The historian Gordon Wood, who died on Sunday, devoted his career to a deceptively simple claim: The American Revolution was revolutionary, Craig Bruce Smith writes.

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This year’s Turning Point women’s summit was different than in years past, @elainejgodfrey reports: more Christian women’s empowerment, less electoral politics.

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Car headlights are way too bright—and Americans are missing out on a simple technology that would ease the problem of blinding bulbs, @Agmoseman argues.

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Answer today’s trivia from a story by @bhumikatharoor about Donald Trump’s fascination with mixed martial arts. Check your response and tackle two other questions:

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What does “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” written to prepare the Union and its soldiers for the terrible fight ahead, say about America itself? @JeffreyGoldberg on @TheAtlantic’s greatest poem and the 250th anniversary of the republic:

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The new Obama Presidential Center, in Chicago, is inspiring—but departs from other presidential libraries in a crucial, and risky, way, @ables_kelsey reports.

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Mass literacy restructured our consciousness, and now the rise of social media is again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person, @DKThomp argued in February:

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“In the past decade, a profound shift has taken place in the way we talk and think about UFOs,” Adam Kirsch writes—and films like Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” tap into the belief that there will be vindication through admission:

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The white identitarians have more cultural and political power today than they did at any point in the past half century—and now that DEI and anti-racism are in retreat, they're moving on to a more ambitious goal, @thomaschattwill argues.

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Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models:

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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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Hunter Biden’s return to public life has won him unexpected praise—but there’s a lesson he should learn from his father’s presidency, @GrahamDavidA argues:

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"For many people, the talents that bloom later in life are more consequential than the ones that bloom early," David Brooks wrote in 2024:

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Steven Spielberg’s captivating new film, “Disclosure Day,” updates one of his tried-and-true premises—the appearance of aliens on Earth—for an exploration of present-day American life, writes David Sims:

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The entire University of California system abandoned the use of standardized tests in admissions during the pandemic. Now a huge share of STEM and economics faculty is demanding the tests are considered again, @imkahloon reports:

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.@bhumikatharoor explores what Donald Trump can learn from mixed martial arts: “In a fight, you can’t wriggle away from the consequences of your actions … And nobody is going to pardon you out of getting hit.”

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Savvy travelers rely on an array of algorithms to predict the cost of airfare. But high jet-fuel costs are overwhelming these methods—and waiting to buy tickets is suddenly becoming a riskier gamble, Henry Grabar writes:

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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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The Founders could never have imagined America’s modern information environment—and the “question for our democracy is whether a system designed for the communications technologies of the 18th century can survive those of the 21st,” @JeffreyRosen argues.

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A congressional district “should look like the mouth of a creature opening up to devour you” and it “should be red all over.” @petridishes imagines the Supreme Court majority’s explanation for their recent decisions on the Voting Rights Act: