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The work of building efficient, scalable AI systems hasn't been done, Alex Reisner argues. He explores the industry's inefficiency, and how it’s costing the rest of us:
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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July 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The work of building efficient, scalable AI systems hasn't been done, Alex Reisner argues. He explores the industry's inefficiency, and how it’s costing the rest of us:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Critics on the left and the right are, for different reasons, obscuring the Democratic Party’s long commitment to universal health care, @jonathanchait argues:
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You Don’t Need to Vote for Socialists to Get Universal Health Care
Critics on the left and the right are, for different reasons, obscuring the Democratic Party’s long commitment to this cause.
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July 15, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Critics on the left and the right are, for different reasons, obscuring the Democratic Party’s long commitment to universal health care, @jonathanchait argues:
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold birthright citizenship is less a victory than a reprieve, Adam Serwer argues.
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July 4, 2026 at 3:46 AM
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold birthright citizenship is less a victory than a reprieve, Adam Serwer argues.
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Many Americans assume that if they can afford paid help in older age, they won’t need to rely on kin—but this myth will leave them incredibly unprepared, Stephanie H. Murray argues.
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Americans Are in Denial About Elder Care
Many assume that if they can afford paid help in older age, they won’t need to rely on kin. They’re wrong.
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June 23, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Many Americans assume that if they can afford paid help in older age, they won’t need to rely on kin—but this myth will leave them incredibly unprepared, Stephanie H. Murray argues.
www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
The latest flu shot is ready for review—but nearly a dozen experts, including former ACIP members and former HHS officials told @KatherineJWu they have never encountered such uncertainty about the basic government process of recommending the vaccines.
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Flu Vaccines Should Not Be This Hard
Normally, the CDC’s vaccine advisors weigh in on flu vaccines in June. This year, the panel is in disarray.
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June 19, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The latest flu shot is ready for review—but nearly a dozen experts, including former ACIP members and former HHS officials told @KatherineJWu they have never encountered such uncertainty about the basic government process of recommending the vaccines.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
Ahead of the midterms, the Democratic base is raring to go—but it’s also demanding a reckoning from its highest ranks that hasn’t come, @elainejgodfrey reports:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Democratic Base Is Angry
Is the party paying attention?
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June 19, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Ahead of the midterms, the Democratic base is raring to go—but it’s also demanding a reckoning from its highest ranks that hasn’t come, @elainejgodfrey reports:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gift Article from The Atlantic archives April 13, 2023:
What if ice cream is actually good for you? @davidmjohns reports on the finding that keeps baffling nutrition scientists:
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What if ice cream is actually good for you? @davidmjohns reports on the finding that keeps baffling nutrition scientists:
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Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result: Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You?
Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.
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May 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Gift Article from The Atlantic archives April 13, 2023:
What if ice cream is actually good for you? @davidmjohns reports on the finding that keeps baffling nutrition scientists:
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What if ice cream is actually good for you? @davidmjohns reports on the finding that keeps baffling nutrition scientists:
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... When it comes to preventing an outbreak from becoming a pandemic, insisting on the wrong answer to that most central question—How does it spread?—may well be worse than not having an answer at all.
The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth
Knowing how a virus spreads is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.
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May 13, 2026 at 6:35 PM
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... When it comes to preventing an outbreak from becoming a pandemic, insisting on the wrong answer to that most central question—How does it spread?—may well be worse than not having an answer at all.
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The poor quality of this putative strategy is a reminder of what happens when unserious people are asked to undertake a serious job. The US always needs experienced national-security officials.
The poor quality of this putative strategy is a reminder of what happens when unserious people are asked to undertake a serious job. The US always needs experienced national-security officials.
The Trump Counterterrorism Strategy Is a Dangerous Joke
The policy is unfocused, run by amateurs, and concerned more with the president’s many grievances than the security of the United States.
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May 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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The poor quality of this putative strategy is a reminder of what happens when unserious people are asked to undertake a serious job. The US always needs experienced national-security officials.
The poor quality of this putative strategy is a reminder of what happens when unserious people are asked to undertake a serious job. The US always needs experienced national-security officials.
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Since Trump took office, the SEC has made it harder for small & activist investors to raise concerns through the government filing system EDGAR. Now they’re pushing back with their own alternative platform, which they call the Proxy Open Exchange — or POE.
Since Trump took office, the SEC has made it harder for small & activist investors to raise concerns through the government filing system EDGAR. Now they’re pushing back with their own alternative platform, which they call the Proxy Open Exchange — or POE.
The SEC tried to silence activist investors. Now they're fighting back.
Small investors, shut out of an SEC communication platform called EDGAR, built their own. They call it POE and say it will increase transparency.
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May 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Since Trump took office, the SEC has made it harder for small & activist investors to raise concerns through the government filing system EDGAR. Now they’re pushing back with their own alternative platform, which they call the Proxy Open Exchange — or POE.
Since Trump took office, the SEC has made it harder for small & activist investors to raise concerns through the government filing system EDGAR. Now they’re pushing back with their own alternative platform, which they call the Proxy Open Exchange — or POE.
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This snowmelt crisis is having dire impacts on the Colorado River, one of the most crucial water sources in the West, which provides water for 40 million people across 7 states. River flow in some areas on the Colorado had slowed to a trickle last week.
This snowmelt crisis is having dire impacts on the Colorado River, one of the most crucial water sources in the West, which provides water for 40 million people across 7 states. River flow in some areas on the Colorado had slowed to a trickle last week.
