Constantine Alexander
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And though the flowers of love be few; Yet let them be divine.
Museum Education Can’t Stop Anti-Semitism After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it. By Graeme Wood. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Museum Education Can’t Stop Anti-Semitism
After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Museum Education Can’t Stop Anti-Semitism After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it. By Graeme Wood. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’. What does fentanyl’s reclassification mean for the White House’s renewed War on Drugs? By Will Gottsegen. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
What does fentanyl’s reclassification mean for the White House’s renewed War on Drugs?
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December 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’. What does fentanyl’s reclassification mean for the White House’s renewed War on Drugs? By Will Gottsegen. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles The president made clear he supports his chief of staff despite her Vanity Fair comments. By Jonathan Lemire and Vivian Salama. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles
The president made clear he supports his chief of staff despite her Vanity Fair comments.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles The president made clear he supports his chief of staff despite her Vanity Fair comments. By Jonathan Lemire and Vivian Salama. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History. The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself. By Anne Applebaum. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Longest Suicide Note in American History. The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself. By Anne Applebaum. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Gov. Newsom unveiled a website tracking Trump’s controversial pardons, including Jan. 6 rioters, drug traffickers and fraudsters, timed with falling California crime statistics. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...
Newsom launches website tracking Trump’s top 10 criminal cronies as new data shows California crime continues to drop | Governor of California
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December 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Gov. Newsom unveiled a website tracking Trump’s controversial pardons, including Jan. 6 rioters, drug traffickers and fraudsters, timed with falling California crime statistics. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...
The Populist Revolt Against Cognitive Elites. The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions By Joseph Heath. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Populist Revolt Against Cognitive Elites
The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions
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December 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The Populist Revolt Against Cognitive Elites. The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions By Joseph Heath. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Widens the Breach The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate. By John Dickerson. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Widens the Breach
The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Trump Widens the Breach The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate. By John Dickerson. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Is Using a Sacred Power for Depraved Purposes. The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people. By Liz Oyer. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Is Using a Sacred Power for Depraved Purposes
The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Trump Is Using a Sacred Power for Depraved Purposes. The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people. By Liz Oyer. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling. The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins. By David Sims. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling
The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling. The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins. By David Sims. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder: This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards. By David A. Graham: Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder
This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder: This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards. By David A. Graham: Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Inside a Flame. A poem by Arthur Sze. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
Inside a Flame
A poem
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December 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Inside a Flame. A poem by Arthur Sze. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
Western monarch butterfly migratory count numbers remain low. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/12/13/w...
Western monarch migratory count numbers remain low
The Xerces Society, an international conservation group, will publish a statewide 2025 count in January.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Western monarch butterfly migratory count numbers remain low. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/12/13/w...
Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care. It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away. By Jonathan Chait. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care
It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care. It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away. By Jonathan Chait. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Genius of Handel’s Messiah. The oratorio is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music. By Jan Swafford. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Genius of Handel’s 'Messiah'
The oratorio is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The Genius of Handel’s Messiah. The oratorio is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music. By Jan Swafford. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Real Reason for the Hong Kong Fire. Don’t blame the bamboo scaffolding. By Timothy McLaughlin. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Real Reason for the Hong Kong Fire
Don’t blame the bamboo scaffolding.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The Real Reason for the Hong Kong Fire. Don’t blame the bamboo scaffolding. By Timothy McLaughlin. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Cruise-ship stowaway owls set for US return after living it up at Spanish resort. (The Guardian allows free access to 20 of its articles monthly.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cruise-ship stowaway owls set for US return after living it up at Spanish resort
Burrowing owls, who boarded cruise ship in Miami, to be returned to US next month after long spell in quarantine
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December 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cruise-ship stowaway owls set for US return after living it up at Spanish resort. (The Guardian allows free access to 20 of its articles monthly.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts. America’s closest allies are among the 42 countries in the visa waiver program targeted by Trump. Wasington Post Editorial Board Opinion. Free Access (Gift) Article. wapo.st/48CqKQQ
Opinion | Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts
America’s closest allies are among the 42 countries in the visa waiver program targeted by Trump.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts. America’s closest allies are among the 42 countries in the visa waiver program targeted by Trump. Wasington Post Editorial Board Opinion. Free Access (Gift) Article. wapo.st/48CqKQQ
Hopeful Images of 2025. Photos that recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us By Alan Taylor. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Hopeful Images From 2025
Year after year, rounding up his news photos of the year has proven to be an exercise in sorting through difficult and disturbing imagery. For more than a decade now, senior editor Alan Taylor has mad...
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December 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Hopeful Images of 2025. Photos that recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us By Alan Taylor. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
The Last MAGA Prisoner. Trump desperately wants Tina Peters released but can’t make it happen without help. By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Last MAGA Prisoner
Trump desperately wants Tina Peters released but can’t make it happen without help.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The Last MAGA Prisoner. Trump desperately wants Tina Peters released but can’t make it happen without help. By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Europe's center is barely holding — and Trump plans to blow it apart. Despite recent election wins for moderates in the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K., the far right is stronger than ever. Free Access Article. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe’s center is barely holding — and Trump plans to blow it apart
Despite recent election wins for moderates in the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K., the far right is stronger than ever.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Europe's center is barely holding — and Trump plans to blow it apart. Despite recent election wins for moderates in the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K., the far right is stronger than ever. Free Access Article. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
From Grexit to Eurogroup chief: Greece’s recovery story. Kyriakos Pierrakakis’ journey from computer scientist to president of the Eurogroup. Free Access Article. www.politico.eu/article/grex...
From Grexit to Eurogroup chief: Greece’s recovery story
Kyriakos Pierrakakis’ journey from computer scientist to president of the Eurogroup.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From Grexit to Eurogroup chief: Greece’s recovery story. Kyriakos Pierrakakis’ journey from computer scientist to president of the Eurogroup. Free Access Article. www.politico.eu/article/grex...
Trump signs executive order aimed at preventing states from regulating AI. Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws. Free Access Article (20 monthly). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump signs executive order aimed at preventing states from regulating AI
Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws
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December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Trump signs executive order aimed at preventing states from regulating AI. Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws. Free Access Article (20 monthly). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Return of MAGA’s Favorite Forbidden Book. What an apocalyptic French novel about a migrant invasion reveals about the worldview of nationalist conservatives By Idrees Kahloon. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Return of MAGA’s Favorite Forbidden Book
What an apocalyptic French novel about a migrant invasion reveals about the worldview of nationalist conservatives
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December 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Return of MAGA’s Favorite Forbidden Book. What an apocalyptic French novel about a migrant invasion reveals about the worldview of nationalist conservatives By Idrees Kahloon. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A Different Kind of Materialism. Tamar Adler’s food writing doubles as a philosophy of kitchen scraps. By Lily Meyer. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
A Different Kind of Materialism
Tamar Adler’s food writing doubles as a philosophy of kitchen scraps.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A Different Kind of Materialism. Tamar Adler’s food writing doubles as a philosophy of kitchen scraps. By Lily Meyer. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Finally!! No More Woke Fonts! Marco Rubio has spoken—get out of here, Calibri! By Alexandra Petri. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Finally!! No More Woke Fonts!
Marco Rubio has spoken—get out of here, Calibri!
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December 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Finally!! No More Woke Fonts! Marco Rubio has spoken—get out of here, Calibri! By Alexandra Petri. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...