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There's a belief that in America, pregnancy is getting deadlier by the year. That narrative doesn't hold up, @jerusalemdemsas writes, and is part of a larger issue: advocates often act as if doom and gloom is the only way to motivate change.
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"Trump is the first current or former president to be tried of any serious crime, and now he is the first to be convicted," writes @GrahamDavidA :
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“Eric” is flat-pack, prestige-ish television: easy to assemble from familiar narrative pieces, but fundamentally soulless, @sophieGG writes:
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Any act of procreation is a gamble with someone else’s life, writes @annalouiesuss . A new book explores how people might take that fact into consideration when contemplating childbirth:
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At first glance, “In a Violent Nature” might seem like a purely aesthetic exercise. But the experimental slasher film delivers an intriguing twist on a familiar genre, writes @davidlsims :
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The verdict, writes @DavidFrum , drives home to the voting public "that before [Donald] Trump was a constitutional criminal, he got his start as a squalid hush-money-paying, document-tampering, tabloid sleazeball."
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Yes, vegetables are healthy. No, you don’t need to sneak squash into mac and cheese to make sure your kid is nourished, @lsilverwoman reports:
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"A new filing in a lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia alleges that al-Qaeda had significant, indeed decisive, state support for its attacks," Daniel Benjamin and @sns_1239 write:
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The Atlantic
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In the Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal explores reunions and graduations, and revisits Deborah Copaken’s reflection on her 30th Harvard reunion. “No one’s life turned out exactly as anticipated, not even for the most ardent planner,” Copaken wrote.
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Harvard will no longer make statements about political matters that don't affect its core function directly. Other schools should follow suit, @conor64 writes.
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The Atlantic
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Is the rough start to this year’s summer-movie season a bad sign for Hollywood? Not exactly—but it suggests that the industry is changing, @shirklesxp reports:
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“[Trump] has been there all along, strutting on stages and slumping in courtrooms and making his plans to restore the country to his particular version of greatness. He has shown us who he is. Why is it so hard to believe him?” @MeganGarber writes.
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They were so, so close. The commentators on NASA's livestream sound very deflated right now.
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The Atlantic
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Better understanding the placenta—a temporary organ that appears during pregnancy—could be key to preventing stillbirths, @_okclaire reports for @undarkmag .
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The rise of rough sexual practices such as choking has complicated the way parents talk with their kids about sex, @stephmurrayyyy writes:
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The astronauts are fine, and officials don’t yet know what triggered the hold. But this afternoon, Boeing’s Starliner missed its scheduled liftoff window—the latest setback of a long series. @marinakoren reports:
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Pat McAfee "is an athlete, not a reporter, and when it comes to stuff like accuracy, he’s careful to set the bar very low," @DevinGordonX writes. Journalists are not happy about it—but, to put it mildly, McAfee couldn’t care less:
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Three Atlantic writers weigh in on what comes next:
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Yair Rosenberg
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I wrote about Biden's bold Gaza cease-fire gambit, what he hopes to gain by making this Israeli proposal public, and what could derail it in the days ahead:
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