Anybody having problems with their print subscription to The Atlantic? I haven't been receiving mine for months. I do still have digital access, but sometimes I want to read on how to be a bougie liberal in print.
I've emailed them a few times over the last couple of months, but no reply. I'm currently on hold in the 16th loop of the hold music.
Recently someone I follow boosted a link to an article about why The Atlantic is a godawful magazine. I've read the article now and I highly recommend it.
The Worst Magazine in America, by Nathan J. Robinson
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america
A far-from-exhaustive list of points it makes:
- There is an astonishing lack of editorial oversight apparent in The Atlantic.
- The Atlantic routinely publishes pieces that are unsourced, misleading, and actively deceptive, and ignores experts' attempts to correct the "facts" it publishes.
- Through shoddy journalism, The Atlantic makes right-wing views palatable to a liberal audience.
In Robinson's words, his "basic criticism is that while it presents itself as a magazine of ideas—which makes readers feel as if they are engaging intelligently with important issues—it in fact covers those issues in such a superficial and slipshod way that people are liable to be left with a worse understanding of the issue than when they went in."
“How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia”
by #GarryKasparov
#TheAtlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/04/america-russia-trump-putin/682473
「アメリカがロシア化を避ける方法 」： The Atlantic
「世論調査 、 選挙結果 、そして市場動向 を見ると 、 アメリカ国民は、たとえゆっくりとではあるが、直面する脅威の大きさと本質に気づき始めているようだ。
ドナルド・トランプ大統領とその権力の座にある同盟者たちは、ウラジーミル・プーチンとその取り巻きたちがロシアで築いたような、権威主義的なマフィア国家を築こうとしている。
アメリカの野党は「民主主義の弱体化」や「憲法危機」を叫んでいるが、大部分の議員、活動家、そして政治戦略家たちは、いつも通りの政治活動を行っている。彼らはそうあるべきではない。
プーチンは悪い奴だが、 ロシアの脆弱な民主主義と市民社会を破壊するために彼が行ったことは、きっと…そして、空欄を埋めれば、ロシアの脆弱な民主主義と市民社会を破壊するために彼が行ったことが12個もあるでしょう。その多くは、今日のアメリカでトランプが行っている、あるいはしようとしていることです。 」
的確な分析です。
Although Caldwell is not as well known as other snr #Pentagon ofcls, he has played a critical role as an adviser to #Hegseth.
His importance was underscored in a leaked text chain on #Signal disclosed by #TheAtlantic.
In it, Hegseth named Caldwell as the best staff contact for the #NSC as it prepared for the launch of strikes against the Houthis.
Caldwell had drawn attention…for past views that critics have called #isolationist, but which advocates said sought to right-size America's priorities.
"The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system."
By Anne Applebaum
April 14, 2025, 6 AM ET
(Link around paywall)
I love #TheAtlantic, even when it publishes well-written things I disagree with by authors I don't like, but every now and then it somehow lets some absurd moron write and publish something utterly dogshit, and this might be the second worst example of it I've seen: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/woke-right/681716/?gift=y-oC1QlmgLOUZVvlEoH844Sm5a3hOEVVRPXOOuXv4x4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
What the fuck is this? Absurd misrepresentation of inclusive language and some ludicrous misapprehension leading to the idea of the 'woke right'.
Selon #TheAtlantic , journal de centre gauche , Ce sont en effet les secousses sur le #marché #obligataire qui ont “poussé le président à changer de cap”
#Trump : “J’avais l’œil sur le #marché #obligataire.”
No shit, Sherlock.
“The reactionary fringe has won.”
- David Brooks
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trumpism-maga-populism-power-pursuit/682116/
Via #TheAtlantic @ 7:00an ET on Apr 07, 2025
Last month, Nicholas Gilbert received delivery of #grain for the 1,400 cows he tends at his #dairy farm in #Potsdam, #NewYork, 20 miles from the #Ontario border. The feed came w/ a surprise #tariff of $2,200 tacked on. “We have small margins...I had a contracted price on that grain delivered to my barn. It was supposed to be so much per ton. & they added that tariff right on top because it comes from a #Canadian feed mill"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/recession-tariffs-canada-trump/682297/
Mainstream US Media : Nothing Happened on April 5th - it was a boring day.
Reality: "Yesterday, more than 1,200 demonstrations were held across the country, described by organizers as a “National Day of Action,” against the policies and actions of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk."
Photos: Nationwide Protests Against Trump and Musk
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/04/photos-nationwide-protests-against-trump-and-musk/682320/
#TheAtlantic
#HandsOff
#TheAtlanticRealityReporting
#MainStreamMediaFail
Nach dem #signalgate durch US-Sicherheitsberater Waltz muss man ja mal ein Bisschen auf „The Atlantic“ aufmerksam machen. Hier ein Bericht über die gestern in den USA stattgefundenen Demos gegen die Trump-Regierung: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/protest-washington-hands-off/682317/
Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened #Signalgroupchatleak #Trumpadministration #TheAtlantic #USpolitics #USmilitary #USnews #Media
"Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase."
By Jonathan Haidt
April 11, 2022
#TheAtlantic
(Link around paywall)
Trump, putting all his business acumen into running the world economy, the same way he did his casinos.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/wall-street-trump-tariffs/682304/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Loomer speculated that Wong was responsible for adding #TheAtlantic’s #JeffreyGoldberg, to the group chat “on purpose as part of a foreign opp to embarrass the #Trump administration on behalf of China.”
[insane person]
…Loomer was seated directly across the desk from Trump. Seated next to her was Rep #ScottPerry, a PA congressman who was one of Trump’s biggest allies in his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. Perry had a separate list of staff concerns he wanted to discuss…
