Political candidates who can make content and are more native to social-media platforms may run more successful campaigns, Rob Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, tells @cwarzel. Watch Galaxy Brain:

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The real tradwives of America largely have one thing in common: They can’t afford child care, @fhill_official reports.

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Attacks on James Talarico show the GOP’s narrow, anxious definition of masculinity—and how difficult making a positive case for the party’s own candidate is, Helen Lewis argues: : Danielle Villasana / Getty

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The Republican Party’s refusal to accept the prospect of Spencer Pratt’s defeat in the L.A. mayor’s race is bizarre and revealing, @jonathanchait argues:

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lowa now joins a list of states that Democrats are desperate to flip—and those who plan to spend hundreds of millions in Texas might be considering spending a fraction of that money in Iowa for possibly better results, @elainejgodfrey wrote last week:

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Lawyers for the Kennedy Center have ordered staff to remove all references to Trump from the institution’s signs, documents, and more, according to a memo obtained by Janay Kingsberry.

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The 100-year-old D-Day veteran Joe Picard is one of few people left with a memory of the greatest military operation of the 20th century—and his stories are a marker against which to measure how much he, and the country, has changed, Kevin Maurer writes:

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At major tech companies, a growing rank of philosophers with Ph.D.s and flush compensation packages are helping shape the technology’s future, @LilaShroff reports.

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As the FIFA World Cup approaches, take a look at some of the world’s most unusual soccer fields throughout the 21st century via @TheAtlPhoto (from 2018):

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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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“Football unites the world,” Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s president, likes to say. But global tensions—and Infantino’s tendency to accommodate strongmen—have set the stage for a fraught World Cup instead, Chris Jones reports:

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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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Being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience, the physicist Alan Lightman writes: “The question is: What are we to make of the fantastically improbable fact of our existence, our moment of life?”