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Fascinating piece in which Rose Horowitch explains how lavish gifts to make medical schools tuition-free seem to have backfired, making student bodies wealthier and less diverse. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Bagels are a bad sandwich bread and fried chicken is a bad sandwich filling, by which I mean that sandwiches thus made, even if tasty, add up to less than the sum of their parts

For everyone's convenience down the stretch, I've generated an election coverage template. Every possible combination should work: "How [young/old] [ethnic group] [men/women] who lean [Democratic/Republican] in [swing state] could be the key to a [Trump/Harris] victory"

I've always wished someone would ask Trump how he plans to prevent this election from being stolen when, by his own account, he was unable to prevent a stolen election when he actually controlled the government.

A great profile of Mike Solana, the hilarious and pugnacious mind behind Pirate Wires, the latest anti-media media startup for VCs and VC wannabes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

There are a lot of funny moments in this Chris Beam profile of Mike Solana, but my favorite is this rigorous intellectual exchange between Solana and Ben Smith Ben Smith theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Incredible rage bait from media elites Kevin T. Dugan and Simon van Zuylen-Wood. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Looking forward to the Jets trading 9 first round draft picks to acquire two-time Super Bowl champion Jordan Love in 2038

This is an interesting thread, but the suggestion that the Democratic base is self-interestedly opposed to economic populism is empirically false theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Remember last year when Trump nominated Matt Gaetz to be attorney general?

I read some Pete Hegseth books. They are *wild* theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Rogé Karma has written the definitive piece on how Democrats made a generational error on immigration policy and the Latino vote theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"I believe that the illiberal-left movement has not merely declined," Jonathan Chait argues. "It is dead, or at least barely breathing. When was the last time you saw a social-media mob have any effect outside social media?" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I wanted to flag an egregious inaccurate reading of my Atlantic story by Andrew Sullivan. One point I made in the piece is that the spate of cancellations and intimidation on the left is not the same thing as “wokeness.” [Thread].

Here's why it's so hard to buy the right kind of LED light bulb: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Gilad Edelman gets it. Bad lightbulbs are ruining everything. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Look it’s a real outcome of decades of enforcement using the “consumer welfare standard”

According to Ruth Marcus, her column criticizing Bezos's edict was spiked because it was speculative to suggest that Bezos's edict would lead to columns being spiked: newyorker.com/news/essay/why…

Extremely interesting interview here with David Autor, who coined the term "China Shock" and knows as much about the costs of free trade as anyone theatlantic.com/economy/archiv…

In which Chris Beam travels to the Netherlands to confront the Chinese filmmakers who ripped off his story to make their movie: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…