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Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.People hate being bored. Researchers show that we will go to almost any length to avoid boredom. That can even include giving ourselves painful electrical shocks to stave off ennui—experiments have found that many college-age subjects will actually do this rather than face as little as 15 minutes of doing nothing. Indeed, one of the worst parts of life for many people during the COVID-19 lockdowns was the sheer boredom of being stuck at home, which scholars have shown was associated…
Last night, the weather was chilly outside in Des Moines, Iowa, and things were even frostier at the debate between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley at Drake University.The earlier, more populated GOP primary debates were punchy affairs, featuring notable collisions between candidates, many of which were entertaining and some of which were even illuminating. Whittled down to two candidates—Donald Trump, as usual, skipped—this debate was a pure slog, with DeSantis and Haley barely managing to get through a few sentences without criticizing one another.One sign that the debate wouldn’t be very productive came in its first moments. Haley declared that…
Michael Strahan, center, and his daughters Sophia Strahan, left, and Isabella Strahan arrive at the Kids’ Choice Sports Awards on Thursday, July 11, 2019, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Michael Strahan, center, and his daughters Sophia Strahan, left, and Isabella Strahan arrive at the Kids’ Choice Sports Awards on Thursday, July 11, 2019, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Good Morning America anchor and former NFL player Michael Strahan revealed on Thursday’s show that his teenage daughter was recently diagnosed with medulloblastoma,…
A “No Trousers Tube Ride” in London, a high mountain waterfall in Switzerland, the 2024 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, wearable tech displays in Las Vegas, several fires in Bangladesh, snowfall in Massachusetts, an ice sculpture in northern China, and much more.
The 2024 culture wars have begun in earnest, coalescing around the unexpected and extraordinarily messy topic of academic integrity.Last week, Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, resigned following accusations that she had plagiarized parts of her dissertation. Though Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, admitted to copying text without attribution, she identified the accusations as part of an ideological campaign by right-wing political activists to “unravel public faith in pillars of American society.”The allegations against Gay wouldn’t be the last. The same week, Business Insider published a pair of articles reporting that Neri Oxman, a former professor at MIT, plagiarized some of her…
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.After the October 7 pogroms, a small group of Jewish settlers seized the moment to unleash hell in the West Bank. In certain areas, they completed a process of land appropriation that had already accelerated since the rise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government last December. Palestinians who had endured harassment for months were now expelled completely. (I wrote about one such village, Wadi al-Siq, in November.) Other Palestinians, such as the victims of an October 9 incident analyzed this week in The Washington Post, were shot…
Donald Trump’s disrespect for the law was on prominent display in a Manhattan courtroom earlier today.Michael M. Santiago / GettyJanuary 11, 2024, 3:30 PM ETDonald Trump was determined to make one more scene in his fraud trial in New York today, and he succeeded.After a Fox News town hall last night in Iowa, Trump flew to Manhattan, where he rose to speak during closing arguments in the trial—or perhaps more accurately, to rant.“There wasn’t one witness against us,” Trump said, as The New York Times reported. He called the case a “political witch hunt” and said he was “an innocent…
For years now, health experts have been warning that COVID-era politics and the spread of anti-vaxxer lies have brought us to the brink of public-health catastrophe—that a Great Collapse of Vaccination Rates is nigh. This hasn’t come to pass. In spite of deep concerns about a generation of young parents who might soon give up on immunizations altogether—not simply for COVID, but perhaps for all disease—many of the stats we have are looking good. Standard vaccination coverage among babies and toddlers, including the pandemic babies born in 2020, is “high and stable,” the CDC reports. And kindergarteners’ immunization rates, which…
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Snow is an essential part of how people in cold climates experience the winter, and a key source of water in many parts of the world. But new research shows that the snowpack—snow that stays on the ground in cold weather—is disappearing at an alarming rate as temperatures rise. I chatted with my colleague Zoë Schlanger, who wrote about the new paper in The Atlantic…