Bhumi Tharoor
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Managing editor @TheAtlantic . MBA. Bachatera. Formerly: @cnn @WashingtonPost . I like news, 🎾, & @jeopardy
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Such a big moment for us.
Today, our newsroom is profitable and growing and it's a testament to our excellent journalism, my colleagues, and most importantly, our readers.
Announced today: The Atlantic now has more than 1 million subscriptions and reaches profitability
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Some personal news — delighted to announce my new role as managing editor at
@TheAtlantic
, a publication I admire so much with a team of peerless colleagues. I'm so excited for all that's to come!
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Some big news: Currently on maternity leave with our new bundle, Kahaani❤️. Kahaani means story in Hindi and
@ishaantharoor
and I are so grateful to belong to hers.
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His many trophies are now and forever eclipsed by the humiliating spectacle of his political foray.
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Update:
@ishaantharoor
and I tied the knot over the weekend in a ceremony surrounded by loved ones
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Some news❗️I’m so thrilled to announce that I've accepted a new role in
@TheAtlantic
’s newsroom as a senior editor focused on strategy, growth, and subscriber retention, hoping to bolster all the vital work my colleagues do.
Also you can subscribe here:
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“..theory of relativity became famous, a pamphlet was published with the title “100 Authors Against Einstein.” Einstein replied, “Why a hundred? If they were right, one would have been enough.”
@gcaw
@TheAtlantic
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"Even on crime, DeSantis must avoid specifics, because specifics might remind his audience that Florida’s homicide numbers are worse than New York’s or California’s."
@davidfrum
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Caitlin is an extraordinary journalist and this Pulitzer is so well-deserved. Congratulations to
@itscaitlinhd
and her editor, the brilliant
@SStossel
. Read the investigation that exposed how the Trump-era policy separated children from their parents.
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Hello, HI journalist twitter, I'm very excited to announce a handful of important positions that we're recruiting for here at
@TheAtlantic
. Please take a look and share widely, we're looking forward to considering a broad range of candidates. DM for more info!
#JobAlert
thread:
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More guns, more places, fewer checks, fewer protections: Since Sandy Hook, this country has plunged backward and downward toward barbarism.
@davidfrum
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But Putin has almost certainly contemplated the high probability that using a nuclear weapon could bring about the end of his rule faster than any of the bungled decisions he’s already made.
@RadioFreeTom
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A bit of news from me: Friday was my last day with
@cnn
/
@CNNCareers
. Next week, I join
@TheAtlantic
as Deputy Director of the Talent Lab, working with the talented
@cparsons
@mthomps
&
@abdallah_fayyad
!
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Whatever this is—whatever we decide to call this—it is not peaceful, and it is not, in many ways, a transition. It is something darker. Are we now, at last, prepared to ask why?
Ta-Nehisi Coates revisits “The First White President.”
@TheAtlantic
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Was gifted this exceptional treasure from
@TheAtlantic
archives: Oct 1953 magazine with a collection of essays, fiction, art, and poems from India. Truly a marvelous time portal. Our archive is digitized so the issue can be found here:
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.
@TimAlberta
spent many, many hours with people inside the Trump campaign and the quotes and details in this story are stunning. Take a read
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For many of them, time is running out. For some, it already has.
All of this was foreseeable—all of it was foreseen.
George Packer’s latest
@TheAtlantic
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Yesterday evening
@ishaantharoor
was honored with the Ted Sorensen award by
@Network2020
as an emerging leader with a passion for sound global engagement and dedication to the public good. Proud of him and very glad his exceptional column received this wonderful recognition
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“The political neutrality of America’s armed forces has been a sacred principle of civil-military relations in the United States since George Washington first took command of the embryonic Continental Army in 1775.”
@RadioFreeTom
’s latest
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“…nationalism, is rooted in optimism and confidence; nationalism is a sour inferiority complex, a sullen attachment to blood-and-soil fantasies that is always looking abroad with insecurity and even hatred.” By
@RadioFreeTom
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Win or lose in court, Trump is determined to bring us all into a summer-heat dumpster with him for as long as he can.