This summer, the American water crisis becomes real
Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.
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May 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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This snowmelt crisis is having dire impacts on the Colorado River, one of the most crucial water sources in the West, which provides water for 40 million people across 7 states. River flow in some areas on the Colorado had slowed to a trickle last week.
This snowmelt crisis is having dire impacts on the Colorado River, one of the most crucial water sources in the West, which provides water for 40 million people across 7 states. River flow in some areas on the Colorado had slowed to a trickle last week.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... last week, Chief Justice John Roberts gave a speech where he insisted the justices were not “political actors,” but the court’s last-minute intervention in favor of Alabama violates every norm the court claims to follow.
In approving Alabama gerrymander, the Roberts Court shows its naked political bias
The justices tossed precedents to allow Republicans to dismantle yet another majority-Black district.
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May 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... last week, Chief Justice John Roberts gave a speech where he insisted the justices were not “political actors,” but the court’s last-minute intervention in favor of Alabama violates every norm the court claims to follow.
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President Trump said he does not know the contractor who is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it.
President Trump said he does not know the contractor who is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it.
Trump changes story on Reflecting Pool contractor
President Trump said Tuesday he does not know the contractor who is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it. Renovation of the poo…
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May 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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President Trump said he does not know the contractor who is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it.
President Trump said he does not know the contractor who is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it.
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Three Republican senators broke with their leadership and voted to advance a Democratic-sponsored resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act to halt the conflict with Iran unless Congress formally authorizes further military action.
Three Republican senators broke with their leadership and voted to advance a Democratic-sponsored resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act to halt the conflict with Iran unless Congress formally authorizes further military action.
3 GOP senators break with leadership, vote to advance resolution to end Iran war
Three Republican senators broke with their leadership Wednesday and voted to advance a Democratic-sponsored resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act to halt the conflict with Iran unless Congress f…
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May 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Three Republican senators broke with their leadership and voted to advance a Democratic-sponsored resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act to halt the conflict with Iran unless Congress formally authorizes further military action.
Three Republican senators broke with their leadership and voted to advance a Democratic-sponsored resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act to halt the conflict with Iran unless Congress formally authorizes further military action.
“I was born in 1933, and much of what I remember as a little girl was defined by either the war or what we called, simply, sickness,” Fran Moreland Johns writes. “The rejection of science is sending us back to those dark ages,” she argues.
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I Remember America Before the Measles Vaccine
And I wish Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did too.
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May 11, 2026 at 6:58 PM
“I was born in 1933, and much of what I remember as a little girl was defined by either the war or what we called, simply, sickness,” Fran Moreland Johns writes. “The rejection of science is sending us back to those dark ages,” she argues.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock:
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Rock and Roll Faces the Inevitable
Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney are wringing great art and performance out of the relationship between the present and the past.
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May 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock:
www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
Gift Article from The Atlantic Archives Feb 13, 2017:
Neurogastronomy takes a multidisciplinary approach to food, blending the expertise of scientists, chefs, clinicians, & agriculture professionals. Inborn taste inclinations are not immutable.
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Neurogastronomy takes a multidisciplinary approach to food, blending the expertise of scientists, chefs, clinicians, & agriculture professionals. Inborn taste inclinations are not immutable.
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The Science That Could Make You Crave Broccoli More Than Chocolate
Neurogastronomy wants to rewire how people perceive flavors—and may be able to help those who have lost their sense of taste.
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May 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Gift Article from The Atlantic Archives Feb 13, 2017:
Neurogastronomy takes a multidisciplinary approach to food, blending the expertise of scientists, chefs, clinicians, & agriculture professionals. Inborn taste inclinations are not immutable.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Neurogastronomy takes a multidisciplinary approach to food, blending the expertise of scientists, chefs, clinicians, & agriculture professionals. Inborn taste inclinations are not immutable.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
President Trump’s global allies and rivals once viewed his approach to international relations as strategic unpredictability—now it feels more like destabilizing unreliability, officials tell Vivian Salama
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Trump Has Gone From Unpredictable to Unreliable
Allies and rivals alike are less likely to give the president what he seeks.
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May 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
President Trump’s global allies and rivals once viewed his approach to international relations as strategic unpredictability—now it feels more like destabilizing unreliability, officials tell Vivian Salama
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Trump has said the ballroom’s construction would cost $400 million and use private funds, but he had not proposed a number for security costs.
Trump has said the ballroom’s construction would cost $400 million and use private funds, but he had not proposed a number for security costs.
Democrats vow to fight $1 billion Senate security proposal for White House ballroom
Republicans returning to Washington on Monday are facing questions about a $1 billion Senate security proposal that could help pay for President Donald Trump’s ballroom.
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May 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Trump has said the ballroom’s construction would cost $400 million and use private funds, but he had not proposed a number for security costs.
Trump has said the ballroom’s construction would cost $400 million and use private funds, but he had not proposed a number for security costs.
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The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot for giving advice on how to carry out the rampage.
The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot for giving advice on how to carry out the rampage.
Lawsuit blames ChatGPT maker OpenAI for bot helping plan a mass shooting
The widow of a man killed in a mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the artificial intelligence chatbot for contributing to the tragedy.
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May 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot for giving advice on how to carry out the rampage.
The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot for giving advice on how to carry out the rampage.