Gilad Edelman
@giladedelman.bsky.social
Senior editor, The Atlantic
Numbers are simply too big now: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Humans Can’t Wrap Their Minds Around This Economy
And that’s a problem for American society.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Numbers are simply too big now: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Email in 2010: Long heartfelt letter from your study abroad pen pal
Email in 2025: "Reminder to please give feedback on your experience using our platform to pay your dentistry bill"
Email in 2025: "Reminder to please give feedback on your experience using our platform to pay your dentistry bill"
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Email in 2010: Long heartfelt letter from your study abroad pen pal
Email in 2025: "Reminder to please give feedback on your experience using our platform to pay your dentistry bill"
Email in 2025: "Reminder to please give feedback on your experience using our platform to pay your dentistry bill"
Companies like OpenAI say their chatbots are optimized to be useful, not to keep you hooked. Totally coincidentally, they pose endless follow-up prompts to keep the conversation going. By @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
How chatbots keep you talking
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September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Companies like OpenAI say their chatbots are optimized to be useful, not to keep you hooked. Totally coincidentally, they pose endless follow-up prompts to keep the conversation going. By @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I would really like to know what editorial judgments led to the choice of wording here
August 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I would really like to know what editorial judgments led to the choice of wording here
Great reporting here www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
How One Company Maintained a Monopoly on U.S. Fire Retardant
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August 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Great reporting here www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
Ground meat implies the existence of sky meat
July 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ground meat implies the existence of sky meat
Seems like a bit of a constitutional issue to suppose that the sitting president can sue people and news organizations in his individual capacity in federal district court.
July 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Seems like a bit of a constitutional issue to suppose that the sitting president can sue people and news organizations in his individual capacity in federal district court.
It's interesting how some people act as if breaking up a company (say, Google) is akin to a death sentence, but out in the real world, corporate juggernauts choose to break themselves up all the time
July 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's interesting how some people act as if breaking up a company (say, Google) is akin to a death sentence, but out in the real world, corporate juggernauts choose to break themselves up all the time
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🧵 Earlier this year, I traveled to East Asia for a story about whether South Korea and Japan will pursue nuclear weapons as China continues its nuclear build-up and the U.S. becomes a (much) less reliable ally.
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The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double
As American power recedes, South Korea, Japan, and a host of other countries may pursue the bomb.
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July 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🧵 Earlier this year, I traveled to East Asia for a story about whether South Korea and Japan will pursue nuclear weapons as China continues its nuclear build-up and the U.S. becomes a (much) less reliable ally.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The greatest freestyle rapper of all time is a YouTuber named Harry Mack, who had the misfortune of coming up at a time when people don't really care about freestyling anymore. But he has essentially perfected the form.
July 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The greatest freestyle rapper of all time is a YouTuber named Harry Mack, who had the misfortune of coming up at a time when people don't really care about freestyling anymore. But he has essentially perfected the form.
I enjoyed MATERIALISTS aside from the acting, writing, and directing.
June 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I enjoyed MATERIALISTS aside from the acting, writing, and directing.
"Listen: Blake Masters is a creepy weirdo," Chris Murphy told me, "but a lot of the stuff he was getting into in 2022—about the emptiness of American life when all that matters is how much you buy and how good a consumer you are—really, it spoke to me.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
What Chris Murphy Learned From the New Right
The standard-issue Northeast progressive wants to take the Democratic Party down a populist path.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Listen: Blake Masters is a creepy weirdo," Chris Murphy told me, "but a lot of the stuff he was getting into in 2022—about the emptiness of American life when all that matters is how much you buy and how good a consumer you are—really, it spoke to me.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Weird to think, as I approach middle age, that I have spent just over 50 percent of my adult life living in the Trump era www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Decade of Golden-Escalator Politics
It was here that Donald Trump descended into American politics.
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June 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Weird to think, as I approach middle age, that I have spent just over 50 percent of my adult life living in the Trump era www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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"My article, titled 'Year of the Pigskin,' was natural Hollywood bait," Christopher Beam writes. "Now a Chinese studio appeared to have simply lifted the idea":
How I Accidentally Inspired a Major Chinese Motion Picture
A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports. Now it’s a movie with a very different message.
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June 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"My article, titled 'Year of the Pigskin,' was natural Hollywood bait," Christopher Beam writes. "Now a Chinese studio appeared to have simply lifted the idea":
This is quite the yarn by @chrisbeam.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Zany Sports Movie That Explains U.S.-China Relations
A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through football. Now it’s a major Chinese motion picture—with a very different message.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is quite the yarn by @chrisbeam.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It seems bad that higher interest rates, a tool meant to reduce inflation, mechanically cause inflation to increase in certain very important categories www.axios.com/2025/06/02/a...
Why rents are rising again
U.S. renters face higher costs as construction stalls, Redfin says.
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June 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It seems bad that higher interest rates, a tool meant to reduce inflation, mechanically cause inflation to increase in certain very important categories www.axios.com/2025/06/02/a...
One of many things I learned from this article: one of Trump's phone backgrounds is an image of HIS OWN FACE www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.
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June 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
One of many things I learned from this article: one of Trump's phone backgrounds is an image of HIS OWN FACE www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
What would we do without philosophers?
May 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What would we do without philosophers?
Accusing our opponents of "ignoring tradeoffs" is really hot right now — I wonder when we'll go back to just saying they're wrong?
May 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Accusing our opponents of "ignoring tradeoffs" is really hot right now — I wonder when we'll go back to just saying they're wrong?
"A critical mass of the nation’s politicians, news outlets, and major brands regularly post content for free to the exclusive streaming platform for the Ye song 'Heil Hitler.'"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout
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May 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"A critical mass of the nation’s politicians, news outlets, and major brands regularly post content for free to the exclusive streaming platform for the Ye song 'Heil Hitler.'"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/
It's good to read the text of an executive order before publishing an article about it in a leading newspaper
May 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's good to read the text of an executive order before publishing an article about it in a leading newspaper
"The jobs that we lost to China 20 years ago: We’re not getting those back," Autor says. "China doesn’t even want those jobs anymore. They are losing them to Vietnam, and they aren’t upset about it."
This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.
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April 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"The jobs that we lost to China 20 years ago: We’re not getting those back," Autor says. "China doesn’t even want those jobs anymore. They are losing them to Vietnam, and they aren’t upset about it."
This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.
www.theatlantic.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Trump's big "pause" can't undo the damage from swinging back and forth on tariff policy, and also, the average tariff level is actually higher now www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
April 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Trump's big "pause" can't undo the damage from swinging back and forth on tariff policy, and also, the average tariff level is actually higher now www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...