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theatlantic.com > technology > 2026 > 04 > ai-industry-self-improving-bots > 686686

The AI Industry Wants to Automate Itself

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (45+ words) The AI Industry Wants to Automate Itself'The Atlantic Silicon Valley is in a frenzy over bots that can build themselves. Read: Do you feel the AGI yet? Read: AI agents are taking America by storm Read: Inside the dirty, dystopian…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 04 > hegseths-war-on-americas-military > 686676

Hegseth’s War on America’s Military

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (89+ words) Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people. Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people. Why were these men fired while U.S. forces are fighting overseas? The Defense Department has given no official reason…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 04 > pam-bondi-trump-attorney-general > 686673

Trump’s Purge May Be Just Beginning

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (182+ words) After Pam Bondi's ouster, other top administration officials could be in jeopardy. "No one can succeed in this job," someone close to the White House mused to us. "Why would anyone want this job?" Only someone with "unbridled ambition," the…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 04 > conservative-intellectual-right-influencers > 686630

The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It’s Made

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (207+ words) Conservatives are criticizing influencers for going too far. And today, many of the conservative cognoscenti are again fed up with the right-wing hoi polloi. Read: Nick Fuentes's strategy is working Read: "We need to do McCarthyism to the tenth power…...

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theatlantic.com > science > 2026 > 04 > stardust-solar-radiation-management > 686664

Who Gets to Block the Sun?

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (234+ words) Who Gets to Block the Sun?The Atlantic Stardust sold geoengineering to investors. Now it needs to sell it to the public. The documents are grand in their language and intricate in details. But neither document addresses the two key…...

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theatlantic.com > ideas > 2026 > 04 > trump-iran-war-speech > 686663

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (173+ words) His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran. Americans have been waiting for their president and commander in chief to address the nation and explain why the country is at war. For weeks, Donald Trump…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 04 > congress-government-shutdown-tsa > 686653

The Anger Trailing Congress Around the Country

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (100+ words) Even TMZ is channeling the national discontent. "It's a failure of everyone," Representative David Schweikert, a Republican who represents a politically divided district in Arizona, told us. Trump did alleviate one pain point for the public last week by declaring…...

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theatlantic.com > magazine > 2026 > 05 > iran-us-israel-war-democracy-women > 686583

The Heartbreak of Hoping for a Democratic Iran

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (591+ words) The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran One day I watched a bus disgorge a troop of uniformed Basij militiamen at an intersection in central Tehran. "Who are they?" I asked Pardis. "Oh," she said. "They're a youth group....

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 03 > four-ends-iran-war > 686627

Four Ways the Iran War Could End

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (899+ words) Trump has options to end the war with Iran, but they all come with serious liabilities. President Trump clearly wants out'and soon. Trump'as his advisers repeatedly remind the public'has options. He is sending ground forces to the Gulf at the…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 03 > iran-war-trump-maga > 686571

Iran Has Broken the Trump Coalition

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (247+ words) How many times can a coalition crack before it shatters? The evolving views of Schulz and others in this cohort are notable because they represent a reversal of support for the president. Their discontent had been mounting since even before…...