Sally Jenkins
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 16, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
- Top 10K sites
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- Jul 6, 2026
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The Knives Are Out for Bill Belichick (opens the original)
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Ever since Bill Belichick, that aging football Caesar, arrived at the University of North Carolina roughly two years ago with his eight Super Bowl rings, the knives have been out. He is one of the greatest coaches in NFL history, but his hiring was controversial: Despite no experience leading a college team, he was given a five-year, $50 million contract—$30 million of it guaranteed—to vitalize a dowdy old southern program and lift it to championship level. From the beginning, he has been fighti
The Truth About Dolly Parton’s Style (opens the original)
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Dolly Parton was just 5-foot-nothing tall. She needed platform heels to make her feel that she could fill a performance space. Her husband, Carl Dean, once told her that from the audience, her platinum wigs made her tiny figure look like a Q-tip. But no amount of mocking could make her surrender the hair, heels, and rhinestones, which were her own brand of feminism under wraps. “Believe it or not, I had to fight for that look!” she wrote in her 2023 memoir, Behind the Seams. The look wasn’t abou
The Man Who Refused to Sit on the Sidelines (opens the original)
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To a firefighter who is inside one, a fire creates as much darkness as heat. Flames start bright but throw off smoke that can swathe everything in pitch black. Lieutenant Kevin Dowdell did not fight fires so much as he groped through and problem-solved them, relying on half-blind judgment and expertise—and his fellow firefighters to keep flaming debris off his back. At the cindering end of a successful 24-hour shift with the New York City Fire Department, Kevin would hang up his helmet, so ash-r
A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama (opens the original)
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Suavity is a sorely missed ingredient in the American presidency. The effortless charm of a Roosevelt or a Reagan, a Bush or a Clinton, projected a particular brand of power. Suave means a kind of athletic ease and self-command in difficult, spotlighted circumstances, the assurance that solutions are at hand if only we all hold our composure and act right-headedly. Here was the ultra-suave Barack Obama’s message to the basketball player Caitlin Clark in a small but noteworthy exchange over the W
The World Cup Could Not Be Americanized (opens the original)
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A World Cup on North American soil ended with the most thoroughly imported, overseas-style final match possible. The foreign tourists who tried to smuggle ranch dressing through TSA; the Norwegians who scarfed down Texas brisket while doing the Viking row at Dallas barbecue joints; the garish, out-of-place halftime show in a New Jersey football stadium—all of that Americanness was overcome in the end by the classic continental display of footwork and defense in Spain’s 1–0 victory over Argentina
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