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“I always had this feeling that some of those lion scenes look too real to have been just copied.” @katarinazimmer reports for @SAPIENS_org on the quest to find Europe's lions.http://on.theatln.tc/s55kC7z 

"Proponents of draconian law enforcement will happily fill any vacuum, and voters will sideline any faction that doesn’t offer a plausible remedy for a growing problem,"@conor64 writes:http://on.theatln.tc/08W1C1K 

Spy-themed entertainment has ballooned over the past two decades, becoming the predominant way for Americans to understand the intelligence agencies that serve them, @AmyZegart writes:http://on.theatln.tc/Jn5tvEL 

"Do you remember how / once you liked to kneel looking / out of the back window / while your father was driving ... as you watched the world appear": Read a poem by W. S. Merwin, published in The Atlantic in 2002:http://on.theatln.tc/fsw1FE0 

A big mismatch in the world’s energy plans could lead fossil-fuel prices to keep rising, @yayitsrob writes:http://on.theatln.tc/UAoxmlS 

Vaccine + vaccine + vaccine + infection = … surely a reasonable amount of safety, right? @KatherineJWu reports on the weirdness of the immunological math.http://on.theatln.tc/HH10O39 

We have to talk about plastic. It dominated the last century and will dominate this one as a leading cause of climate change—not because anyone wants more of the stuff, but because the logic of manufacturing demands that it be made, writes @rebecca_altman.http://on.theatln.tc/p1K6TbH 

In “The Tender Bar,” the acting is good but the film can’t find a compelling hook. The same is true for most of George Clooney’s directorial attempts, @davidlsims writes.http://on.theatln.tc/eU8nmzw 

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” might embolden studios to embrace theaters again. But the film’s success isn’t helping sell tickets for other movies, @davidlsims writes.http://on.theatln.tc/bktsJjL 

In his latest newsletter, @conor64 rounds up reader responses about this stage of the pandemic. “Many of you are anxious, frustrated, and incredulous or even despairing as to how others are behaving––but you’re not of like mind,” he writes:http://on.theatln.tc/HYUuVdo 

One year on, world leaders facing reelection are looking to Donald Trump’s playbook for how they too can sow doubt in the democratic process, and U.S. diplomats have lost credibility as liberal democracy’s defenders, @YasmeenSerhan reports.http://on.theatln.tc/N8hCQM5 

In the new Venezuela, "games of chance substitute for oil wells and the image of Bolívar has been replaced by the face of a new liberating hero: Benjamin Franklin," @willieneuman writes:http://on.theatln.tc/5ScgK4S 

The country is making familiar mistakes anew, as it scrambles to adjust pandemic guidance in light of skyrocketing case counts, @mimbsy writes in the latest Atlantic Daily.http://on.theatln.tc/oLW1G2r 

"To the extent that a left-right divide is still meaningful, it matters much more on race, identity, and the nature of progress than it does on business regulation, markets, and income redistribution," @shadihamid writes:http://on.theatln.tc/qQsy2Pz 

"It seems to me that if Britain is to survive, it has to believe that there is such a thing as Britain and act as though that is the case," @TomMcTague writes.http://on.theatln.tc/z2ZI5vs 

Ghost stories allow erased voices a say, writes @colindickey. In these eight haunted tales, ghosts demand witness, accountability, or restitution.http://on.theatln.tc/V5OqBIL 

The director-writer Maggie Gyllenhaal spoke with @shirklesxp about her film, "The Lost Daughter," and the secret shame that many mothers carry:http://on.theatln.tc/nhdNMjX 

Stop wasting COVID tests, writes @BenMazer. Amid a national shortage, those at lowest risk from the disease should be cutting back.http://on.theatln.tc/7yMtw3n 

"Republicans’ new rumblings about reform may just be a cynical feint. But Democrats should take the offer to fix the [Electoral Count Act] anyway," @GrahamDavidA writes:http://on.theatln.tc/fX3giSg