Award-winning and nominated tales by Clint Smith, Caitlin Dickerson, and extra
Spend your weekend with a cup of heat espresso and our National Magazine Award–nominated articles.
But first, listed below are three new tales from The Atlantic.
Yesterday, the American Society of Magazine Editors announced the finalists for this 12 months’s National Magazine Awards, and The Atlantic was acknowledged for a spread of labor. The journal obtained nominations for 5 particular person tales, in addition to a nomination for the General Excellence award, a finalist place within the Best Digital Illustration class, and a win within the Best Print Illustration class. (Winners in different nominated classes might be introduced in March.)
These nominations spotlight a spread of remarkable tales, together with a rigorous yearslong investigation, two illuminating political profiles, and an unforgettable private account of fleeing Afghanistan and leaving every thing behind. Spend time with this assortment of our finalists and winners over the weekend.
Your Weekend Reads
I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story
By Bushra Seddique
My escape from Afghanistan (Winner, Best Print Illustration, by Sally Deng)
By George Packer
America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added ethical harm to army failure. But a gaggle of troopers, veterans, and extraordinary residents got here collectively to attempt to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor. (Finalist, Reporting)
By Clint Smith
America nonetheless can’t work out the best way to memorialize the sins of our historical past. What can we be taught from Germany? (Finalist, Columns and Essays)
By Caitlin Dickerson
The secret historical past of the U.S. authorities’s family-separation coverage (Finalist, Public Interest)
By Graeme Wood
Asked in regards to the homicide of Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman stated, “If that’s the way we did things, Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list.” (Finalist, Profile Writing)
By Jennifer Senior
Steve Bannon remains to be scheming. And he’s nonetheless a menace to democracy. (Finalist, Profile Writing)
By Keisha N. Blain
Joetha Collier, a younger Black girl, was killed by a white man in 1971, close to the Mississippi city the place Emmett Till was murdered. Why isn’t her case identified nationally right now? (Finalist, Best Digital Illustration, by Esiri Essi)
Today’s News
- The White House warned that Russia could also be planning to offer fighter jets to Iran.
- An impartial evaluation of EPA knowledge collected within the weeks following the February 3 practice derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, discovered elevated ranges of 9 completely different air pollution within the space.
- Hundreds of heat daily-temperature data have been set this week throughout the jap U.S., along with quite a few cold-weather data in western states.
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Evening Read
The Parent Test Stokes American Parenting’s Worst Impulses
By Lydia Kiesling
If you’re an American mum or dad, you’re mired in contradiction wherever you look: Children are too coddled, a strident Facebook put up may shout at you, proper earlier than you learn an article in regards to the risks of letting children go outdoors alone. It takes a village, you’re advised, but additionally, everybody hates it whenever you convey your toddler on a airplane or right into a restaurant. You learn that trendy American parenting is uniquely isolating and costly, then watch in befuddlement whereas Congress lets the expanded baby tax credit score expire.
The Parent Test, a brand new reality-TV present on ABC, guarantees to throw confused mother and father a lifeline and determine “today’s most effective parenting style.” The present is hosted by Adolph Brown—a medical psychologist, motivational speaker, and father of eight—and the actor Ali Wentworth, mom of two. It follows 12 households, every embodying a distinct fashion of parenting, and assesses every fashion for its probability of manufacturing eventual adults who’re “emotionally whole,” and in a position to have “healthy relationships” and “navigate today’s world.” Each household is filmed doing a collection of parenting challenges, and the remainder of the mother and father analyze the footage, voting one fashion out after each spherical. In the finale, the households select one parenting fashion to rule all of them. It’s American Gladiators gone home, set in a comfy amphitheater. But the battle metaphor ripples outward, portray a lonely image of American mother and father preventing for his or her youngsters’s success and security in a harmful world whereas everybody watches, judges, and weighs in.
More From The Atlantic
Culture Break
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Watch. In theaters, Return to Seoul is a narrative of adoption and belonging that resists simple sentimentality.
On TV, Apple TV+’s Hello Tomorrow! is a present about mistaking hype for progress.
And there’s at all times Titanic, which feels completely different 25 years after its launch.
Listen. Caroline Polachek’s new album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, is pure magic.
P.S.
Our closing advice for the weekend: Take a break from the display and take heed to audio variations of our articles. We’ve bought a number of tales now accessible within the Hark app, together with my Daily colleague Tom Nichols’s exploration of the narcissism of some indignant younger males and Jennifer Senior’s etiquette information for family members coping with lengthy COVID.
Whichever tales, films, or books you select to spend your weekend with, I hope you take pleasure in them.
— Isabel
Kelli María Korducki contributed to this text.