Editor’s Note: Read Oliver Munday’s new short story “Getting Up.” “Getting Up” is a new story by Oliver Munday, an associate creative director for The Atlantic. To mark the story’s publication, Munday and Katherine Hu, an assistant editor for the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
“Steve.”There is a pause.“Steve.”The tiny voice is adamant, frustrated.“Steeeeeeeeve.”The man does not look up.“Steve. Steve. Steve,” she chants.It is early—always early.Carter, his daughter, laughs. “You’re Steve.”That his name is Haiden has ceased to matter. He would love, simply, to go by Dad, or Daddy, but since her third birthday weeks ago, Carter has been stubborn—or dedicated, depending on his vantage.
The first Harry Potter film initially depicts the night Harry learns he’s a wizard like a scene from a horror movie. Harry and the disagreeable Dursleys—his uncle, aunt, and cousin—have escaped to a cottage on a remote island, attempting to outrun the letters alerting Harry to his magic. But the messenger arrives anyway, in the form of a half-giant named Hagrid.
While it declined to lift the injunction, the Indiana Supreme Court did agree to Attorney General Todd Rokita’s request to take the case and scheduled oral arguments for January.
Amid confusion and fatigue, only a fraction of eligible Americans have gotten the new Covid-19 booster.
The state’s medical sector is campaigning in unprecedented ways, motivated by abortion and concerns about their profession.
The ruling means that abortions can again take place in Arizona, at least for now, unless the state Supreme Court steps in.
It’s a rare moment for a Fed chair to toss aside all political considerations and ignore frantic investors.
The Fed’s interest rate hikes have fueled market turmoil by boosting the value of the dollar and feeding higher borrowing costs.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation.
Despite the signs of moderating price increases, inflation remains far higher than many Americans have ever experienced and is keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve.
The plan touted by the U.S. Treasury secretary aims to diminish the Kremlin’s revenue while preserving the global oil supply.
Russia launched a fourth day of missile strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities and towns Thursday, targeting Ukraine’s electricity systems and leaving many areas without power. The escalated attacks come after President Vladimir Putin had accused Ukraine of blowing up a key bridge connecting Russia to Crimea last week. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn Russia’s annexation of four territories seized from Ukraine.
The Donald Trump loyalist and rival Mandela Barnes were asked to say something nice about each other. Barnes obliged but Johnson went on the attack.
Politicians scrambling to come up with name and motive behind leaked recording of shocking racism during meeting a year ago that led to resignation of City Council president.
Trump continued to fan the flames Jan. 6 even though the “Justice Department and Mr. Trump’s own campaign repeatedly told him that his fraud claims were without basis,” the newspaper noted.
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Friday brought us a debate between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-supported domestic abuser, conservative Christian family values hypocrite Herschel Walker. It has been a roller coaster ride. There will likely be volumes written about every bizarre half-coherent statement made by Walker but we are going to focus on just one.
And this one fun moment was when Sen.
Independent candidate Mike Itkis, who’s running against Rep. Jerry Nadler, said he’s “kind of a nerd who doesn’t like to be the center of attention if I can avoid it.
“Unless you’re eating right, insulin is doing you no good,” Walker, the GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, said in Friday’s debate against Raphael Warnock.
For the Oath Keepers now on trial for charges of seditious conspiracy, some of the largest hurdles defendants Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Thomas Caldwell, Kenneth Harrelson, and Jessica Watkins must clear are those the Justice Department has erected through a staggering number of evidentiary text messages, emails, social media posts, group chats, handwritten notes, speeches, or podcast appearances that flowed throughout the extremist network for weeks ahead of, on, and after Jan.
Republicans and the right-wing media are in full swing with a tactic to powerfully bind their followers to them and to each other through a sense that only they are reasonable and the rest of the world is spinning out of control.
It’s damn difficult just five weeks from Election Day to make a national policy move that is not only wildly popular but that also breaks through to the masses.
But that’s exactly what President Joe Biden appears to have done with his early steps to decriminalize marijuana announced early last week.
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The final hearing of the House January 6 Committee made clear that a duly elected and sworn president of the United States tried to overthrow the constitutional order. When are we going to act on that knowledge?But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
The new crew arrived at the International Space Station last week, all smiles and floating hair. There was, as usual, a little welcome ceremony, with heartfelt remarks from the newcomers streamed live for the people they left behind on Earth. A few of the astronauts floated above the others and turned upside down, hanging like bats, so that their beaming faces would fit into the frame.
About halfway into Park Chan-wook’s new film, Decision to Leave, a woman reaches into a man’s pocket to find a stick of lip balm. The two of them are alone, visiting a temple amid a downpour. She silently removes the cap, rolls the wheel to expose the tube, and applies it onto his chapped lips. He’s shocked at first, almost reluctant, but she smears away with quick, confident strokes. Then she smiles, as if to say, There. That’s better.
Earlier this week, John Fetterman sat down with NBC News for one of the defining television segments of the year. “Unlike any political interview I’ve ever done,” Dasha Burns, the NBC reporter who met with him, tweeted. Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, suffered a stroke in May. During this, his first on-camera interview since then, he relied on closed-captioning to process Burns’s questions.
For the first time in my adult life, there is a genuine sense of decay in Britain—a realization that something has been lost that will be difficult to recover, something more profound than pounds and pence, political personalities, or even prime ministers. Over the past three weeks, the U.K.
During the House select committee hearing Thursday, Representative Jamie Raskin revealed never-before-seen footage from January 6 of top lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, scrambling to stop the violence and making pleas for law enforcement and military support. Some Republicans had previously accused Pelosi of failing to call the National Guard to protect the Capitol, but the footage aired on Thursday sheds new light on her actions.
During Thursday’s hearing, the January 6 House committee aired video evidence showing how Donald Trump repeatedly made false claims about voter fraud that directly contradicted facts presented to him by top advisers. “These actions, taken directly by the president himself, made it clear what his intentions were: to prevent the orderly transfer of power,” said Congressmember Elaine Luria.