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The Internet Is in Crisis

For 15 minutes, the celebrity-gossip blogger Perez Hilton livestreamed his violent self-harm without anyone intervening....

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Cruelty and a Blue Bunny

Not everyone who has a child is fit to love them....

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The Atlantic Announces Madeleine Carlisle and Danyel Smith as Staff Writers

Today The Atlantic is announcing two new staff writers: Madeleine Carlisle and Danyel Smith. This marks a homecoming for Madeleine, who was an Atlantic editorial fellow in 2018 and 2019, and went on t...

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The Risks of a Chatbot Childhood

AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains....

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The Most Basic Step of the Ebola Response Is Falling Short

Curbing the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will require stepping up testing....

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Tina Peters Is Back

Newly out of prison, she is back to trying to prove election fraud....

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Why I Love Blue Books

There’s no better way for students to show their professors what they’re capable of....

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Iran Goes Looking for Love in Jordan

Tehran wants the Arab public to balk at the cost of allying with the United States....

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Ukraine’s Fleeting Turnaround

The chorus of optimism has quieted on several fronts, including Zelensky’s struggle with corruption and his relations with Trump....

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Trump’s Economic Blame Game

The private sector can’t fully fix the problems that the Iran war has caused....

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Icarus in the Faculty Lounge

The Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s unlikely ascent has come to a tragic end....

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Why Is The Odyssey Rated R?

The U.S. is a relative outlier in keeping Christopher Nolan’s movie away from younger audiences....

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Connectivity Is Spoiling Camp

Kids sent away during the summer used to get true distance from their parents. No longer....

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The American West Knows How to Flee Fires

Evacuation has become a familiar, terrible summer ordeal....

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A Shortage of Weapons Is Shaping the War With Iran

Trump fumed at subordinates who showed him the perils of escalation....

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Do Not Paint Granite!

The latest Trump renovation project would violate a basic rule of building maintenance....

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The Academics Who Caught Fire

The French theorists of the postwar era argued that the author’s life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin’s lively new book proves them wrong....

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The Death of Romance

More and more young people are giving up on love....

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Next Big Challenge

He called out Democrats. Now he needs to bring them together....

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Tony, Before He Was Bourdain

A new biopic uses the late chef turned TV personality to examine how a young person comes to love cooking....

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A Spider-Man Ad Beamed Directly to Your Car

What was BMW thinking?...

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Are AI Companies Really Destroying Books?

Despite the panic online, there are plenty of unanswered questions....

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The Humiliated President

As Donald Trump faces one embarrassment after another, he is attacking those he blames....

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Photos: The Dogs That Surf

Recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in dog-surfing competitions, many them fundraising events for animal and environmental nonprofit groups....

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The Democrats’ Riskiest Midterm Play

They have been backing independent Senate candidates in red states. But Montana is not working as planned....

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The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson

Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal....

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Liberals Are Now Fighting a Two-Front War

Leftists like Abdul El-Sayed will take over the Democratic Party unless the center-left adapts to their rise....

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A Key Belief About the 2024 Election Isn’t True

Joe Biden’s climate agenda actually did win votes for Democrats—just not quite enough....

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Did al-Qaeda Succeed?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide whether the terrorist organization got what it wanted....

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Trump Tests the Definition of Insider Trading

A new Truth Social subscription service is another way for the president to profit from his office....

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Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous

The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office....

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Now, Thanks to AI, You Never Have to Speak to Your Kids Again

“cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid'...

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Stop Calling Siblings ‘Gifts’

The term assumes that adding a child to a family is for the best. But that’s not always the case....

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A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence....

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One Problem With Attacking the Smithsonian? Americans Like It.

Coming after a history museum may not be the base-galvanizing issue Trump thinks it is....

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Suddenly, Communists Are Everywhere

The Trump administration would like you to worry like it’s 1979....

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What if Freud Was Right?

A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness....

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Domestic-Abuse Allegations in the Age of Trump

Republicans have been slow to call for an Ohio congressman to end his reelection campaign....

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Trump’s ‘Blame America First’ Doctrine

The president would rather condemn Minnesota than Iran....

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2024 Was Not What It Seemed

Donald Trump’s big gains with Black, Hispanic, and young voters suggested a major shift. Less than two years later, the president has lost those new supporters....

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Photos: Wildfires Burn Through Spokane Neighborhoods

Tens of thousands of residents have been forced to flee as three fast-moving fires burned through forests and residential areas in Spokane, Washington, over the weekend. More than 600 structures have ...

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