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Vacations can help travelers explore new places with a fresh curiosity—but that mindset doesn’t need to be reserved for trips abroad, @RafaelaJinich writes. Atlantic writers and editors share their advice on how to rediscover the places they know best:
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The push to shut down ICE facilities in blue states has potential to backfire for immigration activists, @nickmiroff reports. He explores why the keep-ICE-out approach has downsides that Democrats rarely acknowledge:
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To hear what's unusual about country artist Ella Langley, you have to listen closely and pick up on what she's not saying, writes @skornhaber:
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“If random disclosure of common-sense-defying detail is your idea of a searing, poignant journey into the light of faith,” there’s plenty of it in J. D. Vance’s new book, "Communion," Matthew Walther writes.
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Pete Hegseth’s message to pilots—that they can break flight rules without consequences, so long as what they do looks cool—is making an already dangerous job more lethal, @BrynnTannehill argues:
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” features biblical themes and symbols that aren’t present in Homer’s poem. @LuisParrales_ argues that this doesn’t mean the film is Christian—but it is “God-haunted”:
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“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” @jkirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
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Autism diagnoses have increased in the past two decades, driven in part by a rise in milder forms of the condition, @OlgaKhazan reports. She spoke with researchers who worry that many of these diagnoses may be inaccurate:
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A faction of the right is angry over diverse casting in “The Odyssey,” showing that it imagines “antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe … in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist,” @AdamSerwer argues.
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The Atlantic’s editors and writers have selected 25 books to suit every mood this summer. If you’re searching for a cult classic to obsess over this season, Walt Hunter recommends “Wicked Enchantment.” See more recommendations:
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“School is meant to prepare students for the real world, but too many institutions are training kids to be silent,” the student-newspaper editors at Georgetown Day School, Annabelle Garland, Jacob Blane, and Sam Gross, argue:
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A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” @Craig_A_Spencer argues:
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Text is no longer the medium that we use to spread information or culture—a change that will have “really far-reaching effects,” @rosehorowitch argues. She speaks with @HannaRosin about what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”:
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Trump resumed the war with Iran knowing that military force could not reopen the Strait of Hormuz—and energy reserves and political patience are quickly winding down, @thomaswright08 argues.
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Many Americans are sourcing peptide from sketchy online vendors—but these drugs may soon be easy to get through mainstream channels, @tebartl reports:
Donald Trump's executive order to place signs outside the Smithsonian “reflects only the limitations of the Trump administration’s power in this instance, as well as a weakness in its campaign to seize the American story,” @ables_kelsey argues:
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When does middle age actually start? When does it end? Julie Beck goes on a frustrating quest to find the answer to this very fraught question:
“Mating in Captivity” captured something essential about eroticism in marriage—and 20 years later, its author has a theory about America’s sex recession, @fhill_official writes.
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A faction of the right is angry over diverse casting in “The Odyssey,” showing that it imagines “antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe … in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist,” @AdamSerwer argues.
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The Jon Ossoff hype has grown stronger in recent weeks, @GrahamDavidA writes. He shares five theories to explain why the senator from Georgia is capturing 2028 attention right now:
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