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Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Takes Aim at American Institutions
Editor's Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. As Donald Trump nears the end of his first 100 days in office, his administration continues to take aim at many American institutions. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic last night to discuss the administration's stance on the courts, universities, government agencies, and more. Meanwhile, this week Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told voters that 'we are all afraid,' adding that she's anxious about using her voice, 'because retaliation is real.' 'It is so pervasive, what she is talking about,' Mark Leibovich said last night. She's not talking about 'political intimidation like Elon Musk throwing a bunch of money at an opponent or someone being primaried.' He continued, 'She's talking about physical fear.' Murkowski's sentiments are also not isolated, Leibovich added. 'It's been a real hallmark of this era,' he said. 'Governing is supposed to take place by politics, by persuasion, by debate. Authoritarianism is by intimidation, by threat, by violence in some cases.' Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Laura Barrón-López, a White House Correspondent for PBS News Hour; Eugene Daniels, a senior Washington correspondent and incoming co-host of The Weekend at MSNBC; and Mark Leibovich, a staff writer at The Atlantic. Watch the full episode here. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
19-04-2025
- Politics
- Atlantic
Trump Takes Aim at American Institutions
Editor's Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. As Donald Trump nears the end of his first 100 days in office, his administration continues to take aim at many American institutions. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic last night to discuss the administration's stance on the courts, universities, government agencies, and more. Meanwhile, this week Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told voters that 'we are all afraid,' adding that she's anxious about using her voice, 'because retaliation is real.' 'It is so pervasive, what she is talking about,' Mark Leibovich said last night. She's not talking about 'political intimidation like Elon Musk throwing a bunch of money at an opponent or someone being primaried.' He continued, 'She's talking about physical fear.' Murkowski's sentiments are also not isolated, Leibovich added. 'It's been a real hallmark of this era,' he said. 'Governing is supposed to take place by politics, by persuasion, by debate. Authoritarianism is by intimidation, by threat, by violence in some cases.' Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Laura Barrón-López, a White House Correspondent for PBS News Hour; Eugene Daniels, a senior Washington correspondent and incoming co-host of The Weekend at MSNBC; and Mark Leibovich, a staff writer at The Atlantic. Watch the full episode here.
Atlantic
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
The Slow Progress of Baseball
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Baseball, perhaps fittingly for America's pastime, is a game of stubborn tradition and incremental change. This year, the Yankees will allow their players to don beards (and their fans to eat tiramisu out of little helmets). But women remain unable to play serious baseball, no matter how much they adore the sport. My colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany asks in our April magazine issue: 'In a game in which everything matters, in which we who love it wish to see every possible outcome unfold, how can we stomach the absence of women's baseball?' Today's newsletter explores the changes to baseball in recent years, and what has stayed the same. On Baseball Why Aren't Women Allowed to Play Baseball? By Kaitlyn Tiffany Women have always loved America's pastime. It has never loved them back. Read the article. Why Are Baseball Players Always Eating? By Kaitlyn Tiffany America's pastime is a game of snacks. Read the article. Moneyball Broke Baseball By Mark Leibovich But now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it. Still Curious? Goodbye to baseball's most anachronistic rule: 'The New York Yankees have abandoned their half-century prohibition of beards, a policy that was archaic even from its infancy,' Steve Rushin writes. 'Now I find myself strangely, unexpectedly bereft, stroking my own beard in contemplation.' : The iconic Yankees broadcaster John Sterling reminds us that what makes us human cannot be imitated, Yair Rosenberg wrote last year. Other Diversions P.S. Each week, I ask readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. JK, 81, sent this photo taken in Maui in January. I'll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks.
