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How the Ivy League Broke America<\/p>\n
The meritocracy isn\u2019t working. We need something new. (From 2024)<\/p>\n
By David Brooks<\/p>\n
The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest<\/p>\n
When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship. (From 2021)<\/p>\n
By Arthur C. Brooks<\/p>\n
What Really Happened to Malaysia\u2019s Missing Airplane<\/p>\n
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say. (From 2019)<\/p>\n
By William Langewiesche<\/p>\n
The Elite College Students Who Can\u2019t Read Books<\/p>\n
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. (From 2024)<\/p>\n
By Rose Horowitch<\/p>\n
What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany\u2019s Central Banker<\/p>\n
Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank\u2014but he wouldn\u2019t accede to Hitler\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n
By Timothy W. Ryback<\/p>\n
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship<\/p>\n
Would you raise kids with your best pals?<\/p>\n
By Rhaina Cohen<\/p>\n
What the Comfort Class Doesn\u2019t Get<\/p>\n
People with generational wealth control a society that they don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n
By Xochitl Gonzalez<\/p>\n
The Week Ahead<\/p>\n
Essay<\/strong><\/p>\n Illustration by Akshita Chandra \/ The Atlantic. Source: Getty.<\/p>\n The Logic of the \u20189 to 5\u2019 Is Creeping Into the Rest of the Day<\/p>\n By Julie Beck<\/p>\n The shift begins when she leaves her desk at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n She drives home, arriving at 5:45. Five minutes later, she\u2019s starting a load of laundry; at 6 p.m. she changes into workout clothes. By 6:25 she\u2019s on the treadmill for precisely 30 minutes. At 7 o\u2019clock she grabs a grocery delivery from her front porch and unloads it. At 7:15 she makes an electrolyte drink. Shower time is at 7:25. At 8 p.m. she cooks up some salmon and broccoli; at 8:25 she plates her dinner while tidily packing up the leftovers. Not a moment is wasted \u2026<\/p>\n In the past few weeks, I have lived months\u2019 worth of compressed mornings and evenings with 5-to-9 vloggers. They are a self-selecting crew, certainly. But the sheer volume of hours that I consumed allowed me to see, in a big-picture way, how the need to be productive seeps into people\u2019s leisure time\u2014time that ideally would be free of such concerns. These videos reflect a truth that predates and will almost certainly outlive them: When life revolves around work, even leisure becomes labor.<\/p>\n Read the full article.<\/p>\n More in Culture<\/p>\n Catch Up on The Atlantic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Photo Album<\/p>\n Green and red displays from the southern lights (aurora australis) appear above the Earth, seen from the orbiting International Space Station, south of Australia, on April 21, 2025. (Nichole Ayers \/ NASA)<\/p>\n Recent photographs from crew members aboard the International Space Station show views of auroras, moonsets, the Milky Way, and more.<\/p>\n Explore all of our newsletters.<\/em><\/p>\n When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting <\/em>The Atlantic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. Explore stories about how the Ivy League broke America, why friendship could be the foundation of lasting love, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1671,3700,2780],"class_list":{"0":"post-16316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-atlantic","9":"tag-reads","10":"tag-weekend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}