Six Sunday Reads
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.For your weekend reading list, our editors compiled six great stories. Grab a cup of coffee or tea, and settle in.A Reading ListThe People Who Quit Dating
Being single can be hard—but the search for love may be harder.
By Faith HillTrump’s Lie Is Another Test for Christian America
If we’re willing to see children terrorized because of a false rumor about Haitian immigrants, we should ask who abducted our conscience, not someone’s pet.
By Russell MooreHypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump
He said Republican politicians would be easy to break. He was right.
By Mark LeibovichThe Insurrectionists Next Door
Ashli Babbitt’s mother and the wife of a notorious January 6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the right. They are also my neighbors.
By Hanna RosinThe Real Reason People Aren’t Having Kids
It’s a need that government subsidies and better family policy can’t necessarily address.
By Christine EmbaWhy Mike Lee Folded
In 2016, he tried to stop Trump from becoming president. By 2020, he was trying to help Trump overturn the election. Now he could become Trump’s attorney general.
By Tim AlbertaThe Week Ahead
Nobody Wants This, a romantic-comedy series starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody about the relationship between an agnostic woman and a rabbi (premieres on Netflix on Thursday)
Mind Games, an illustrated book about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s transformation in New York (on sale Tuesday)
Megalopolis, a science-fiction epic written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola (in theaters Friday)
Essay
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: KitchenAid; Getty.
A $700 Kitchen Tool That’s Meant to Be Seen, Not UsedBy Ellen Cushing
Wood, I don’t think I need to work too hard to convince you, is a fairly amazing substance. It grows out of the ground and then becomes some of the most important things in the world: pencils, baseball bats, clogs, porch swings, campfires, crucifixes, tall shelves filled with books (which are also wood, if you squint a little). Solomon’s temple was wood; so was the Mayflower. So were Kane’s Rosebud and Prince’s guitar. As building materials go, wood’s durability-to-weight ratio is basically unmatched, thanks to the long, thin, hardy cell structure that helps trees withstand extreme weather conditions.
Wood does, however, have its limitations, and many of them are found in the kitchen.
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The Red Bull Cliff Diving athlete Catalin Preda, of Romania, dives from the 27-meter platform during a training session on September 14, 2024, in Tyrol, Austria. (Dean Treml / Red Bull / Getty)
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