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If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?

Nguyen is hardly alone in this experience. BookTok, the sprawling and informal literary community on TikTok, has pushed many people to read outside their usual interests. You don’t have to dig deep into X, Reddit, or Instagram to find reading suggestions that would never appear on the year-end lists in newspapers or magazines, or on…

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How Trump’s use of pardon power is breaking the mold

Rep. Henry Cuellar apparently didn’t follow the playbook. Last week, President Donald Trump, a Republican, sent ripples across Capitol Hill when he unexpectedly pardoned the conservative Texas Democrat and his wife, who were indicted in 2024 on corruption charges. Some observers speculated that a party switch – which could boost Republicans’ chances of holding on…

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Fallout From the Signal Report

This week, the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense released a report that found Secretary Pete Hegseth could have put U.S. troops and national security at risk with messages sent in a Signal chat about strikes in Yemen. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss what the report may mean…

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