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Jake Lundberg

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
Latest publication
Sep 3, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
Top 10K sites
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Jake Lundberg

    How the Early Dreams of the Internet Changed (opens the original)

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    This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. During the 1984 Super Bowl, an advertisement launched a technological revolution. If you were alive, you probably know the one. Directed by Ridley Scott, the minute-long spot showed men in gray uniforms, heads shaved, eyes blank, marching in unison toward a lifeless auditorium. A Big Brother figure speaks from a giant screen, droning on about “the first glorious anni

  2. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Jake Lundberg

    The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach (opens the original)

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    This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Historians are generally better off interpreting the past than predicting the future. By training, we’re meant to read sources, not tea leaves. In the fall of 1973, during the middle acts of Watergate’s Shakespearean drama, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. tried to do a little bit of both. In the cover story of The Atlantic’s November issue that year, “The Runaway Presidenc

  3. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Jake Lundberg

    The White-Collar Myth (opens the original)

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    This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A New York City ferry terminal in the late 1860s: Commuters issue forth into Lower Manhattan’s maze of streets. They move in distinct waves through the morning. First come the working-class employees in their flannel shirts, off to jobs in factories and shops for little pay. Then around 7 a.m., the crowd shifts, and the clothing with it. “The shirts of the passengers

  4. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Jake Lundberg

    How the American Office Became Inevitable (opens the original)

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    This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. One of the most gruesome murders in 19th-century America happened in a New York City office, just across the street from city hall. In 1841, Samuel Adams, a printer of no apparent relation to the famous Revolutionary, paid a visit to John Colt, the author of a popular bookkeeping manual and brother to a famous gunmaker. Adams had gone to see Colt about the $1.35 he b

  5. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Jake Lundberg

    A City That Explains America (opens the original)

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    This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In the eyes of its many critics, New York City has always been both too American and not American enough. It’s the place where the pursuit of profit curdles into greed—where hustlers, financiers, and real-estate speculators conjure fortunes out of thin air. Just as often, it’s dismissed as too crowded, too diverse, and too entangled with the wider world to fit the vi

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