The UFC cage fights on the White House lawn are a reminder that Trump “wants to associate his presidency and himself with the violent domination and humiliation of rivals,” @conor64 argues:

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Joyce Beatty, the lawmaker fighting Donald Trump’s control of the Kennedy Center, says she feels vindicated with recent rulings in her favor—but saving the center legally may be easier than restoring it institutionally, @janaykingsberry reports:

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A new book argues that understanding how varied the institution of marriage has been over time can help it thrive now, Honor Jones writes.

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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.”