“Democratic leaders seem determined not to allow anything to get in the way of winning Maine’s Senate seat, even if that requires willful blindness … But Democrats don’t need to repeat the mistakes made by Republicans,” Shannon A. Mullen argues: : Mark

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AI-powered drone interceptors are part of a set of technological advances in Ukraine that “have changed the war with Russia, and maybe all wars, forever,” @anneapplebaum reports:

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Brad Lander's challenge to incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10, one of the nation's most progressive congressional districts, has brought out the fractures of the Democratic Party's left wing, reports @russellberman.

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The latest flu shot is ready for review—but nearly a dozen experts, including former ACIP members and former HHS officials told @KatherineJWu they have never encountered such uncertainty about the basic government process of recommending the vaccines.

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Terry Pratchett, one of England’s funniest writers, is in danger of being lost to history, @helenlewis writes:

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino likes to say that “football unites the world.” But a few days out from the biggest men’s World Cup in history, his easy rhetoric is proving no match for the world’s more complicated realities, Chris Jones reports:

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The world’s richest men “have clearly left the world of consequences behind,” Noah Hawley writes. “Their actions are only ever judged by themselves.” Here’s what Hawley learned about the ultra-wealthy at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat:

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"I dreamed of the mountains again / and felt the rising joy / as the road wound upward" Read “The Road Wound Upward,” a poem by Karl Kirchwey:

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“The most frightening monster of all is not the sensational stuff of children’s stories," @Yair_Rosenberg writes of the Broadway play Giant, "but the propensity to monstrosity that lives within all of us”:

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AI-powered drone interceptors are part of a set of technological advances in Ukraine that “have changed the war with Russia, and maybe all wars, forever,” @anneapplebaum reports:

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“Few people speak publicly about wanting to ‘eliminate’ Down syndrome,” @sarahzhang wrote in 2020. “Yet individual choices are adding up to something very close to that.”

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RT @jonathanchait: Read @anneapplebaum's reported dispatch from Ukraine, which has fortified its defenses

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Trump’s choice for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, is both terrifying and predictable, @davidfrum argues.