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"In an era when TV talking heads are more influential than ever, Tucker Carlson has suddenly—and rather improbably—emerged as one of the most powerful people in media. The question now is what he wants to do with that perch.  To the extent that Carlson’s on-air commentary these days is guided by any kind of animating idea, it is perhaps best summarized as a staunch aversion to whatever his right-minded neighbors believe. The country has reached a point, he tells me, where the elite consensus on any given issue should be 'reflexively distrusted.'" Read McKay Coppins's story, "The Bow-Tied Bard of Populism," on TheAtlantic.com. 🎨 : Brendan Hoffman / Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic #tuckercarlson #populism #foxnews
Chimamanda Adichie on what Americans get wrong about Africa. “I don't think stereotypes are problematic because they're false. That's too simple,” she says. “Stereotypes are problematic because they're incomplete.” 🎥: Jackie Lay #africa #chimamandaadichie #stereotypes
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Laura Bennett, a 59-year-old pediatrician in Long Island, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997, but her symptoms consisted mostly of numbness and tingling until about six years ago. That’s when she started to have trouble walking. She went from using a cane, to a walker, to a scooter. Her knee became so stiff that flexing it was “like trying to bend a lead pipe,” she said. These days, she can only leave her home with help or in a wheelchair. The MS also left her with debilitating fatigue. Two years ago, her neurologist asked her if she’d consider something a little unorthodox: Zapping her brain with an electrical current, from the comfort of her own home. The treatment was part of a study performed by Leigh Charvet, a neurologist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. It was meant to see if transcranial direct current stimulation, a brain treatment also known as tDCS, could be used remotely to relieve the brain fog and oppressive fatigue that many MS patients suffer. Read “Zapping Your Brain at Home to Cure Fatigue” by Olga Khazan 🎨: hides / Duplass / Paul Spella / The Atlantic #health #neurology #science #multiplesclerosis
Rumana Ahmed was hired to work on the National Security Council during the Obama administration. She decided to stay on NSC staff when the Trump administration took office. She lasted eight days. "When Trump issued a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and all Syrian refugees, I knew I could no longer stay and work for an administration that saw me and people like me not as fellow citizens, but as a threat," Ahmed writes on TheAtlantic.com today. #Trump #Obama #Muslim 📷 : @leahvarjacques / The Atlantic
Shanna Johnson, a middle-school language arts teacher in Grand Rapids, Michigan, had just begun teaching the historical-fiction novel “Dragonwings” when it took on added relevance during the 2016 presidential election. The book follows a young Chinese boy at the turn of the 20th century as he migrates to the United States to live with his father. The context of the story and its setting in San Francisco is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first major piece of U.S. legislation that restricted immigration and which, in targeting an ethnic group, set the precedent for subsequent restrictive immigration laws. As Johnson pointed out, the book touches on themes of “racism, discrimination, and the anti-immigration attitude of the nation” that uncannily reflect the hostility and divisiveness of the recent election. Read Anna Diamond on “Using Historical Fiction to Connect Past and Present” 🎨: AP / LOC / Getty / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic #historicalfiction #education #fiction
Mekhi Brown, 15, holds flowers to be delivered to a local restaurant. Farm manager Jon Price ran a farm in Sacramento before moving back to the Bay Area to work with the interns at WOW (@wow_farm). “There’s so much value. It’s really therapeutic caring for living things.” I'm Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer based in Oakland, California. Thanks for following along my takeover of The Atlantic IG to share images from a story I worked on about urban agriculture programs in West Oakland. #AmericansatWork #urbanfarming #westoakland
Mekhi Brown, 15, trims the roots off greens at the WOW produce farm (@wow_farm) in West Oakland, California. I'm Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer based in Oakland. I'm taking over The Atlantic IG for a couple days to share images from a story I worked on about urban agriculture programs in West Oakland. As a photographer, my favorite time to work is around the golden hour (just before sunset). The WOW fall interns worked during that exact window of time, so I was in heaven. I couldn’t stay away. #AmericansatWork #urbanfarming #westoakland
Jakari Hill, 17, (left) and Malik Hopkins, 14, prep dirt for flower beds at WOW Farm (@wow_farm) in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, October 4, 2016. Malik said he enjoys the physicality of farming the most. “It’s kinda like the gym but different.” The flower farm sits in front of the historic 16th Street Station. The station was built in 1912 and operated until the early 1990s. The station was integral to the Second Great Migration, when African-Americans left the South in search of jobs. Many resettled in Oakland. I'm Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer based in Oakland, California. I'm taking over The Atlantic IG to share images from a story I worked on about urban agriculture programs in West Oakland. #AmericansatWork #urbanfarming #westoakland
Fleet Farming (@fleetfarming) Oakland farm manager Justin Vandenbroeck washes off some carrots before making dinner at home in West Oakland. Fleet Farming is another small grass-roots program that currently employs a former WOW intern. I'm Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer based in Oakland, California. I'm taking over The Atlantic IG to share images from a story I worked on about urban agriculture programs in West Oakland. #AmericansatWork #urbanfarming #westoakland
Justin Vandenbroeck, co-founder of Fleet Farming (@fleetfarming), harvests at a farmlette in West Oakland, California, on Tuesday, October 18, 2016. I'm Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer based in Oakland. I'm taking over The Atlantic IG to share images from a story I worked on about urban agriculture programs in West Oakland. All of these farms I photographed for this essay are within a two mile radius of my apartment. #AmericansatWork #urbanfarming #westoakland
An educational diagram of a compost pile at WOW Farm (@wow_farm) in Oakland, California. Industrial urban areas like West Oakland must contend with decades of pollutants. The farmers say the soil is too toxic and must be either hauled away or lined to accommodate organic soil beds built on top. Water, soil and air are all problems in West Oakland, said Justin Vandenbroeck, co-founder of Fleet Farming (@fleetfarming). “Everything is being compromised.” I'm Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer based in Oakland. I'm taking over The Atlantic IG to share images from a story I worked on about urban agriculture programs in West Oakland. #AmericansatWork #urbanfarming #westoakland
Azariah Waller, 3, helps her mother remove dead leaves from their community garden plot at City Slicker Farm Park in West Oakland, California, on Saturday, October 29, 2016. Gardening is spiritual, her mother Natacha Jeanty said, "Sometimes you gotta pull it out to make more grow." I'm Preston Gannaway (@pgannawayphoto), a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer based in Oakland. I'm taking over The Atlantic IG to share images from a story I worked on about urban agriculture programs in West Oakland. #AmericansatWork #urbanfarming #westoakland
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