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Listen1.0x 0:0015:13 Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining. The sawmills that made the city rich in the late 19th century have been repurposed as a museum. One of the Victorian mansions long since abandoned by the old lumber barons is open for tours, but tourists are scarce. Clinton has shrunk to about 24,000 people, and the town center, along the Mississippi River, feels nearly empty.
Nazi Analogies Rarely Help
A new Israeli documentary provoking both record-breaking festival applause and unhinged condemnation is called NAZA—a title with a suggestive sting. Hebrew speakers will recognize the military acronym for nezek agavi, or “collateral damage.” But for anyone else encountering the word, it might present as a twisted portmanteau that blends Gaza and Nazi, or at least nudges the mind in the direction of gas chambers. This doesn’t seem coincidental to me.
John Fetterman’s Right-Wing Fundraising Deals
A Republican fundraising consultant alerted her colleagues this month in a private message about a hot new business opportunity from an unlikely source: Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democrat. “I thought you would be interested in this high performing Fetterman copy,” wrote Leah Mergener, an account associate at the GOP-aligned firm Blitz Digital Group.
Why Do AI Agents Sound So Frustrated?
Many of the most beloved robots in pop culture are celebrated precisely because they are so, well, robotic. Think back to Star Trek’s Data or HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that,” HAL intones in a measured baritone. These robots and AI systems sound serious, sober, calm—and, most important, authoritative. So it’s jarring to look under the hood of the most powerful AI systems, and discover that they sound like petulant teenagers.
Mental Health Is Now a Marketing Tool for Weight Loss
Noom, the popular weight-loss app, prompts its users not only to log their meals and exercise but also to gaze at paintings. The “Mindful Art Break” feature includes images of such works as Claude Monet’s Woman With a Parasol—Madame Monet and Her Son and Franz Marc’s The Bewitched Mill, neither of which seems to have anything to do with body fat. Breath work, meditation, and lessons in cognitive-behavioral-therapy techniques are also available on the app.
Why Did Wallace Shawn Liken Israelis to Nazis?
This past weekend, a deplorable minute-long video appeared on my X feed. In it, the instantly recognizable actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, most famous for his role as Vizzini in the classic 1987 film The Princess Bride, delivers a hateful rant belied by his grandfatherly demeanor and dulcet tones. He says, The Israelis invaded somebody else’s territory, they took people’s homes, and they did many of the things that the Nazis did to the Jews. You can’t be more evil than what they’re doing.
Everyone in Gaza Is a Sea Person
Here in Gaza, war has changed everything, even the sea. During the long, hot summer, children went to the beach either early in the morning or just before sunset. They stepped around piles of garbage, and the tents of displaced families, to wade into water contaminated by sewage. And yet, they went. We all did. And I think we always will. I recently started aiming to take 10,000 steps a day, to get back in shape. To reach that number, I walk from my home to the seafront road and back.
Can You Fantasize Your Way to a Better Life?
Gillian Anderson is an actor, but she has also become something of a fairy godmother for sex. On the TV show Sex Education, she plays the delightfully frank sex therapist Jean Milburn. In the recent film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, she’s an erotically confident older woman opposite a sex-timid Zoomer. She once wore a dress covered in vulvas to the Golden Globes. She launched a soft-drink brand named G Spot.
The Atlantic Announces Roles for Zachary Fryer-Biggs, Sophie Haigney, Jebediah Reed, Kevin Roose, Lindsey Sitz, Alex Stockton, and Robert F. Worth
Today The Atlantic is announcing seven new roles in the newsroom: Sophie Haigney and Robert F. Worth as staff writers; Zachary Fryer-Biggs, Jebediah Reed, and Alex Stockton as senior editors; Kevin Roose as a contributing writer; and Lindsey Sitz as a producer for video podcasts.
The Family That Refused to Vanish
One of psychology’s most elusive concepts is the idea of the self. In his 1993 classic, Listening to Prozac, the psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer observed that the newly popular antidepressant might not just mitigate disease; it might also reshape identity.