The Atlantic in Headlines

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

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