@RadioFreeTom
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Historically, murder prosecutions of police officers are extremely rare, and among the few cases that are tried, convictions are also extremely rare.
@GrahamDavidA
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Narcissism is a common malady, but for the Lost Boys, it is the indispensable primer for a bomb whose core is an unstable mass of insecurities about masculine identity.
@RadioFreeTom
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“..having signed an agreement to accept union scale as payment and an NDA that said my soul would burn like a script on fire if I revealed any of the plotlines.”
@RadioFreeTom
!!!!
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"...it is not just his goodness but rather the peculiarity of his goodness that has made him, 16 years after his death, triumphant as a symbol of human possibility, although just about everything he stood for has been lost." by
@TomJunod
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1/ Bollywood has been central to the creation of India’s national myth. Its movies are full of dance and song, but their genius lies in the ability to weave serious issues—
@AatishTaseer
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Some news: After a 3-year journey, today is my final class of my MBA. I’m incredibly thankful for my friends, family, & colleagues (
@CNN
&
@TheAtlantic
) who’ve been generous & supportive. And I apologize for the complaining, it was hard sometimes. It’s quite a time to graduate
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Alone, polarization is damaging but manageable. When polarization merges with deranged conspiracy theories, then democratic breakdown becomes far more likely.
@brianklaas
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“..we need to inquire more closely into who among us will betray our country for fame, for approval, or because they somehow think that our laws and classifications are for less enlightened citizens than themselves.”
From
@RadioFreeTom
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“The cognitive dissonance produced by this self-knowing resentment encourages extremism, not moderation.”
@RadioFreeTom
in todays Daily.
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#JobAlert
!
@TheAtlantic
is hiring the next group of fellows. This is a PAID, one-year fellowship in DC for high-performing, early-career journalists. The deadline is January 27, and the fellowship starts in July. Apply soon!
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False! BUT those of you following along at home can subscribe or gift a subscription (50% off for educators and students!) here:
The Atlantic Magazine is dying, like most magazines, so they make up a fake story in order to gain some relevance. Story already refuted, but this is what we are up against. Just like the Fake Dossier. You fight and and fight, and then people realize it was a total fraud!
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Gorbachev’s courage and decency were not in his attempts to save the Soviet Union, but in his decision to accept the inevitable rather than begin the last-ditch spree of repression demanded by the Soviet coup plotters.
@RadioFreeTom
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Cheering for the United States felt more like cheering for what this country was aspiring to be, rather than just what it was.
@ClintSmithIII
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.
@JenSeniorNY
's latest is stunning and poignant: an essential read that examines how America has––and hasn't––cared for those with intellectual disabilities. You'll want to keep some tissues close.
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In their anti-learning culture, conservatives have come to view everything that happens, however unwelcome, as proof simply that the most extreme people were the most correct.
@davidfrum
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"The NFL will never solve this problem if the owners continue to operate as if the lack of minority coaches is somehow the fault of the coaches—and not the system that the league and its owners have purposely constructed." by
@jemelehill
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Today is
#IndianIndependenceDay
. I found this essay Nehru wrote for
@TheAtlantic
in 1940 (7 years before freedom) and it’s striking to read—esp in today’s context—about the struggle for democracy and independence.
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Then there are some who say that every terrible thing—including even this untenable thing that no civilization could endure, this demonic murder lottery of schoolchildren—simply must go on, and somehow, they are winning.
@ebruenig
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Republicans who once submitted to Trump are now looking for exits. They have no principled objection to doing business with extremists, bigots, and charlatans.
@davidfrum
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“Brown people in general have become his targets. And there is no reason to hope that he will reform. His followers reward his radicalism, and his handlers are among the most cynical figures in American political history.”
@JeffreyGoldberg
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“superforecasters”: individuals who are consistently better at making predictions about world events than the public, and even than the experts in relevant fields.
@mrianleslie
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The first illiberal thrust was launched not against the hardware of democracy (the electoral system) but the software that enables it to operate—that is, an apolitical judiciary, a free press, and other elements of civil society.
