I've just written about my very intense relationship with my father and how running helped me both connect with him and avoid becoming him. It's also my first article ever for @TheAtlantic . My dad wrote for the magazine in 1967, and i t seems fitting that the first piece

The Weave—President Trump's signature meandering rhetorical style—long endeared him to the MAGA faithful. But as the affordability crisis grows, it's started to work against him. @jdickerson is back in the pages of The Atlantic:

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Section 230 is one of the only things currently standing in the way of foreign governments using private causes of action to censor Americans. Repealing it would be a huge mistake.

The methods Republicans used to employ to stop universal coverage don't work any more

Stunning @NewYorker profile of Oliver Sacks. Many of his most famous stories --- the autistic twins reciting impossible prime numbers; the Parkinson's patient talking of Rilke's panther --- came not from science, but from his own imagination and struggles.

A startlingly rare sentiment in politics today: “I’m going to do what’s right and let the chips fall where they may."

I am preparing MIT Technology Review's infamous list of "worst" technologies of the year. What are 2025's biggest failures, set backs, and misfires but which also hold useful lessons about technology? I think Cybertruck has to be on the list. Tell me your picks👇!!

Historian Thomas Hughes argued that technologies are malleable when young, then harden. Right now we're still shaping AI, or at least it is being shaped by our institutions, norms & use cases Eventually these systems build a momentum of their own. That is why choices now matter

Wow. In the face of bomb threats, swatting, and intimidation from their own party, GOP lawmakers in Indiana just voted against a redistricting plan backed by Trump. “I’m going to do what’s right and let the chips fall where they may." https://t.co/q7KoLN5h0x

Exclusive: Disguised in a wig and slipping through military checkpoints, this is the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s perilous escape from Venezuela

When @nxthompson runs, mind and matter briefly become one, a physical activity becomes metaphysical! That’s how he describes it in his great new book, “The Running Ground.” The book isn’t just for runners — I loved the way he shows how prioritizing things that allow us to be in

"I refuse to be intimidated." Today, Indiana Republicans might do something that few others in the GOP have dared to do this year: Defy Trump. My piece from Indianapolis:

.@tonydokoupil has been named anchor of the @CBSEveningNews. Starting Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, he will usher in an ambitious new era for America’s longest-running nightly newscast. In his first month, Dokoupil will get out from behind his desk and meet viewers in cities and towns

As Ukraine strikes yet another tanker in the Black Sea, read @shustry on what the campaign hopes to achieve.

I ran the fastest marathon of my life at age 44. Not the same thing as playing QB against the Texans. But I'll definitely be rooting for Philip Rivers.

One of my favourite holiday traditions: sharing some of the books I loved most this year:

American farmers voted for Trump. They should not be exempted from the cost of his harmful policies. April 2, 2025.

Former GOP senator @JeffFlake: "Citizens can support firm action while still holding on to their humanity. Death inflicted on the helpless is never an act of strength; it is what remains when strength forgets its purpose."

“He told me he was once an asset for the CIA, and had worked on “big ops.” He wanted to rekindle his relationship with the agency ... If the CIA didn’t welcome [him] back in from the cold, he would expose how the CIA operated inside Iran.” If you read one thing today, it should

I've waited nearly ten years to tell this story: In 2016, I developed a source in Iranian intelligence named Mohammad Hossein Tajik. He told me he came from a politically connected family. That he had led Iran's cyber army. And that he had secretly worked for the CIA. 🧵

🚨 Our Western States Endurance Run 2025 Case-study on Kilian Jornet is published in Journal of Applied Physiology! 🚨 @kilianj We captured the first in-race, comprehensive physiological profile of a world-class ultra-endurance athlete.

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