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Gilad Edelman

@GiladEdelman

Senior editor @TheAtlantic focusing on political economy. Formerly @wired and @monthly with a very brief stint at the @FTC. For pitches, email me, don't DM me.

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“Black people can celebrate our Africanness without diminishing our Americanness … our understanding of the latter is incomplete if we lose sight of the former.”

I wrote about Kwanzaa for my first The Atlantic joint:

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'The city of Washington, D.C., should seize the Washington Wizards through eminent domain.' Matt Connolly is the sports+public policy journalist America needs theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Amazing to watch the same people who criticized Draymond for punching his teammate in the face now criticizing him for punching an opponent in the face ... the guy just can't win

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Pretty strong signal that inflation expectations are low, nobody signs this in a high-inflation environment. Congratulations Jay Powell

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Corporate America continues to scream 'we are driving inflation by raising prices more aggressively than we did pre-pandemic!!!' while the wise economy-knowers dismiss the possibility as pseudoscience nytimes.com/2023/12/11/bus…

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Agree with this from Jonathan Chait. Stefanik's questioning was demagogic. Universities should enforce codes of conduct, not assume the most sinister interpretation of ambiguous slogans/arguments, and then ban them on that basis
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Agree with this from @jonathanchait. Stefanik's questioning was demagogic. Universities should enforce codes of conduct, not assume the most sinister interpretation of ambiguous slogans/arguments, and then ban them on that basis nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Lee Kovarsky(@lee_kovarsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NUANCE WARNING!

I'm pretty reluctant to weigh in here because of the ecosystemic climate for Jewish identity generally, but it seems like the outrage here is ... probably overdone and *certainly* rewarding bad faith actors.

Take Magill (Penn). She is asked DIRECTLY

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David Leonhardt(@DLeonhardt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here's a lovely discussion of 'Ours Was the Shining Future' in The Atlantic by Rogé Karma -- in which he explains that America's turn away from broad-based prosperity was driven by race and class and more. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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As I like to say, journalism is the original social enterprise.

More than corporate structure though, a puzzle I present my students: why didn't the New York Times become Netflix as soon as it was apparent streaming was more profitable than news?

Corporate values matter.

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Section 230 prevents Twitter itself from being held liable for defamatory tweets, but Elon appears to have created a workaround

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'But that wasn’t as interesting for the political press as the hypothetical story, the one that didn’t happen: a Republican presidential candidate winning over striking autoworkers by supporting their struggle for a better contract. Trump didn’t do that.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Are you irritated by airline point changes?

I explain how it all works The Atlantic

If you want to know more, my new book Why Flying Is Miserable is now available for pre-order!

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The Washington Monthly's annual college rankings are out! Good colleges should not be finishing schools for the wealthy. Our guide reflects the conviction that college should be accessible and civic-minded. (Thread) washingtonmonthly.com/2023/08/27/our…

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'the time that a friend of a friend invited me over to go swimming in their pool before apologizing for assuming that I know how to swim' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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