The Atlantic: Ideas

"Should we come across something enraging, the impulse is to boycott it or pour lighter fluid on it, or to otherwise—through Twitter or Instagram—destroy it." @alexwagner on Colin Kaepernick, Steve Bannon, and national fury:https://theatln.tc/3lAMGfj4 

With Honor, a nonpartisan group, is backing veterans running for office. @JamesFallows argues Democrats and Republicans alike “will be better off with a broader draw of future leaders who understand service above self as more than an abstraction.”https://theatln.tc/ndanMmEk 

Why did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former president, tweet in praise of Colin Kaepernick? He’s using American social conflicts to justify his own country’s punishment of dissent, argues @NPRinskeep:https://theatln.tc/46OJZ9QZ 

“If, as a farmer, you are not going to raise chickens for one of the big players, who are you going to raise them for? How are you going to get them to market?” @AnnieLowrey on the giant corporations that leech taxpayer support from small farms:https://theatln.tc/KvwHAYFw 

“Not since the end of Reconstruction has the U.S. government been so firmly committed to a single, coherent program uniting a politics of ethnonationalism with unfettered corporate power,” writes @AdamSerwer:https://theatln.tc/NpvOWBUi 

The Ideas section has officially launched! “At a moment when so many people are engaging in political debate by talking past each other, Ideas will be a place where writers of varied persuasions engage one another in good faith,” writes @JeffreyGoldberg:https://theatln.tc/lmXD7t5R 

“If English had not changed in exactly these kinds of ways forever, we'd all be speaking the language of Beowulf.” The linguist @JohnHMcWhorter on why English speakers need to accept the singular "they":https://theatln.tc/BJRzrUCk 

Some white nationalists have suffered consequences, but their goal of inciting white panic is working. Their ideology, as @AdamSerwer points out, “continues to be championed by the president himself.”https://theatln.tc/BTgoebhW 

Parents should talk to their kids about porn, argues @nsingh7: “In the absence of these conversations—both at home and at school—kids may lack the critical tools to make sense of the messages they’re frequently hearing and seeing on screens.”https://theatln.tc/DQMwr4I0 

“It seems almost too strange to be true”: @mikercarpenter reports on Russian efforts to undermine democracy using fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs:https://theatln.tc/9otxo28s 

What would happen if Trump said the N-word? Your reaction would matter, writes @MattThompson: “As individuals, the only personal anchors we can have in this chaos are not society’s rules, but our own principles.”https://theatln.tc/NDUZx9PB 

Could legalization be causing an increase in pot addiction? “The condition remains misunderstood, discounted, and strangely invisible, even as legalization and white-marketization pitches ahead,” warns @AnnieLowrey:https://theatln.tc/dpmpbUTJ 

What fate awaits Trump at the end of the Mueller investigation? The answer might lie in none other than Macbeth, writes @EliotACohen:https://theatln.tc/hhqNyTkK 

“The American press corps finds itself on the ropes because it allowed a nearly 50-year campaign of attacks inspired by the chair of Fox News to go unanswered.” @chucktodd thinks it’s time for journalists to fight back:https://theatln.tc/psPBGAi4