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What to Expect from Trump’s State of the Union Address
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (135+ words) On Tuesday, President Trump will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to examine what to expect from the president's ... Panelists join to preview the president's upcoming…...
How the Supreme Court Spared America
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (133+ words) The ruling against Trump's tariffs is a major victory for the constitutional separation of powers, rule of law, and millions of American consumers and businesses. Rog" Karma: Get ready for zombie tariffs David Frum: The Supreme Court delivers Trump a…...
Why the 'Wuthering Heights' Movie Is Infantilizing
8+ hour, 18+ min ago (689+ words) Everyone is 12 now, all the time. A few months ago, the musician Patrick Cosmos shared a "new unified theory of American reality" that he called "everyone is twelve now'an attempt to explain an executive branch that endorses AI-generated videos of…...
What Pressure Does to an Athlete’s Body
8+ hour, 18+ min ago (149+ words) Stress isn't just mental. Something like that is what can happen to Olympic athletes on the ice or at the starting gate. Read: The man who broke physics Read: An Olympic trend that defies tradition She said of that restful…...
The Crisis in Polling Is a Problem for Democracy
18+ hour, 15+ min ago (298+ words) Gallup's presidential-approval poll is the latest casualty in a divided, suspicious nation. Marc Novicoff: Polling was quietly still bad in 2024 Gallup, who turned 35 in 1936, had launched a research company the year before. To promote his work, he undertook his own…...
The Supreme Court Delivers Trump a Humiliating Gift
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (70+ words) The Supreme Court Delivers Trump a Humiliating Gift'The Atlantic Finally, a check on the president's tariff powers. In the 1630s, King Charles I tried to tax English people without the consent of their legislature. He lost his head. In the 2020s, Donald…...
Get Ready for Zombie Tariffs
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (33+ words) Get Ready for Zombie Tariffs'The Atlantic Even after losing at the Supreme Court, Trump has plenty of ways to reconstruct his trade regime. The Trump tariffs are dead. Long live the Trump tariffs?...
The Supreme Court Isn’t a Rubber Stamp
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (15+ words) The Supreme Court Isn't a Rubber Stamp'The Atlantic Regardless, the tariffs will be back....
The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1919+ words) Are we in another acceleration phase for AI? Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Anil Dash: A huge part of the cultural tension around these things is everybody advocating them is like, Why wouldn't you love this? And everybody whose…...
Our Olympians Are Being Put in an Impossible Position
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (322+ words) American athletes have been asked to account for Trump'then attacked for doing so. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) pushes the myth that the Olympics are meant to be a safe, apolitical space. Tell that to the American athletes at this…...