There are certainly worse culprits out there, but as a reader of The Atlantic I’ve been fascinated with their often hysterical headlines, many of which will be “nerfed” – have their power reduced – throughout the week.
I figured it would be an interesting exercise to document every single headline from theatlantic.com on August 17th.
- The Fate of the Free World is Hanging in the Balance
- How America Failed to Get Everyone Online
- The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
- What Really Scares Voting Experts About the Postal Service
- The Last Convention
- Dear Therapist: I Love My Girlfriend, but I Asked Her to Move Out
- I’m a Historian. I See Reason to Fear – And to Hope
- The Good Son
- What We’ve Stolen From Our Kids
- Colleges Are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students
- History Will Judge the Complicit
- How the Pandemic Has Changed Us Already
- All the President’s Lies About Coronavirus
- The Prophecies of Q
- What Happens When You Let 1,000 Teenage Boys Run a Government
- Minnesota: Images of the North Star State
- Continent-Size Pressure Waves Are Rippling Through the Earth’s Atmosphere
- Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness
- How Kamala Harris’s Attack on Joe Biden Helped Her
- We Killed the Middle Class. Here’s How We Can Revive It
- The Fun Police Should Stand Down
- Dismiss Minor Misdemeanors During the Pandemic
- ‘Contact Languages’ Don’t Get the Respect They Deserve
- The Constitution Is Perfectly Clear About Citizenship