
Yoni Appelbaum
@YAppelbaum
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Deputy Executive Editor @TheAtlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity."
Washington, DC
Joined March 2011
1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK:
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How did America cease to be the land of opportunity? We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are only accessible to the wealthy. But in...
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RT @ChrisCarrollDC: .@ElaineJGodfrey with a textbook profile. Shows readers everything they need to see.
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Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.
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RT @jemelehill: My latest column for @TheAtlantic: WNBA opted out of their CBA for good reason — they could see what the investors saw. Her….
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Women’s basketball players are demanding higher pay. That’s what happens when business is booming.
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RT @michaelscherer: Elbridge Colby is a name you should know.
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Elbridge Colby wants the U.S. military to pivot toward Asia, even if it means turning away from Europe and the Middle East.
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RT @patcaldwell: "The lock screen on her phone is a headshot of herself." Great profile by @elainejgodfrey
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Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.
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The greatest who ever got chalk on his coat.
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A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.
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RT @zackstanton: "Crockett is testing out the coarser, insult-comedy-style attacks that the GOP has embraced under Trump, the general idea….
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Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.
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RT @TheAtlantic: The loss of music listings is "the loss of a world," Gabriel Kahane writes. As a young musician in New York, they were his….
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A love letter to music listings
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RT @davidfrum: In @theAtlantic I try to make sense of how a doctrine as seemingly dead and dusty as socialism could make a comeback https:/….
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Capitalism needs better advocates.
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RT @Orgetorix: Donald Trump's Revival of 'Honest Graft'. The president-elect’s insistence that the public interest and his private interest….
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The president-elect’s insistence that the public interest and his private interests are aligned recalls the creed of Tammany Hall.
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RT @nycjim: >>If the president is a Democrat, Trump complains that interest rates are too low. If the president is a Republican, he complai….
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The president doesn’t think the Federal Reserve chair is bad at his job. He objects to the job itself.
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RT @TheAtlantic: “I went into frontline medicine to help people, not to bankrupt them,” writes Sophia Spadafore. “When someone who does not….
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Many Americans get much of their health care from ERs. Defunding this service will bring financial and human ruin.
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RT @dwallacewells: “Perhaps because we’ve become so adept at cooling inside spaces with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of….
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To survive a heating planet, humans need shade—lots of it.
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RT @jonathanchait: Trump doesn't actually think Jerome Powell is bad at his job
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The president doesn’t think the Federal Reserve chair is bad at his job. He objects to the job itself.
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RT @griffwitte: NEW: Read @NickMiroff on the CBP chief who's taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to….
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Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.
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RT @ZephyrTeachout: I see several people are skeptical of laws against price discrimination in grocery. You're not alone, Robert Bork was t….
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How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
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RT @ToluseO: A little personal update: Today is my first day @TheAtlantic. I'm thrilled to be joining some old friends and meeting some bri….
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