Emily Bobrow
@EmilyBobrow
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Senior editor @TheAtlantic; Formerly @WSJ, @TheEconomist; bemused observer
New York
Joined October 2012
This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."
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Excited to be joining @TheAtlantic in September!
We’re excited to announce four new members of The Atlantic’s editorial staff: @EmilyBobrow and @katiezez are joining as senior editors; and @lil_smush and @JonLemire join as staff writers. More here:
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An excellent book, as it happens!
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The Inflation Reduction Act has spurred huge investment in America. $165 billion of that investment has gone into red districts, compared to $54 billion of investment in blue districts.
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Four years ago, the effort by Trump and his allies to overturn the election results was chaotic and haphazard. Even his supporters complained it wasn't more effective. "This will have to become another crusade of ours," wrote one conservative scholar.
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GOP donors have given more than $140 million to nearly 50 groups working on election integrity. “This will have to become another crusade of ours,” wrote a fellow at the Claremont Institute.
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Really enjoyed this novel @helencphillips
In Helen Phillips’s latest novel the water tastes like chemicals, the air is eye-stingingly polluted, and many people are out of work, having been replaced by intelligent robots. Its dystopian setting sounds bleak—and plausibly so https://t.co/zV4tx2B8xB 👇
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Please read this powerful piece from @DrEugeniaCheng on her childlessness; many of the comments are thankfully--and rightfully--expressions of gratitude and support!
This was a very taxing piece to write. It will be my last thing in WSJ for a while as my column has come to an end with changes in emphasis for the paper. I am braced for rude and unsupportive comments.
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In @WSJ, #OfBoysAndMen author and American Institute for Boys and Men president @RichardvReeves argues that in this election, male voters will choose which model of #masculinity will take them forward and offers suggestions on how each party can do better.
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After decades of disorienting social and economic change, male voters are about to choose which model of masculinity will take them forward.
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Octavia Butler’s 1993 dystopian novel “Parable of the Sower” begins in July of 2024. Climate change is turning the globe into a hellscape with droughts, fires and calamitous weather events. Racial and class inequities have soared, women’s rights are under threat, and white
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Most shocking chasm heading into conventions: per new @NBCNews poll, just 33% of Dem voters are satisfied w/ their party's presidential nominee, vs. 71% of GOP voters.
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On the Alice Munro revelations, the great @jonathaneig writes: "Is it honest to write a biography that focuses on the art without exploring the mysteries of the artist’s life? Is it responsible? Who does the biographer work for? His subject? His reader?" https://t.co/Zn2FqyNEvR
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Scandalous revelations about Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro offer a reminder that our heroes don’t just deserve scrutiny—in the end, their legacies benefit from it.
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Is dying at home always a good thing? Does it always ensure ease and dignity? I’m very excited to share my debut essay for the Wall Street Journal examining how our healthcare system makes a peaceful death at home out of reach for too many. https://t.co/2xLV1E40lG
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New research classifies the rise in home deaths as progress, but we need to look more closely at what these deaths look like.
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"If Biden loses to Trump, the nation Biden believed in does not outlive him. A different America replaces it, one where the presidency can be contested by violence, with judicially conferred immunity for an attempted seizure of power."
Some have asked whether I wrote all or part of last night's piece in advance. https://t.co/bgzVhHZ6EH Answer: No. My method when I write about something set for a fixed time (SOTU address, etc.) is to try to blank my mind beforehand, so I can see without preconceptions. (thread)
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There’s an excerpt of my book in this week’s @NewYorker. You can pre-order it here
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In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age,...
“It wasn’t normal, what was happening. It wasn’t normal at all.” In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, @embot writes about the summer of 2020—and the end of a relationship.
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Millennial cancer patients’ youth can become a justification to pursue physically devastating and at times ineffective treatment, @SunitaPuriMD writes:
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Physicians who care for younger cancer patients are shying away from hard but necessary conversations.
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And you all should also forego what you're up to (unless you're a surgeon or driving a bus or something) to read this essay on Munro: https://t.co/1XTrBKuGTb
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Fascinating read by @CAKitchener about the Republican women begging state GOP politicians to abandon their crackdowns on abortion, arguing it’s become a political loser. https://t.co/SkYPnjDjQR
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A stunning, heartbreaking look at suicide and how it affects one reporter’s family. Beautifully and bravely written by @zimmerman082.
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After spending years telling myself a story about what I’d missed and what I’d lost, I finally figured out a way forward.
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