@JonahBlank
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AND we're hiring a staff writer to join Tom writing The Daily! Join our excellent newsletter team
Tomorrow begins my first day as a staff writer at
@TheAtlantic
- and my return to the Daily! You can sign up for the Daily here:
I'll be writing the Daily most days (as well as other pieces for the magazine, of course), and I hope you'll join us.
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This is quite a sentence:
Others might be lost to a devastating fungus that drugs the bugs with mind-altering psychedelics and makes their butts fall off.
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…what exactly counts as “going rogue” and how can anyone distinguish it from just another day in the Republican Party?
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Tom will be anchoring The Daily for the next little while and you won’t want to miss it!💥
In today's Atlantic Daily,
@RadioFreeTom
is skeptical of the January 6 hearings' ability to overcome America's indifference. Plus: the latest dispatches from our contributors, and what to watch this evening.
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“To knit an enormous, poor, multireligious, polyglot territory into a modern nation required near-reckless trust in the strength of the liberal ideal.” via
@Samanth_S
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"When asked by Time magazine why he hadn’t done so, Trump said that he’d been too busy, but added: “And I probably have said very good things about him,” meaning Gershkovich."
@RadioFreeTom
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May it never be eroded by the brute force of an arm wielding a knife.
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Everything New York Democrats have done to protect their incumbency is coming back to haunt them.
@MollyJongFast
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ME, I LIKE MALLS.
“Amazon and the companies like it invent the solutions to the problems they created, and you pay for them to be implemented. At least in some cases, physical stores may ultimately win out.”
@amandamull
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Some simply want to live in a country governed by different rules, a country that does not have murderous designs on its neighbors, a country that is not a menace to the world.
@anneapplebaum
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Léelo en español:
The story of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy is one of both cruelty and incompetence.
@itscaitlinhd
spent a year and a half investigating how it came to be, and who is responsible:
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…Bad Bunny doesn’t just serve up music. He serves up culture, and the culture is political. Even when you can dance to it.
Art, with its passions and abstractions, is often the only viable way to make sense of an absurd world. By Xochitl Gonzalez
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At one point during a routine line of questioning, Jones told his lawyer, “You can’t be told about the matrix; you have to see it.” Jones’s attorney responded, “Let’s slow down a little bit.”
@cwarzel
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Writers represent the part of our culture that engages with humanity through ideas, whose passion is expressed through sentences and paragraphs & pages. It’s a realm we should not just preserve but defend. May it
@galbeckerman
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But visiting as a proof of technology or to expand the frontier of human possibility is very different from living there. It is not in the realm of hospitable to humans. Mars will kill you.
@shannonmstirone
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“In a country whose founding documents declare that all are created equal, views like those held by the president create cognitive dissonance. How can anyone lay claim to the American creed while excluding people on the basis of race?“
@AdamSerwer
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One of the most insidious consequences of stereotypes about immigrants is that they have been used to justify punishments that outweigh their transgressions.
@itscaitlinhd
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“The former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the resulting attack on the U.S. Capitol, place him squarely within the ambit of the disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible to serve as president ever again.”
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Don't miss this fantastic piece by
@realcpaz
"A collection of the biggest lies he’s told as the nation barrels toward a public-health and economic calamity."
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Hello, world!
@TheLeadCNN
with
@jaketapper
is hiring an AP to join the team. We’re looking for a sharp candidate with major market or network production experience, more here —>
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"Superman, who is as corny as Kansas in August, is a study in what happens when ultimate power is constrained by self-discipline and virtue."
@RadioFreeTom
is only a little bit wrong in his Superman take...but it is hilarious and worth your time!
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#JobAlert
Supervising Producer for
@TheLeadCNN
- Join
@jaketapper
and this incredible team in Washington!
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"Licht’s catastrophic tenure is a shame, not only because CNN is one of the largest and most important reporting organizations in the country, but also because the role it used to play in the American media was valuable."
@GrahamDavidA
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"The children who will triumph will be the ones who can write not like machines, but like human beings. That’s an enormously more difficult skill to impart or master than sentence structure."
