I can’t believe it. Both the Canes and Knicks in their finals. Wow.
Michael Leibel
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senior editor for @theatlantic.com | opinions are my own and bad | UNC 2014
They should allow Gary, Ron and Keith to drink in the booth
A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors, according to multiple people familiar with the request. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job
The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Since hush puppies count as bread I have a vastly different (and under-researched) answer than @caity.bsky.social here
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
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Cash hasn't killed caring or quality in college ball. My latest after that stunner of a @ncaa.bsky.social Sweet 16, looking forward to #FinalFour www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
College Basketball Is Not Dead
Nostalgists worried that giving players more rights would ruin the game. This year’s NCAA tournament is proving them wrong.
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I will read everything Cullen Murphy writes, obviously, and this one is particularly lovely. Not to be missed: 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 all of the economic evolutions in the NCAA, the qualities of a championship team haven’t changed," @sallyjenx.bsky.social writes
The Lesson of a Thrilling March Madness
Nostalgists worried that giving athletes more rights would ruin college sports. This year’s NCAA basketball tournament is proving them wrong.
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Tottenham Hotspur owners Daniel Levy and Joe Lewis turned a mid-table football team into a European heavyweight. Now the partnership is collapsing spectacularly — just as the club faces being dumped from the Premier League. Read more: bloom.bg/4bVPG5Z 📷: AMA/Corbis via Getty Images
My favorite comment on Elizabeth Bruenig's latest Atlantic story: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The wisdom of the 5:30 am diaper package. Take note, UNC Athletics.
After working at Bloomberg for eight years, it's been very difficult to adjust to a Terminal-less world. News alerts and stock-watching just feel different. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/bloo...
Finance Bros to Tech Bros: Don’t Mess With My Bloomberg Terminal
Some spend more time with the computer system than they do with their spouse. So when techies declared it “cooked,” it was war.
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“The pattern is everywhere: Condition people to rely on the system. Erode their vigilance. Then, when something breaks, point to the terms of service and blame them for not paying attention.”
My Self-Driving Car Crash
The Tesla was driving perfectly—until it wasn’t.
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Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10,000 to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom that's warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
In which @elcush.bsky.social explains why scarcity is in demand for companies (and uses variations of the word “drop” 23 times in doing so):
The Highly Exclusive Way That Everybody Shops Now
When everything’s a drop, what’s the point of a drop?
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Exclusive: HSI, a branch of DHS that usually investigates drug cartels and human-trafficking networks, is probing the 2020 election results in Arizona, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Nick Miroff report.
Arizona Is Now at the Center of Election Investigations
Both the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are probing the results of the 2020 election in Arizona.
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Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Central Lie of Prediction Markets
Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.
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Trump is burning through missile stockpiles as if the inventories were endless. And they aren’t. And China and Russia are watching. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The US Has Enough Missiles for This War But Not the Next One
The decline of missile stockpiles, which spurred the Department of Defense’s arm-twisting in January for Lockheed Martin Corp. and RTX Corp. to boost production, is worsening by the day.
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While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.” “I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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This @tyrangiel.bsky.social story has everything: the importance of the BLS, the one tech leader that worried CEOs will talk with candidly, and the deepest challenge AI poses outside of jobs
America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?
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This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
‘Together, We Are America’
Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.
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The Bad Bunny halftime show immediately chased by the AI slop Svedka ad was incredible whiplash
