Adrienne LaFrance
Before joining The Atlantic in 2014, LaFrance was an investigative reporter for several local and national news organizations, covering politics, technology, and media.
She is a former reporter at WBUR, Hawaii Public Radio, Honolulu Weekly, Honolulu Civil Beat, and Nieman Journalism Lab. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and several other newspapers and magazines.
The Coming Humanist Renaissance
We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Humanity’s Enduring Obsession With the Apocalypse
No matter how many times the world doesn’t end, people will declare the end is near.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe. Source: Gerard Julien / … The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism
Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
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Matteo Giuseppe Pani; Source: Getty Welcome to Time-Travel Thursdays
A newsletter from The Atlantic about the history of ideas
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Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Albert Brooks Everlasting
A conversation with the legendary comedian and filmmaker about what annoys him, how you know when something is funny, and his theory about John Lennon
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Video by Adrienne LaFrance Hawaii Is a Warning
The world doesn’t need more reminders that climate change is accelerating. But we’re going to keep getting them.
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Peter Garritano for The Atlantic The Elegant, Utterly Original Comedy of Alex Edelman
A conversation with the comedian on writing for laughs, the jokes he won’t tell, and the best advice he’s gotten from his comedic heroes
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Illustration by Paul Spella* The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.
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Eloisa Lopez / Reuters / Redux The Energizer Bunny of Nobel Laureates
Maria Ressa is focused on three things: avoiding prison, fixing the entire internet, and saving democracy.
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Shutterstock; The Atlantic Elon Musk Accidentally Bought a Casino
Twitter’s new owner doesn’t seem to grasp what he’s purchased.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Liberty No More
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the very definition of what it means to be American will change for women and girls in the United States.
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Vasya Kolotusha The 12 Most Unforgettable Descriptions of Food in Literature
Haruki Murakami’s stir fry, Maurice Sendak’s chicken soup with rice—only the most gifted writers have made meals on the page worth remembering.
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Seth Herald / Redux America Is Running Out of Time
A reader’s guide to The Atlantic’s coverage of a worsening democratic crisis
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Irene Sousalo ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.
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Danielle Del Plato The Largest Autocracy on Earth
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.
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Getty ; The Atlantic ‘Why Are We Not Vaccinating Children Under 12?’
An infectious-disease doctor on what we know about the Delta variant and the risks that lie ahead.
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Adam Maida Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
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Rebecca Blackwell / AP So You Want to Go to War With Philadelphia?
Good luck with that.
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Olivia Arthur / Magnum ‘This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail’
It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.
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Arsh Raziuddin The Prophecies of Q
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Hillary Clinton: Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘Authoritarian’ Views on Misinformation
Facebook has traded moral accountability for commercial gain, the former secretary of state tells The Atlantic. Clinton says Zuckerberg’s reasoning is “Trumpian.”
