This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Any person with a phone knows that spam calls are a real problem in the United States. But fighting them is like playing whack-a-mole.First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
The English-muffin problem
George T.
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Why Trump won’t win
Biden’s smart strategy for outmaneuvering Bibi
That’s not censorship.
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Have you listened lately to what Trump is saying?
A moral case against the Israeli hostage deal
The money always wins.
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Hillary Clinton: Hamas must go.
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Republicans can’t figure it out.
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Over and over during Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, lawyers showed pictures of the FTX founder living his best life. There he was at the Super Bowl flanked by Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. There he was on a private jet, sleeping with his hands folded. There he was onstage, in shorts and a T-shirt, with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. The very traits that made him a cause célèbre in Silicon Valley—his intellect, his obsession with scale, his story—turned into liabilities.
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What the 2024 election is really about for Trump supporters
New York is too expensive to even visit.
Elon Musk has owned Twitter for a year now. In that time, he has slashed the company’s value and rendered it unrecognizable to many users. Now the platform’s organizing principle is its owner’s whims.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Israel’s dangerous delusion
People are worrying about the wrong downtowns.
Donald Trump deserves a fair trial.
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The sociopaths among us—and how to avoid them
MAGA Bluey is stressing people out.
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China changed its mind about World War II.
In federal court this week, Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, testified against her former boss and boyfriend, Sam Bankman-Fried. His two fallen crypto enterprises offer an object lesson in how not to run a start-up.First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
Why the most successful marriages are start-ups, not mergers
Against barbarism
Gal Beckerman: “The left abandoned me.
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