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NBA Views Sports Betting Value As Fan Engagement Over $170M In Annual Revenue
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver defended his long-standing support for legalized sports betting while stopping short of expressing regret, even as gambling-related scandals have shaken the league this season. Silver framed the primary value of betting partnerships as viewer engagement rather than direct revenue. "The greater value to us is the engagement," Silver told The Atlantic.
Adam Silver Embraces Anxious Leadership Style While Distancing Himself From David Stern Era
Adam Silver monitors social media criticism the way a stockbroker tracks market swings, begins and ends each day with media briefings, and freely admits his anxious approach to running the NBA is deliberate. "There's a lot coming at us all the time, and I think there's plenty to be nervous about," Silver told The Atlantic.
Adam Silver Goes to War
Adam Silver is one of America’s most powerful men. Part businessman and part diplomat, he leads a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate and exercises soft power across continents. But on the day we met, the commissioner of the National Basketball Association appeared aimless, drifting awkwardly through the roped-off VIP area of a sports-business conference in Nashville. Silver had just concluded a keynote session.
Adam Silver Goes to War
NBA Accused Of Blatantly Rigging The Playoffs For One Team – Angry Fans Are Taking Notice The NBA playoffs have just started, but there is already some controversy. Fans and players had questions after the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the …
What Josh Shapiro Knows About Trump Voters
Listen1.0x 0:0051:24 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. It is a rare thing to see Josh Shapiro sweat. For all the grief the Pennsylvania governor gets for imitating Barack Obama—the staggered cadence, the side-of-the-mouth delivery for effect—their essential shared trait is self-possession.
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The Advice Elissa Slotkin Didn’t Take Original
Right around the time that Donald Trump was arriving at the U.S. Capitol to address a joint session of Congress—the longest such speech, it would turn out, in the history of the presidency—Elissa Slotkin, the newly elected Michigan senator tasked with delivering the Democratic Party’s rebuttal, was telling me all the things she wouldn’t be talking about.
Evangelical reckonings
What more can we say about evangelicalism? This is the perennial question for religious scholars of the past decade. While the answer may very well be “not much,” evangelicals continue to give historians, scholars, and public commentators ample source material for the next book. Indeed, an incredible number of commentaries, histories, and analyses of American evangelicalism were released in 2023.
Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign
“What’s discipline got to do with winning?” At the end of June, in the afterglow of a debate performance that would ultimately prompt President Joe Biden to end his campaign for reelection, Donald Trump startled his aides by announcing that he’d come up with a new nickname for his opponent. “The guy’s a retard. He’s retarded.
Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign Original
Listen1.0x 0:0042:27 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. To support The Atlantic’s journalism, please consider subscribing today. At the end of June, in the afterglow of a debate performance that would ultimately prompt President Joe Biden to end his campaign for reelection, Donald Trump startled his aides by announcing that he’d come up with a new nickname for his opponent. “The guy’s a retard. He’s retarded.
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Real Journalism, Right Now
It is not hard to find evidence for the conclusion that journalism is dead. A 2021 Gallup Poll said that just 21 percent of Americans had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers. For TV journalism, the number was even worse: 16 percent. Of the 16 institutions Gallup asked about, only the U.S. Congress had lower scores. But is real journalism dead, or has it just been drowned out?
Why Mike Lee Folded
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How Mike Lee Learned to Love Donald Trump
Listen1.0x 0:0043:46 Listen to more stories on curio When it was finally his turn to speak during the televised roll call at this summer’s Republican National Convention, Senator Mike Lee wore the canny smile of a man who was selling something bigger than his home state of Utah. “It’s a place where we love freedom, we love the Constitution,” Lee said, “and we despise tyranny.” Explore the October 2024 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
How Mike Lee Learned to Love Donald Trump
When it was finally his turn to speak during the televised roll call at this summer’s Republican National Convention, Senator Mike Lee wore the canny smile of a man who was selling something bigger than his home state of Utah. “It’s a place where we love freedom, we love the Constitution,” Lee said, “and we despise tyranny.” Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More Watching Lee from some 20 feet away as he spoke, I felt a twinge of déjà vu.
How can Christian leaders faithfully navigate politics?
John Fea: Evangelicals may vote the same in 2020 as in 2016, but we understand them much better now
Foreign Correspondence, Vol 102
Hello, and happy Friday! After six years, 10 months, and 16 days living as an American in London, I decided to take my relationship with the U.K. to the next level. On Monday, I became a British citizen. Although my path to British citizenship was relatively straightforward—I spent five years on a work visa before becoming eligible to apply for indefinite leave to remain and, a year later, naturalization—it nearly wasn’t.
