Adrienne LaFrance

Executive Editor at The Atlantic

Executive Editor, The Atlantic

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How Reddit became the nicest place on the internet

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Adrienne LaFrance

Adrienne LaFranceMar 28, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In the ever-expanding universe of obsolete sounds, few can compare to the confident yawp of a dial-up modem. Back in the early days, the internet was slow, but we didn’t know it yet. Or at least we didn’t care. And why should we have?
The Fundamental Humanity of Reddit

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Adrienne LaFrance

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the ever-expanding universe of obsolete sounds, few can compare to the confident yawp of a dial-up modem. Back in the early days, the internet was slow, but we didn’t know it yet. Or at least we didn’t care. And why should we have? The stuff of the web was organic, something you had to plant and then harvest. It took time. Websites popped up like wildflowers.
The Nicest Swamp on the Internet

1 month ago | msn.com | Adrienne LaFrance

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The Fundamental Humanity of Reddit

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Adrienne LaFrance

Listen1.0x0:0012:47Listen to more stories on harkIn the ever-expanding universe of obsolete sounds, few can compare to the confident yawp of a dial-up modem. Back in the early days, the internet was slow, but we didn’t know it yet. Or at least we didn’t care. And why should we have? The stuff of the web was organic, something you had to plant and then harvest. It took time. Websites popped up like wildflowers. Far-flung enthusiasts found one another, but gradually.
Free Speech Is the Most Sacred of American Freedoms

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Adrienne LaFrance

The president of the United States is demanding that American citizens use only the words that please him, and he is punishing those who refuse to do so. This is the essence of his attacks against the Associated Press, which he has barred from the White House for referring to the Gulf of Mexico as “the Gulf of Mexico.” He is now demanding that the news agency acquiesce to his renaming of the body of water.
Intimidating Americans Will Not Work

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Adrienne LaFrance

The president of the United States is demanding that American citizens use only the words that please him, and he is punishing those who refuse to do so. This is the essence of his attacks against the Associated Press, which he has barred from the White House for referring to the Gulf of Mexico as “the Gulf of Mexico.” He is now demanding that the news agency acquiesce to his renaming of the body of water.
Do It For Gilda

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Adrienne LaFrance

Before John Belushi, before Bill Murray or Chevy Chase or Dan Aykroyd—before any of them, there was Gilda. Gilda Radner was the first performer Lorne Michaels hired for the cast of Saturday Night Live when it launched, in 1975. She was, at the time, one of the stars of The National Lampoon Radio Hour, the only woman in a cast of men destined to be famous. “I knew that she could do almost anything, and that she was enormously likeable,” Michaels once said of the decision.
Do It for Gilda | Flipboard

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Adrienne LaFrance

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Capitulation Is Contagious

Jan 23, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Adrienne LaFrance

Listen1.0x0:006:54Listen to more stories on harkAt the height of his powers, Jay Gould was known by many names, few of them flattering. People called him the Skunk of Wall Street, the Napoleon of Finance, and Mephistopheles himself. Gould, alongside rivals such as Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller, was a captain of industry—or, as they would all come to be known, a robber baron.
What a Single Act of Mayhem Can Do

Dec 11, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Adrienne LaFrance

The line between a normal, functioning society and catastrophic decivilization can be crossed with a single act of mayhem. This is why, for those who have studied violence closely, the brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and, more important, the brazenness of the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed and the conditions that exacerbate it.