Wes Moore’s message is tailor-made for the political moment—but he faces distrust from voters who aren’t sure who he really is, @jenishawo.bsky.social reports.
The Preacher
Wes Moore isn’t here to save the Democratic Party.
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"Many of us understand the desire to protect a movement that seeks justice. But protecting men who hurt women isn’t the way to do it." Always read @jenishawo.bsky.social, this time on Cesar Chavez: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Protecting a Hero Too Long
The pressure to shield men who hurt women
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“Many of us understand the desire to protect a movement that seeks justice,” @jenishawo.bsky.social writes of the recent revelations about Cesar Chavez. “But protecting men who hurt women isn’t the way to do it.”
Protecting a Hero Too Long
The pressure to shield men who hurt women
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“As a girl, I was taught that one always has to share. And I grew up into a people pleaser,” @jenishawo.bsky.social writes. “Silencing my own needs has always been easier for me than telling someone else no. Was I raising my son to be the exact same way?”
Why I Stopped Forcing My Kid to Share
True generosity can’t be coerced.
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“As a girl, I was taught that one always has to share. And I grew up into a people pleaser,” @jenishawo.bsky.social writes. “Silencing my own needs has always been easier for me than telling someone else no. Was I raising my son to be the exact same way?”
Why I Stopped Forcing My Kid to Share
True generosity can’t be coerced.
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The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Gullible, Cynical America
The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time
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We’re excited to announce two journalists who are becoming staff writers at The Atlantic: @satopol.bsky.social and @jenishawo.bsky.social. More here: www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
The Atlantic Announces Sarah A. Topol and Jenisha Watts as Staff Writers
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"All she could afford to be was grateful." a heartbreaking, personal look at what happens when you're uninsured, by @jenishawo.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Impossible Predicament of the Uninsured
My aunt couldn’t afford to go to the hospital. She ended up there anyway.
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Then Thursday August 21 @ 8p, I and DJ B-Sharp will commemorate the 25th anniversary of e. badu’s Mama’s Gun with a public listening session + discussion. Both events will be at The Eaton with the aid of @mahoganybooks.bsky.social (8/20) and Chuck Levin’s (8/21). www.eventbrite.com/e/a2b-vinyl-...
Come through, y’all!
i augustus durham@imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 12mo agoFor Black August, I am elated to share a two-day collaboration—h/t Aryn Bussey and Nina Ligon—with The Eaton DC: Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social). www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has pressed the NIH to ignore court orders, dismissing NIH lawyers' advice to resume business as usual, @katherinejwu.com reports. As of this week, some institutes and centers are still not issuing any new grants: theatln.tc/MVl9uWmj
Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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“We are now in the second decade of a years-long temper tantrum sparked by the election of Barack Obama—not to mention the failed attempts to elect a woman to succeed him...” @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Ashli Babbitt’s mother and the wife of a notorious insurrectionist moved into a townhouse near @hannarosin.bsky.social’s home in deep-blue Washington, D.C. Getting to know them proved to be a revealing—and surprising—experience.
The Insurrectionists Next Door
Ashli Babbitt’s mother and the wife of a notorious January 6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the right. They are also my neighbors.
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Love this: "A quiet monologue runs through my head at all times. It is this: dinner dinner dinner dinner. The thing about dinner is that you have to deal with it every single night." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill
There’s no such thing as an easy weeknight meal.
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"The courtroom is not designed to be the arbiter of scientific truth." But, for "shaken baby syndrome" diagnoses, it often is. More amazing reporting on this controversial issue from @pamelacolloff.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/shak... #txlege
He Frantically Called 911 to Revive His Infant Son. Now He Could Face 12 Years in Prison.
Exonerations and new science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny whi...
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"In this episode of Radio Atlantic, we make the case for reading books, one memory at a time." Hanna Rosin speaks with Rose Horowitch and other Atlantic writers about the books they read in high school that stuck with them.
Why Reading Books in High School Matters
You’ll understand when you’re older.
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Every year on this day I think of this man, his family, and every person I met in Newtown in December 2012 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Is Anywhere Safe?
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“I’m a big fan of the blues not because they are sad, they’re not, but because they give us a rhythm to keep moving.” From a letter Nikki Giovanni wrote to @jenishawo.bsky.social, in which the poet said she always felt her job "is to move on." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
What Nikki Giovanni Wouldn’t Write About
I had the privilege of editing the poet, who died on Monday. Her biggest lesson: Keep moving forward.
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As an editor, @jenishawo.bsky.social worked with Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday. The poet's most important lesson: Never stop moving forward.
What Nikki Giovanni Wouldn’t Write About
I had the privilege of editing the poet, who died on Monday. Her biggest lesson: Keep moving forward.
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More than a century ago, the United States backed a coup that destroyed Hawai‘i’s sovereign government. What does America owe the Islands now? @adriennelaf.bsky.social reports on the Hawaiians pushing for self-determination: theatln.tc/mMdVYy2u
"Why would a girl with such a wonderful father ever need a second one? Because someone must have dropped Tom on his head as a baby." Glorious @CaitlinPacific essay on Seamus Heaney, her father, poetry, Catholicism, the Troubles, death, and hope. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
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I’m in the middle of about 6 other books, including at least 2 essay collections and a stack of recent magazines I’m behind on, but I couldn’t resist this when I saw it at Kramer’s Books yesterday… edited by Wesley Morris!?
I am forever grateful whenever anyone takes the time to read my work. Thanks again, Jason.
Jason@jasonrhodes.bsky.social · 2y ago@jenishawo.bsky.social I just read your Atlantic essay in The Best American Essays of 2024—I’m completely unqualified to say anything at all about it but I wanted to tell you I’m eagerly awaiting whatever you write next…