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.AI was not always the hottest thing in tech. Now corporate America is leaning into its use of the term.
Trump’s trial date in March guarantees a political mess.
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The new old age
Trump’s mug shot has a silent message.
A crush can teach you a lot about yourself.
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Is Mississippi really as poor as Britain?
Make the collabs stop.
Give invasive species a job.
A Risk to Their DignityLive music has the power to connect, to make people feel.
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The sriracha shortage is a very bad sign.
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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.A four-day workweek sounds great in theory. But what would it take to actually make the practice sustainable?First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
When small-town pride sounds like anger
Is social media making America’s murder surge worse?
The gender war is over in Britain.
Updated at 6:48 p.m. ET on July 28, 2023This 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.Beer was once king. Now, with seltzers, canned cocktails, and other tasty beverages on the rise, what will become of brews?First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
Barbie is everything. Ken is everything else.
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Moralism is ruining cultural criticism.
The 2024 election could be the end of the cases against Donald Trump.
The wrath of Goodreads
American girlhood culture is really strange.
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The businessmen broke Hollywood.
Americans’ shopping habits have made us reliant on delivery workers—and helped UPS’s business boom. Now UPS workers are threatening to strike to get a piece of that success.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
When will the Southwest become unlivable?
Learn a foreign language before it’s too late.
The Republican lab-leak circus makes one important point.
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Joe Scarborough: “America is doing just fine.
This week, Meta launched its Twitter competitor: Instagram’s Threads. I chatted with my colleague Charlie Warzel, who covers technology, about why Threads is appealing to users, and what it would take for the platform to succeed.First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
“Step aside, Joe Biden.
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Elon Musk really broke Twitter this time.
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Why not Whitmer?
The ghost of a once era-defining show
How the vape shops won
Go ahead, try to explain milk.
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For many young adults and their parents, the words box tops evoke fond memories of cutting out cardboard rectangles and stuffing them into Ziploc bags to carry to school. The Box Tops for Education program, founded in 1996, is a General Mills initiative that allows families to redeem labels from eligible food and household products for 10-cent contributions to their schools. Over the past 25 years, the program has given nearly $1 billion to schools nationwide.