The Northeast Gets a Taste of Fire Season

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This morning, five days after The Atlantic published a profile of then–CNN CEO Chris Licht by staff writer Tim Alberta, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery announced that Licht would be leaving CNN immediately. Read the profile here.

About 75 million people across the country are under air-quality alerts. Below is a brief guide to what comes next, and what this moment explains about our warming planet.

First, here are three more recent stories from The Atlantic:

• Chris Licht’s fundamental mistake
• The next crisis will start with empty office buildings.
• French people are fighting over giant pools of