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The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine founded in Boston in 1857 by a group of writers that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell (who would become its first editor). Originally a monthly publication, the magazine, subscribed to by 425,000 readers, now publishes ten times a year and features articles in the fields of political science and foreign affairs, as well as book reviews. (...) For all but its recent existence, The Atlantic has been known as a distinctively ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Medium audience (100-500K) (English)
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The Atlantic Monthly Group
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Kaizar Campwala
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Dec 25, 2006 - 11:18 AM PST
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America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jobs Numbers
(Blog Post) So headline unemployment now stands at 10.2%, higher than forecast. Another 10 million or so workers are working "part time for economic reasons", meaning they want to work ...via NewsRack -
It Doesn't Mean Squat
(Blog Post) Along with tarot cards and goat entrails, a lot of people believe they can divine hidden meaning from the results of off-year elections, like the ones in Virginia, New York ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Lethal Politics Of The Opt-Out Public Option
(Blog Post) I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention. But imagine for a moment that the opt-out public option passes and becomes law (I give it a 65 percent chance at this point). ...via Memeorandum -
Much Worse Than I Expected
(Blog Post) The president gave a speech he could have given at any point in the last three years. No one in that room could disagree with any of the things he said. I sure don't (with the ...via Tom Friedman -
The Olympic Spirit
(Blog Post) I didn't think it was a good idea for Obama to go to Copenhagen given the intense policy questions he as to address right now. It seemed a trivial matter to me compared to two ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
The Story Behind the Story
With journalists being laid off in droves, savvy political operatives have stepped eagerly into the breach. What’s most troubling is not that TV-news producers mistake their ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Washington Post's Support For Torture
(Blog Post) In the latest release from those in the Bush administration and CIA who authorized and supported America's torture of prisoners of war, we get the following story today in the ...via Google News -
How American Health Care Killed My Father
Like every grieving family member, I looked for someone to blame for my father’s death. But my dad’s doctors weren’t incompetent—on the contrary, his hospital ...Posted by Walter Cox -
I was wrong
I said two weeks ago that I thought today's communications systems had caught up with people who invented facts. I was wrong.via Jay Rosen -
Let's mark this moment in the health debate as it happens
(Blog Post) ... it is striking to come back -- from the world of controlled media and not-always-accurate "official truth" in China -- and see the world's most mature democracy, informed ...via Jay Rosen
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North and South in the Republican Party
(Blog Post) Rural areas have a farmer's contempt for welfare, and the entire upstate region knows too well that the taxes and regulations imposed by the rich downstate voters are ...via Fair Spin -
The Media Death Spiral
(Blog Post) I think we're witnessing the end of the newspaper business, full stop, not the end of the newspaper business as we know it. The economics just aren't there. At some point, ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Olympia's 'Betrayal'
For weeks, as the Senate Finance Committee moved toward a final vote on a health care reform bill, public attention focused sharply on a single member of that committee, ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Does the Flu Vaccine Matter?
"What if flu vaccines do not protect people from dying—particularly the elderly, who account for 90 percent of deaths from seasonal flu? And what if the expensive antiviral ...via Tim O'Reilly -
All Evidence to the Contrary
One hundred years ago this month, two intrepid explorers returned from the Arctic reaches and declared that they had reached the North Pole. Not together, but on competing ...Posted by Doug Greer -
A TiVo Challenge: Watching ObamaVision on a Sunday Morning
Kristol and Obama didn't have a lot in common ideologically but were united by a reflexive penchant for the systematic and analytical. Coming from different ends of the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Life In (and After) Our Great Recession
Dashed hopes, less sex, even more Sisyphean labor for women—what the histories of the Depression era tell us about middle-class families in crisis, both then and now.Posted by David Fox -
Why I Love Al Jazeera
Outlets such as CNN and the BBC don’t cover foreign news so much as they cover the foreign extensions of Washington’s or London’s collective obsessions. And Al Jazeera, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Rise of the Professional Blogger
Today, the romantic notion that solitary, untamed bloggers are running the Web is more fantasy than fact—nearly as apocryphal as old myths about stoic Western sheriffs ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Benefits of Vacation
(Blog Post) When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we’d previously suppressed. Furthermore, this more relaxed ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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