Amy Weiss-Meyer
@amyweissmeyer.bsky.social
senior editor at The Atlantic
For @theatlantic.com's August issue, I wrote the sons Ethel and Julius Rosenberg left behind, and their decades-long quest for the truth: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Rosenberg Boys
When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened...
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Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlantic’s August issue, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social explores the reading collapse—and its effects on civilization: theatln.tc/Q0QJpF8U
"We saw how much you loved girl math and girl dinners and we cooked up something extra special,” @petridishes.bsky.social writes: “Girl rights! They’re like regular rights but skimpier.”
Are You Enjoying Your Girl Rights Yet?
They’re like regular rights, just skimpier.
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In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Laura Secor visited Iran five times from 2004 to 2012. By getting to know her government-assigned handlers, she saw how some people came to accept a brutal regime—and how others resisted: theatln.tc/fgAC7cum
“Every piece of writing—whether story or argument or rumination, book or essay or letter home—requires the freshness and precision that convey a distinct human presence.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
What Tracy Kidder Stood For
His deep, immersive writing had moral stakes and changed people’s lives.
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for the April issue, I wrote about my amazing grandmother, the forgotten women pilots of World War II, and the nature of progress: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II
The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.
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Eve Baer never stopped believing that her son, unresponsive for decades after a severe brain injury, was still there. Eventually, science proved her right, @sarahzhang.bsky.social reported. This story is a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing:
Is Ian Still In There?
People in a vegetative state may be far more conscious than was once thought.
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One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In December, I traveled to Montgomery to visit the Legacy Museum, which traces the story of Black America from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. I wanted to understand how the museum & its affiliated sites were operating in a moment where so much of the history they present is under attack.
The Power of Private Museums
The Equal Justice Initiative’s historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama, show what’s possible when history isn’t subject to federal funding cuts or executive orders.
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Early-career journalists: @theatlantic.com's amazing fellowship program will be back starting in 2026! Apply now!! www.theatlantic.com/careers#open...
The Atlantic: Careers
Inform, Challenge, Elevate.
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but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
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Patti Smith spoke with @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social over matcha lattes about her new memoir, “Bread of Angels.” In the book, Smith reflects on her lifetime of reinvention—and the twists in her story that have surprised even her. Read more from their conversation:
Patti Smith’s Family Secrets
Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.
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I spoke to Patti Smith about her new memoir, Bread of Angels—a book about childhood, fame, marriage, motherhood and so much more that also includes a big revelation about her heritage www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Patti Smith’s Family Secrets
Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.
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For our November issue marking 250 years of the American experiment, the artist Joe McKendry painted a tableau of figures drawn from the stories in the issue—capturing the Revolutionary Era in all of its complexity, contradictions, and ingenuity. Read more: https://theatln.tc/zEfqnh1q
"One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
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Today is a good day to read @mckaycoppins.bsky.social on the mind games, sibling rivalry, and war for power that culminated in Lachlan Murdoch winning his family’s succession fight: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
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When America entered World War I, Joseph Kurihara became a soldier. When it entered World War II, he became a prisoner, a dissident, and ultimately an exile. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social tells his story in our August issue:
How Joseph Kurihara Lost His Faith in America
He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.
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It’s official: Planned Parenthood has been (mostly) defunded for a year My quick explainer:
“Ms. Glazer, 38, said former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the front-runner, reminded her of a ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
An Actor, a Bookseller and a Chef Walk Into a Voting Booth
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“What we were promised was a reckoning, whatever that meant. What we got was a day off.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Hollowness of This Juneteenth
The holiday was always an implicit warning that what had been done could be done again.
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We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
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CJ Ciaramella@cjciaramella.bsky.social · last yr.I have an important Good Florida Man alert. A dude nicknamed "Weed" jumped in front of an guy trying to stab a woman. “Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear ugly pants. But this dude Joe 'Weed' Clements is one today. And I’m proud to call him brother" www.flkeysnews.com/latest-news/...
🧵 Last year, I came across one of the most harrowing studies I've ever read. It found that 1 in 4 unresponsive brain-injury patients—many considered vegetative—might be cognitively aware but trapped inside their bodies. Could this be true? What did it mean? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
I learned so much from this amazing @sarahzhang.bsky.social piece about the human brain and consciousness—which it turns out scientists are only just beginning to understand. Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
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Carl Hiaasen’s novels made him synonymous with “Florida Weird,” @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social writes. Now it seems like we’re all living in one of his books. https://theatln.tc/Br7uYfWp
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
To say that something is straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel is only a slightly less clichéd way of saying that truth, especially in Florida, is stranger than fiction. For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
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