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First, listed below are three new tales which might be value your time:
Glorious Information
For the third consecutive yr, the American Society of Journal Editors has bestowed upon The Atlantic its high prize, the Nationwide Journal Award for Common Excellence. It is a super honor. Just one different journal has been awarded this prize thrice in a row, and that was greater than 25 years in the past. The competitors was robust. We had been up in opposition to a raft of wonderful magazines: The New Yorker, New York journal, The New York Occasions Journal, and The Economist’s 1843 journal.
It’s notably gratifying to notice that this was not the one award The Atlantic gained final evening. Three of our employees writers gained Nationwide Journal Awards for his or her stellar work: Tim Alberta, one among America’s most gifted function writers, obtained the highest prize in profile writing, for his incisive and influential profile of Chris Licht, the now-former head of CNN. Sophie Gilbert, a critic of outstanding discernment and acuity, gained the highest prize in evaluations and criticism, for her sensible work on popular culture and feminism. And Jennifer Senior gained the highest prize in columns and essays for her superbly elegiac story about her aunt Adele, who was institutionalized by her household as a toddler due to an mental incapacity and left to wither for many years in terrifying amenities earlier than touchdown in a supportive group dwelling in center age. Tim and Sophie had been first-time finalists for the Nationwide Journal Award. For Jen, this was a repeat journey to the rostrum; she has been a finalist every of the previous three years, and he or she gained the Nationwide Journal Award in Characteristic Writing two years in the past, for her story on the aftermath of 9/11 (it’s value noting that she additionally gained the Pulitzer Prize for that story). The final view throughout our trade, one which I endorse, is that Jen is doing a number of the finest writing within the English language in the present day.
I’m additionally happy to let you recognize that The Atlantic gained the prize for finest print illustration, for the portrait of our senior editor Jenisha Watts, by Didier Viodé. Jenisha herself was a first-time finalist in function writing. Her attractive and courageous cowl story, “Jenisha From Kentucky,” is among the finest private essays The Atlantic has ever revealed.
Our journal’s particular difficulty on Reconstruction, edited by Vann R. Newkirk II and John Swansburg, was a finalist within the single-topic-issue class, the primary time The Atlantic has been so acknowledged. This difficulty was extraordinary. In the event you missed it, now is an efficient time to go to its tales (and an authentic play, This Ghost of Slavery, by our contributing author Anna Deavere Smith).
All in all (and I apologize for the unseemly bragging), The Atlantic introduced dwelling extra Nationwide Journal Awards than another publication.
Final yr, once we gained the prize for common excellence for the second consecutive time, I assumed we wouldn’t be capable of sustain this streak. However my usually wonderful colleagues maintain outdoing themselves, and so the judges, although maybe predisposed to grant this prize to {a magazine} with New York in its title, made what I contemplate to be the inevitably right choice.
As a few of you recognize, The Atlantic has had a run of constructive information recently. The largest improvement: We only in the near past crossed the 1-million-subscription threshold. This has by no means occurred in our 167-year historical past. We’re additionally, once more, a worthwhile journal firm. That is vital not merely as a result of these developments enable us to pursue essentially the most formidable journalism attainable however as a result of we hope to indicate the world that it’s attainable to have an economically self-sustaining print-and-digital publication that’s dedicated to producing solely the most effective journalism. As I wrote final yr, we realized that the way in which to distinguish The Atlantic in a crowded subject is to make tales solely of the very best high quality and ambition. We typically fall wanting our goal, however not for lack of making an attempt.
Tomorrow, a return to your common e-newsletter programming. For now, let me thanks, our readers and subscribers, to your loyalty and your dedication to the beliefs of The Atlantic.
Learn all of our Nationwide Journal Award winners and finalists right here.
Right this moment’s Information
- A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan in the present day, killing at the least 9 folks and injuring greater than 900 others. It’s the strongest earthquake the nation has skilled previously 25 years.
- The College of Texas at Austin laid off at the least 60 staff who had labored in roles associated to variety, fairness, and inclusion, the Austin American-Statesman reported yesterday. Texas handed an anti-DEI legislation final summer season that went into impact in January.
- To replenish its forces, Ukraine lowered its conscription age from 27 to 25 for males and eliminated some draft exemptions.
Dispatches
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Night Learn
If Teenage Ladies Ran America
By Shirley Li
Early within the new documentary Ladies State, one of many members within the titular management program for top schoolers chuckles after studying the camp music. She feels foolish working towards the flashy choreography and rousing lyrics when the weeklong intensive is supposed for constructing a mock authorities with different civic-minded youngsters. “If the boys don’t have to do that,” she says, “I’m going to be pissed.”
Because it seems, the boys don’t—and he or she’s not the one one miffed concerning the disparity between the sibling packages run by the veterans affiliation American Legion. Ladies State, which begins streaming on Apple TV+ this Friday, is a follow-up to the acclaimed 2020 documentary Boys State … However Ladies State is rather more than a gender-flipped model of the earlier challenge. As an alternative, the movie provides a pointy research of how a supposedly empowering setting can concurrently encourage and restrict aspiring feminine leaders.
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Tradition Break
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