@StephenMarche
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As a protester was led out of his rally in Las Vegas during the ’16 campaign, Trump told the crowd that the guards were too “gentle” and that he would have liked to “punch him in the face.”
@PeterAtlantic
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I hope you’ll consider becoming a subscriber so we can keep finding new heights.
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India’s problem is the world’s problem.
.. The world is on track to record more COVID-19 deaths this year than it did in 2020. The risks of allowing current outbreaks to ravage places such as India aren’t limited to those countries alone.
@YasmeenSerhan
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Perhaps ChatGPT and the technologies that underlie it are less about persuasive writing and more about superb bullshitting.
@ibogost
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Math, after all, is infinite; no human can best it. ... Losing my ability to learn and understand math represented the frailty of the human mind, but my ability to relearn it represents the mind’s innate resiliency.
@CAMONGHNE
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So very proud of
@ishaantharoor
and grateful he spends his days making us all a little smarter about the world. This is incredibly well-deserved!!
Ishaan Tharoor's keen and nuanced analysis of global politics in the Washington Post's daily column and newsletter Today's WorldView attracts a huge daily audience of readers from around the world.
@ishaantharoor
@washingtonpost
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This is the one piece to make time to read - it’s haunting, moving, and beautifully written.
Thread about my cover story today in
@Theatlantic
:
My brother's roommate, Bobby McIlvaine, was killed on 9/11. They'd lived together since college. Bobby was 26 years old. 1/8
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The former chief of staff explained, in the clearest terms yet, his misgivings about Trump’s behavior regarding North Korea, immigration, and Ukraine.
@PeterAtlantic
for
@TheAtlantic
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"Goop, a one-stop shop for people hell-bent on perfecting themselves, has helped sell Americans on the idea that “wellness” means buying things until you feel better."
@amandamull
this piece is full of such gems, what a delight.
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“Twitter has so fully assumed the role of a far-right platform that it might be killing its competitors.”
@cwarzel
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“I believe great art is like bypass surgery. It allows us to go around all of the psychological distancing mechanisms that turn people cold to the most vulnerable among us.”
@Lin_Manuel
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"What the rest of us learned during the Trump era is that a party led by craven men and women—some of them cynical, others true believers, almost all afraid to speak out—will end up normalizing the transgressive, unethical, and moronic." By Peter Wehner
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Definitely read Lora’s debut in The Atlantic exploring a good question: Who caused inflation?
My first edition of
@theatlantic
's The Daily is up. I wrote about inflation!
Many thanks to
@IsabelFattal
,
@RadioFreeTom
and team!!
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“But child-care spending is unlike other spending. By some measures, it’s getting more expensive faster than almost every other consumer good or service that the government tracks.”
#DemDebate
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".. they bite their victims near their pectoral fins and then squeeze the liver out through the wounds.”
Resurfacing a 2019
@edyong209
story because it’s Friday & ppl should just know about the orcas.
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“You may think you know, but you don’t. And if you can’t know for yourself, you can’t know for anyone else—and you certainly can’t understand what the experience is like for anyone else.”
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The science behind what makes people awkward, tips for managing the holiday-party embarrassments that might lie ahead, and—perhaps most important—reasons to embrace the most graceless parts of yourself.
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Also I invite everyone to practice this method of interrogation on their journey to self-awareness. 🙏🏽
Since folks seem to be talking about their wives deleting their tweets... I doubt there's any more effective tactic than that of
@bhumikatharoor
, who asks me to explain "what's good about this tweet" when she sees one (okay, she sees many) of mine that are suspect. Humiliating.
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"...they fear that the candidates are struggling to understand a key fact about Latinos in America: They are a tremendously diverse group ideologically and culturally. And that diversity means there’s an opening for Republican overtures." By
@realcpaz
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Come hang out with us, we are fun!
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“And if you think none of this can happen in America, please read the history of Hungary or Venezuela, stable democracies that were destroyed by extremist autocrats.”
@anneapplebaum
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