This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared
A campaign that had been optimized to beat Joe Biden must now be reinvented. On the evening of Super Tuesday, March 5, shortly before Donald Trump effectively ended the Republican primary and earned a general-election rematch with President Joe Biden, I asked the co-managers of Trump’s presidential campaign what they feared most about Biden. “Honestly, it’s less him,” Chris LaCivita told me. “And more—” “Institutional Democrats,” Susie Wiles said, finishing her partner’s thought.
This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared
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This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared
On the evening of Super Tuesday, March 5, shortly before Donald Trump effectively ended the Republican primary and earned a general-election rematch with President Joe Biden, I asked the co-managers of Trump’s presidential campaign what they feared most about Biden. “Honestly, it’s less him,” Chris LaCivita told me. “And more—” “Institutional Democrats,” Susie Wiles said, finishing her partner’s thought. It was a revealing exchange, and a theme we would revisit frequently.
‘What the Heck Just Happened?’
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Trump’s VP Announcement Didn’t Go According to Plan
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Trump's VP Announcement Didn’t Go According to Plan
So much for the big reveal. When Republican delegates from across the country walked into the Fiserv Forum on Monday morning, all the buzz was about the pending selection of Donald Trump’s running mate—an announcement they believed would come that night, in prime time, a climactic conclusion to the first day of the GOP convention.
‘What the Heck Just Happened?’
11 hours ago WASHINGTON – The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week will feature a full roster of former President Donald Trump's loyalists, from notable pro-Trump business leaders to more than three dozen members of Congress, six GOP governors and members of the Trump family. But there are …
Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win Original
Listen1.0x 0:001:02:07 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. The outcome of the presidential campaign, Republicans believed, was a fait accompli. “Donald Trump was well on his way to a 320-electoral-vote win,” Chris LaCivita told me this past Sunday as Democrats questioned, ever more frantically, whether President Joe Biden should remain the party’s nominee in November.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Published by Harper in 512pp / $21.99 / The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory is a sequel of sorts to Alberta’s 2019 book American Carnage: the first covered the Trumpian takeover of the Republican Party after 2016, whereas this new book details the Trumpian takeover of parts of white evangelicalism.
Dip Into Summer Reading
Reviewed by Lorilee Craker I’ve always loved this story of a pig named Wilbur, a girl named Fern, and a spider named Charlotte, but the audiobook version, read by the late E.B. White himself, is, as Charlotte described Wilbur, “radiant.” Listeners will be transported to an old-fashioned barnyard with all its creatures as White envelops them in his timeless tale of friendship and sacrifice.
Chatter: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, with Tim Alberta
Tim Alberta is an American journalist and author, and son of an evangelical pastor. Following his father’s death in 2019, Alberta began a four year journey, talking to American evangelicals ranging from megachurch pastors who preach to thousands to pastors at churches with a few dozen congregants to understand the schism occurring in the American evangelical community.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Journalist Tim Alberta became certain: Evangelicalism had changed. Alberta recounts the words he heard in the receiving line for his dad’s funeral. Here in a Brighton, Mich., church where Alberta had grown up under his dad’s pastorate, he encountered not sympathy—but attacks about why he didn’t share their views on conservative politicians and media figures. Alberta was even asked if he was really a Christian. He recalls, “All the while Dad was in a box a hundred feet away ...
The Atlantic’s 2024 National Magazine Award Winners and Finalists
For the third consecutive year, The Atlantic won the top honor of General Excellence for a News, Sports, and Entertainment publication at the 2024 National Magazine Awards. Below is a list of the stories that received recognition from the American Society of Magazine Editors: Winner: Profile Writing “Inside the Meltdown at CNN” By Tim Alberta CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
What’s Left to Say About Evangelicals? – - D.G. Hart
Since 2017 the study of American evangelicalism has featured a barrage of books that seemingly prove this religious group’s bad manners and uncivil politics. This perspective circulated even before the 2016 election of Donald Trump, to be sure. But with the election of Trump and the four-year, almost daily reminder of evangelical hypocrisy—headlines regularly repeated that “Eighty-One Percent of White Evangelicals Voted for Donald Trump”—the study of evangelicalism took an abrupt U-turn.
Finding Light In Evangelicals' Dark Turn to Partisanship
Tim Alberta has stared into the abyss of extreme partisan Christianity in America - and somehow still sees light at the end of the tunnel. The Atlantic writer and onetime pastor's kid has witnessed firsthand how segments of the evangelical movement have gotten consumed by a toxic, us-vs-them mindset fueled by apocalyptic conspiracy theories. But in his latest book, he searches for the remaining voices of moderation who could help rein in these dangerous excesses.
Tim Alberta on Apple Podcasts
Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Journalist and Author, Tim Alberta, exploring his work and the themes of his new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism._____LINKShttps://www.bytimalberta.comBOOKSThe Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremismhttps://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Power-Glory-Evangelicals-Extremism/dp/006322688X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1704411722&sr=8-1American Carnage: ...
