{"id":10750,"date":"2025-07-13T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:41:33","slug":"six-weekend-stories-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=10750","title":{"rendered":"Six Weekend Stories &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Spend time with stories about the bizarre relationship of a \u201cwork wife\u201d and a \u201cwork husband,\u201d the great cousin decline, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">The Great Cousin Decline<\/p>\n<p>Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one. (From 2023)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Faith Hill<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">I See Your Smartphone-Addicted Life<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never owned the device, and I\u2019m not sure I ever want to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Franklin Schneider<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">The Books We Read Too Late\u2014And That You Should Read Now<\/p>\n<p>One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you\u2014if only you\u2019d found it sooner. (From 2022)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By The Atlantic Culture Desk<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">The Bizarre Relationship of a \u201cWork Wife\u201d and a \u201cWork Husband\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work marriage is a strange response to our anxieties about mixed-gender friendships, heightened by the norms of a professional environment. (From 2023)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Stephanie H. Murray<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">America\u2019s Coming Smoke Epidemic<\/p>\n<p>The research on what smoke does to a body is just beginning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Zo\u00eb Schlanger<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are<\/p>\n<p>There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age. (From 2023)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Jennifer Senior<\/p>\n<ol class=\"\">\n<li>Eddington, a drama-comedy by Ari Aster about a standoff between a mayor and a local sheriff (in theaters Friday)<\/li>\n<li>Season 7 finale of Love Island USA, a reality-TV show with a $100,000 prize (premieres tonight on Peacock)<\/li>\n<li>A Flower Traveled in My Blood, by Haley Cohen Gilliland, a deeply reported new book about Argentina\u2019s \u201cdisappeared\u201d (out Tuesday)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><strong>Essay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Illustration by Lucy Murray Willis<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn\u2019t Enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">By Andrew Aoyama<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Kurihara watched the furniture pile higher and higher on the streets of Terminal Island. Tables and chairs, mattresses and bed frames, refrigerators and radio consoles had been dragged into alleyways and arranged in haphazard stacks. It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy had given the island\u2019s residents 48 hours to pack up and leave \u2026<\/p>\n<p>A week earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing military commanders to designate areas from which \u201cany or all persons may be excluded.\u201d The order made no mention of race, but its target was clear: people who were ethnically Japanese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Read the full article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">More in Culture<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ArticleHeading_root__WKbPJ ArticleHeading_hed1__1gTi1\"\/>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><strong>Catch Up on <em>The Atlantic <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Photo Album<\/p>\n<p>Solar panels cover hillsides in China\u2019s northern Hebei province. (Greg Baker \/ AFP \/ Getty)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">As the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues making huge investments in the industry. Take a look at the scale of China\u2019s solar-power projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><em>Play our daily crossword.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><em>Explore all of our newsletters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><em>When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. 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