Conor Friedersdorf
Before joining The Atlantic in 2010, he was the features editor at Culture11 and a reporter for the Los Angeles News Group. He is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
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Photo-Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bob Sacha / … The Dilemmas of Urban Life
“Pitting cities and suburbia against each other is a false choice,” one reader opines.
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Bob Sacha / Getty Are Suburbs the Future?
The dream of the city could be on its way out.
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Ernst Haas / Getty 12 Readers on the Question of Cars
“Once a convenience, cars are now an expensive necessity,” one writes.
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The Atlantic; Aufwind-Luftbilder / VISUM / Redux The Freedom and Frustration of Cars
Readers share mixed opinions on life behind the wheel.
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Tayfun Coskun / Getty What Stanford Law’s DEI Dean Got Wrong
Tirien Steinbach’s approach to a recent free-speech conflict on campus disempowered students.
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Eve Arnold / Magnum America’s in the Midst of a Socioeconomic Shift
What we need next is more new construction.
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The Atlantic. Source: Gueorgui Pinkhassov / Magnum 15 Readers on Their Religious Journeys
More replies on faith, community, and finding one’s home
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Greg Pease / Getty The States That Reopened First
Plus: How Fox News misled its viewers
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The Atlantic. Source: Auseef Mustafa / AFP / … 18 Readers on Their Relationship With Religion
An outpouring of replies on faith, community, and finding one’s home
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TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP / Getty Modern Spirituality Is a Consumer’s Choice Now
The decline of organized religion has privatized people’s search for meaning.
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The Atlantic. Source: Valerie Winckler / Gamma-Rapho / … Adults Are Letting Teen Girls Down
Readers weigh in on the causes, and potential solutions, for teen girls’ worsening mental health.
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The Atlantic An Anti-racist Professor Faces ‘Toxicity on the Left Today’
“I worry that left political discourse today takes social movements, or even just an individual who has suffered, as conversation stoppers rather than conversation starters.”
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Getty; The Atlantic The Airtight Case Against Internet Pile-Ons
Whether or not they’re famous (or blameless), people deserve accurate depictions in the media.
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The Atlantic; Getty How 12 Readers Prepare for Natural Disasters
“People usually don’t recover from disasters. If they’re lucky, they survive them.”
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Getty The Challenges of Disaster Planning
We want to hear your thoughts on living under the threat of natural disaster.
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The Atlantic / Getty The Many Ripple Effects of the Weight-Loss Industry
“Body shape is a metric that people use to judge character.”
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Ron Galella / Getty What Is Up With the Weight-Loss Industry?
Plus: A case against special police units
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An image of a gavel What Should Congress Be?
Former Representative Justin Amash’s critique of the House illuminates its failures to live up to democratic ideals––and casts the fight over its rules in a new light.
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The Atlantic; Ismail Ferdous / Agence VU / … What Makes a Good Cop
“Police should not police themselves.”
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Ismail Ferdous / Agence VU / Redux Public Outrage Hasn’t Improved Policing
Plus: A theory of tech giants