Why do many evangelical Christians have a strong allegiance to Trump?
Evangelical Christians — a key voting bloc for former President Donald Trump — have influenced the country’s religious, cultural and political discourse for decades. But a new book explores an increasing rift among evangelicals. One side is increasingly political and attracting members, while the other is losing members as it seeks to stay out of partisan politics.
Il culto di Donald Trump
Era il 29 luglio 2019, il peggior giorno della mia vita, anche se non lo sapevo ancora. Nel centro di Washington le macchine avanzavano a passo d’uomo, mentre l’umidità entrava dai finestrini dell’auto. Ero in ritardo e facevo fatica a restare sveglio. Da due settimane giravo tra canali tv ed emittenti radio della costa est degli Stati Uniti per promuovere il mio libro, che raccontava la trasformazione del Partito repubblicano e l’ascesa di Donald Trump alla presidenza del paese.
‘The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism’
Chris Winans was in trouble. It was a frigid afternoon in February 2021, and Winans, the senior pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Presbyterian Church, sat down across from me in a booth at the Brighton Bar and Grill. It’s a comfortable little haunt on Main Street in my hometown, backing up to a wooden playground and a mill pond. But Winans didn’t look comfortable. He looked panicked, even a bit paranoid, glancing around him as we began to speak. Soon, I would understand why.
OPINION: The only thing more dangerous than authoritarianism
This Christmas season, I have been reflecting on the words of my favorite author, C. S. Lewis, who once observed: “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” Speaking about American evangelicalism was never my intention.
The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism
This Christmas season, I have been reflecting on the words of my favorite author, C. S. Lewis, who once observed: “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” Speaking about American evangelicalism was never my intention.
Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2023
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. Many of the stories our readers spent time with this year revealed a curiosity about the historical events that shaped current circumstances at home and abroad, and a desire to examine humanity’s best and worst impulses. Spend some of your Sunday with 12 don’t-miss stories of the past year.
The Most Unsettling ‘Christmas Carol’
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. Over the past few years, I’ve reminded you of the best Christmas specials and talked about some classic Christmas music. This year, it’s time to clear the field for the greatest adaptation of the greatest Christmas story.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory:... book by Tim Alberta
Select Format Book Overview The award-winning journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing--and least understood--people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, journalist...
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
The award-winning journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement. Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.
“This Is the Final Compromise”: Donald Trump and the Implosion of the American Evangelical Movement
I had begun to tune out the main-stage speakers by the time Jim Jordan was introduced. It was the second day of Road to Majority, the annual symposium organized by Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, and this year’s headliners were doing more wailing and gnashing of teeth than usual.
It’s all Biden’s fault, a rerun of 2016 and how Gavin Newsom outsmarted DeSantis
We live in a partisan age, and our news habits can reinforce our own perspectives. Consider this an effort to broaden our collective outlook with essays beyond the range of our typical selections. FROM THE LEFT From “If Donald Trump Wins Next Year, Don’t Blame the Voters. Blame Joe Biden,” by Ben Burgis in Jacobin at tinyurl.com/42vz9n4s. The context, from the author: It’s the job of politicians to appeal to voters.
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy A new book on the Christian right reveals how a series of unscrupulous leaders turned politics into a powerful and lucrative gospel. POLITICO illustration/Photos by AP, Gage Skidmore, iStock Tim Alberta is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. He formerly served as chief political correspondent for POLITICO.
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
1 day ago Lawrence O’Donnell Says GOPer’s Nickname For Trump Proves 1 Damning Thing HuffPost - Lee Moran • 1d The MSNBC anchor also issued a fierce response to the former president’s attack on the network. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday argued why the “Orange Jesus” nickname that one Republican lawmaker reportedly used to refer to Donald Trump is actually damningly emblematic of the entire GOP.
The Evangelical Roadshow That’s Trying to Make America a Theocracy
It would be of little use to tell the folks around me — the people of my conservative hometown — that Barton wasn’t a real historian. They wouldn’t care that his lone academic credential was a bachelor’s degree in religious education from Oral Roberts University.
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
I had never seen a sanctuary so full on a Tuesday night. The people packed into FloodGate Church in Brighton, Mich., weren’t here for Bill Bolin, the right-wing zealot pastor who’d grown his congregation tenfold by preaching conspiracy-fueled sermons since the onset of Covid-19, turning Sunday morning worship services into amateur Fox News segments.
The Gospel Truth
Jonah returns to distinctly Frenchian territory on today’s Remnant, which explores the state of evangelicalism in America. His guest is Tim Alberta, a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Tim’s new book raises an exigent question: Why are so many interpreting faith through the lens of politics instead of the other way round?
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