it’s a major Chinese motion picture—with a very different message.

This is quite the yarn by @chrisbeam.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why rents are rising again U.S. renters face higher costs as construction stalls, Redfin says.

It seems bad that higher interest rates, a tool meant to reduce inflation, mechanically cause inflation to increase in certain very important categories www.axios.com/2025/06/02/a...

The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone “Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.

One of many things I learned from this article: one of Trump's phone backgrounds is an image of HIS OWN FACE www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

What would we do without philosophers?

Accusing our opponents of "ignoring tradeoffs" is really hot right now — I wonder when we'll go back to just saying they're wrong?

What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout

"A critical mass of the nation’s politicians, news outlets, and major brands regularly post content for free to the exclusive streaming platform for the Ye song 'Heil Hitler.'"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/

It's good to read the text of an executive order before publishing an article about it in a leading newspaper

All fair points. But you were asking what people mean when they refer to a "free trade consensus." The answer is: the belief that tariffs are bad. That was the consensus!

I think this is what they have in mind:

"The jobs that we lost to China 20 years ago: We’re not getting those back," Autor says. "China doesn’t even want those jobs anymore. They are losing them to Vietnam, and they aren’t upset about it."

Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’ The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.

This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Trump's big "pause" can't undo the damage from swinging back and forth on tariff policy, and also, the average tariff level is actually higher now www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

My Day Inside America’s Most Hated Car The Cybertruck is a 7,000-pound Rorschach test.

I got flipped off 17 times in the making of this story www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Ugly Fight Over Ayn Rand’s Estate The author gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver.

Ayn Rand gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver.

My deep dive on the battle for Ayn Rand’s estate:

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The Ugly Fight Over Ayn Rand’s Estate The author gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver.

This story is incredible: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Amazing: the executive order attempting to close the Department of Education literally claims that the problem is that the agency is *too small*

"I suspect that, with the right ascendant politically and culturally, bad-boy podcasters have run short of DEI sacred cows to skewer. Now, in an effort to keep churning out provocative content, they’re pivoting toward antisemitism."

oh that's a great belief

According to Ruth Marcus, her column criticizing Bezos's edict was spiked because it was speculative to suggest that Bezos's edict would lead to columns being spiked www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...