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America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/unilateral-disarmament/684086/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31xBmCh1VmOV2uCP3VL6kTw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p134#a250905p134

Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.
https://www.

One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.

loved everything about this piece about the tragic decline of live music/arts listings except blaming it on poptimism, which feels like a bystander at the consolidation/immolation of independent media (& i'm no poptimist). https://www.

A Love Letter to Music Listings
Publications like Time Out New York were my bible and my road map.

Kash Patel's Challenge Coin Is Perfect for Him (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/kash-patel-military-memento-internet/684456/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfD-vjdwuL1UJPB-1cRyvG6k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p43#a251004p43

Interesting account of how Ukraine is becoming more reliant on themselves to further prosecute the war.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands. ​​​

Source of the Serwer quote:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-military-force-protests/683198/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8Bd55fr-u0fCFGLreoW5atQ

Very good. Gift link, they're should be no paywall.
Fully MAGA-fied Christianity
“Trump and the MAGA movement capitalized on, and then amplified, the problems facing Christian communities, but they did not create them,” @Peter_Wehner argues:
https://w…

Fully MAGA-fied Christianity
Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/maga-hitler-anti-semitism/684078/?gift=Y5UOGK3oJJO3esRHvDP7oaL48gPVGjYarTgx2L5-WNM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p100#a250903p100

Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-nuclear-threat/683748/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweFsucCt1MxiecWXagznU0ww&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p4#a250802p4

Trump's Crime Crackdown Isn't Holding Up in Court (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-crime-crackdown-courts-dc/684059/?gift=DWZS7XsWkZZzV_Qd7Q3wddbFA92ZM35_CGapaemJyT0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p99#a250831p99