Tom Nichols

Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon.

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2025-11-25 20:03:47 UTC

I make a tiny fraction of what Mark Zuckerberg makes, and yet I manage to dress better than he does. Telling me that techbros dress like little boys does not move me to go buy a baseball cap and wear it backwards in my car.
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2025-11-24 18:25:45 UTC

Man, whatever's in those files, it must be pretty horrible
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2025-10-30 01:17:10 UTC

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
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2025-10-25 15:18:32 UTC

In 1987, I almost got arrested - for taking a picture. Look in the middle of this group of officers and you'll see a general pointing at me. "Stop that guy."
I pulled the film from my cam, told my Mom to put it in her bra, and to keep walking, and if I didn't catch up, to call the consulate.
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2025-09-05 17:40:14 UTC

Nate Silver just wrote a really long thing about how disappointed he is in all of you
Hell, even I don't do that

2025-08-23 18:48:06 UTC

It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
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2025-08-12 17:24:01 UTC

1. He doesn’t listen.
2. This is not what a summit is for.
3.Trump is “honored” to host an indicted war criminal on American soil
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2025-08-03 02:04:08 UTC

Sigh. Here we go again. So once more, to add to the "myths that do not die," the older voters who are the mainstay of Trump's support were educated during the supposed golden age of public education. People my age, who went to good public schools and cheap colleges. /1
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2025-07-22 23:20:03 UTC

A special Daily with a remembrance of my mother in the PS at the end on what would have been her 91st birthday:
[www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...](https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/hegseths-purge-of-women-from-us-military-leadership/683631/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweGQt6vMeeEgrRT-qJs6gN1s&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[The Administration Wants Milit...](https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/hegseths-purge-of-women-from-us-military-leadership/683631/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweGQt6vMeeEgrRT-qJs6gN1s&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )