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To attract tourists and foreign investment, Tanzania is taking the land of an ancient people. For @TheAtlantic ’s May 2024 cover story, Stephanie McCrummen reports on how “conservationist” has come to be a word the Maasai associate with their own doom:

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“I just wanted to keep on raising a pig, full meal after full meal, spring into summer into fall.” Four years before “Charlotte's Web,” E. B. White wrote this essay on the death of a beloved pig, reflecting on illness, caretaking, suffering, and community:

Death of a Pig

“I just wanted to keep on raising a pig, full meal after full meal, spring into summer into fall.”

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"Webster, in an early edition of his dictionary, goes out of his way to abuse the creature," John William De Forest wrote in The Atlantic in 1874. The dictionary called the domestic cat "a deceitful animal," "spiteful," and tolerated only to catch mice:

Modern Cats

“There is a prejudice against cats because dogs hate them. We defer overmuch to the opinion of the dog because he is ‘faithful.’”

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For centuries, Jews have been accused of preparing their Passover food with Christian blood. “Dismissing all of this as ancient history would be comforting,” @Yair_Rosenberg writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “But it’s not.”

The Passover Plot

The dark legacy and ongoing body count of an ancient anti-Semitic myth

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"What I witnessed seemed less likely to persuade than to give collective voice to righteous anger. A genuine sympathy for the suffering of Gazans mixed with a fervor and a politics that could border on the oppressive," @powellAtlantic writes:

The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’

What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?

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"Here are a few things that Donald Trump’s lawyer says a president ought to be immune from prosecution for doing," @GrahamDavidA writes: "Selling nuclear secrets; employing the U.S. military to assassinate a political rival; launching a coup."

The Supreme Court Goes Through the Looking Glass on Presidential Immunity

At this morning’s oral argument, the justices debated the ins and outs of Trump's dangerous proposition.

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The very seediness of the hush-money case, @qjurecic writes, "is a reminder of both a central controversy of Trump’s 2016 campaign and one of his key sources of appeal as he seeks office again: his contempt for women."

Trump’s Misogyny Is on Trial in New York

To read through the court filings is to be plunged back anew into the dizzying chaos of those last few weeks before the 2016 election.

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"Because art / can’t match life’s stride, or death’s. / Because my book has shorter legs. / Because it lags like a video streamed on unstable internet" Read a new poem by @CHotchandani :

My Book Had Come Undone

A poem for Wednesday

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Elon Musk’s car business looks more fragile than ever—but a new Tesla, which provides electricity instead of vehicles, is emerging, writes @matteo_wong .

Tesla Is Not the Next Ford. It’s the Next Con Ed.

Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling.

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"To get a sense of what might happen when the profit-seeking dial gets turned up too high in veterinary medicine, we need look no further than human health care." @helaineolen reports on the rise of Big Vet:

Why Your Vet Bill Is So High

Corporations and private-equity funds have been rolling up smaller chains and previously independent practices.

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Inflation has been stuck at around 3.5 percent for the past three months. What's going on? Rogé Karma explains:

The Inflation Plateau

Rates have been stuck at around 3.5 for the past three months. What’s going on?

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President Joe Biden has signed the so-called TikTok ban, initiating "what is likely to be a rushed, chaotic, technologically and logistically complex legal process that is likely to please almost no one," @cwarzel writes:

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"Elite universities are caught in a trap of their own making, one that has been a long time coming." Trenchant George Packer piece on how the very idea of the liberal university has shattered in the grip of the persistent left-wing orthodoxies of the 60s.

The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education

Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.

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AI made the novelist Rachel Khong consider limitlessness. Now she believes that human limits are what lead us to create meaningful art.

Would Limitlessness Make Us Better Writers?

AI embodies hypotheticals I can only imagine for myself. But I believe human impediments are what lead us to create meaningful art.

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Why does Taylor Swift see herself as an albatross? She can’t help identifying with the notorious bird from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, James Parker writes:

Why Does Taylor Swift See Herself as an Albatross?

She can’t help identifying with the notorious bird from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem.

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Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a new orthodoxy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university, George Packer writes. They're "caught in a trap of their own making, one that has been a long time coming":

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“If the practice evokes sentiment in you,” writes @arthurbrooks , “then study the faith to develop knowledge and opinions”:

How to Find Your Faith

The key to transcendence starts with a practice, not your feelings.

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"It is too late to stop the emergence of AI," Judith Donath and Bruce Schneier write. "Instead, we need to think about what we want next, how to design and nurture spaces of knowledge creation and communication for a human-centric world."

It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.

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A farm worker, some cattle herds, and scores of chickens have been recently infected with bird flu in the United States. “The virus has already affected our lives,” @KatherineJWu told @loracorkelley in The Atlantic Daily:

How Bird Flu Is Shaping People’s Lives

A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the disease sweeping through animals and raising food-safety questions

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President Joe Biden has signed the so-called TikTok ban, initiating "what is likely to be a rushed, chaotic, technologically and logistically complex legal process that is likely to please almost no one," @cwarzel writes.

The TikTok Ban Is a Disaster, Even If You Support It

No one has a plan for the app.

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“This is the saddest album I’ve heard in a long time… People wanted a boppy summer soundtrack, and they got an exorcism instead.” Brilliant @sophieGG on Taylor Swift:

Taylor Swift Is Stuck in the Story

Where does a woman go when she’s outgrown the narratives she’s telling?

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