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AI’s Unending Thirst
The technology is placing growing demands on our environment. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Erik Carter April 26, 2024, 11:57 AM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our…
Trump’s Legal Argument Is a Path to Dictatorship
The notion that Donald Trump’s supporters believe that he should be able to overthrow the government and get away with it sounds like hyperbole, an absurd and uncharitable caricature of conservative thought….
We’re All Reading Wrong
Reading, while not technically medicine, is a fundamentally wholesome activity. It can prevent cognitive decline, improve sleep, and lower blood pressure. In one study, book readers outlived their nonreading peers by nearly…
Columbia University’s Impossible Position
Updated at 10:58 a.m. ET on April 27, 2024. At Columbia University, administrators and pro-Palestinian students occupying the main quad on campus are in a standoff. President Minouche Shafik has satisfied neither…
A New Sweetener Has Joined the Ranks of Aspartame and Stevia
A few months ago, my doctor uttered a phrase I’d long dreaded: Your blood sugar is too high. With my family history of diabetes, and occasional powerful cravings for chocolate, I knew…
Bad Bunny Has It All—And That’s the Problem
Near the end of Bad Bunny’s 2022 World’s Hottest Tour in Las Vegas, all the lights went out. The Puerto Rican singer and rapper filled the darkness before the song “El Apagón”…
Is India an Autocracy?
Last October, Indian authorities revived legal proceedings against the novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. In a case first registered against her in 2010, Roy stood accused of “provocative speech” that aroused “enmity…
Trump Is Getting What He Wants
At today’s hearing on Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority appeared poised to give him what he most desires in the case: further delays…
How America Lost Sleep
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