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The Feds Are Coming for the Secret Tool Landlords Use to Keep Rents High
A smoke-filled room sets off the alarm in Washington.
We Hosted a Podcast About Creative Work for Four Years. Here’s What We Learned.
“Every huge thing is composed of a lot of very small things.
The Chase Infinite Money ‘Glitch’ Proved Young People Don’t Understand Checks.
Can Gen Zs even write checks? Felix says no. Emily says yes. They both wish checks would go away.
A ‘miracle molecule’ could cut fentanyl deaths in half — or lead more into addiction
A plan to expand access to the drug treatment is hung up on fears of a black market, despite bipartisan support.
Supreme Court declines to block Biden family planning rules in Oklahoma
The state lost millions in federal funding because it refused to offer patients a national hotline number for information about abortion.
‘Most people are confused’: What to know about the latest Covid shot
While the risk of hospitalization and death is nowhere near what it was in 2021, there is still a danger, particularly for the elderly or those with compromised immune systems.
Parents can’t function they’re so stressed, surgeon general warns
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump want to provide relief, though they disagree on the details.
Dr. Fauci was hospitalized with West Nile virus and is now recovering at home
The former top U.S. infectious disease expert is expected to make a full recovery.
Weed, wages and same-sex marriage: The most intriguing ballot measures that voters will decide in November
Across the U.S. in November, voters will weigh proposals on election policies, minimum wage increases and marijuana legalization.
Trump’s Wall Street pitch: Punishing tariffs, low taxes, ‘explosive’ growth
Trump arrived in New York amid growing concerns among some investors about his economic plans as Harris casts his agenda as a financially calamitous wishlist.
Harris targets small business tax break in contrast with Trump’s corporate tax cuts
The vice president looks to beef up her economic plans ahead of next week’s debate.
How Republicans and Democrats paint starkly different pictures of America
This summer’s conventions featured strongly diverging visions of the future — and the present.
Kamala Harris Highlights “Trump Abortion Bans” Across U.S., Vows to Restore Roe v. Wade
Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump focused heavily on abortion rights and the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Trump repeated his false claim that Democrats support infanticide, and claimed that allowing individual states to set their own laws on abortion was an improvement. Harris highlighted the risk to pregnant people now navigating a patchwork of laws and restrictions in the U.S.
Where Trump and Harris Stand With Donations
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“HOLY COW!!!!!” read the subject line of a fundraising email just after the debate on Tuesday evening. Democrats and their allies were quick to use Kamala Harris’s strong performance to ask voters to chip in.
OpenAI’s Big Reset
After weeks of speculation about a new and more powerful AI product in the works, OpenAI today announced its first “reasoning model.” The program, known as o1, may in many respects be OpenAI’s most powerful AI offering yet, with problem-solving capacities that resemble those of a human mind more than any software before. Or, at least, that’s how the company is selling it.
As with most OpenAI research and product announcements, o1 is, for now, somewhat of a tease.
The Stars Who Came to Hate Their Fame
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The last time The Atlantic put a modern pop star on its cover was 2008, when Britney Spears, clad in oversize sunglasses, occupied a piece of media real estate usually devoted to probing the fate of democracy. Her appearance shocked many readers.
Social-Media Companies’ Worst Argument
When the tobacco industry was accused of marketing harmful products to teens, its leaders denied the charge but knew it was true. Even worse, the industry had claimed that smoking made people healthier—by reducing anxiety, say, or slimming waistlines.
The social-media industry is using a similar technique today. Instead of acknowledging the damage their products have done to teens, tech giants insist that they are blameless and that their products are mostly harmless.
“By the Fire We Carry”: Cherokee Author Rebecca Nagle on the Ongoing Fight for Tribal Sovereignty
We’re joined by award-winning Cherokee writer and journalist Rebecca Nagle, whose new book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land, has just been released. By taking a look at the more than a century-long fight for tribal sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma, Nagle investigates the development and future of tribal law since the beginning of colonial relations between Indigenous peoples and European settlers, from the Trail of Tears to the “war on terror.
“On Thin Ice”: Western Nations Crack Down on Climate Activists with Arrests & Jail Terms
As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for using their rights to free expression.
“Another Appalling Year” of Violence Against Land Defenders as Nearly 200 Killed Worldwide in 2023
At least 196 environmental defenders were killed last year, most of them Indigenous or Afro-descendant. The deadliest country was Colombia, where at least 79 land, water and climate defenders were killed.
Entitlement Is Not an Identity. It’s a Trap.
In July of this year, a U.S.-based company called CrowdStrike released an update for its widely used cybersecurity software, inadvertently triggering a massive system crash. In the hours that followed, what has since been described as the “largest outage in history” affected nearly every facet of our global society. On X, the phrase Leave the world behind went viral.
The Feds Are Coming for the Secret Tool Landlords Use to Keep Rents High
A smoke-filled room sets off the alarm in Washington.
We Hosted a Podcast About Creative Work for Four Years. Here’s What We Learned.
“Every huge thing is composed of a lot of very small things.
The Chase Infinite Money ‘Glitch’ Proved Young People Don’t Understand Checks.
Can Gen Zs even write checks? Felix says no. Emily says yes. They both wish checks would go away.
A ‘miracle molecule’ could cut fentanyl deaths in half — or lead more into addiction
A plan to expand access to the drug treatment is hung up on fears of a black market, despite bipartisan support.
Supreme Court declines to block Biden family planning rules in Oklahoma
The state lost millions in federal funding because it refused to offer patients a national hotline number for information about abortion.
‘Most people are confused’: What to know about the latest Covid shot
While the risk of hospitalization and death is nowhere near what it was in 2021, there is still a danger, particularly for the elderly or those with compromised immune systems.
Parents can’t function they’re so stressed, surgeon general warns
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump want to provide relief, though they disagree on the details.
Dr. Fauci was hospitalized with West Nile virus and is now recovering at home
The former top U.S. infectious disease expert is expected to make a full recovery.