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Andrew Harnik / AP Facebook Wants a Do-Over on News
This time around, the company would rather you focus on the humans.
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OWN A Rare Show That Explores the Nuances of Black Boyhood
David Makes Man depicts the struggles of its young South Florida–raised protagonist without pathologizing the characters who surround him.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Abolishing the Filibuster Is Unavoidable for Democrats
Even if the party sweeps Congress and the White House in 2020, the Senate rule would let a faction of the reddest, whitest states stymie its agenda.
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Cliff Owen / AP North Carolina Sheriffs Win a Round Against ICE
Republican lawmakers had sought to make counties help enforce immigration law.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Denmark Learns What It’s Like to Be at the Center of Trump’s Attention
The U.S. president canceled his visit to the kingdom over his failed attempt to buy Greenland. Danes are reacting with bewilderment, anger, and humor.
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Pool / Reuters Emmanuel Macron Expounds as the World Burns
The French president has an answer for every problem, but is anyone listening?
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Hulu This Way Up Is a Bountiful Binge Watch
Hulu’s latest British import is a delightful, openhearted comedy about a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters An Ingenious Microscope Could Change How Quickly Disease Is Detected
By analyzing blood samples 120 times faster than a traditional microscope, Octopi can lighten the load of overworked lab technicians.
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Fox Searchlight Ready or Not Is a Clever Horror Comedy About Entitled Rich People
The new film retells a classic story of bored aristocrats hunting humans—with a subversive twist.
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Alex Wong / Getty Images Milton Friedman Was Wrong
The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again
Most speech, hateful or not, is protected by the Constitution. To pretend otherwise is foolhardy.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Would You Rather a Recession, or Trump?
A downturn would crater Trump’s odds at reelection. It would also create much of the inequity, misery, and chaos that Democrats seek to avoid by winning in 2020.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Riskiest Bet
That old truism of American politics—“It’s the economy, stupid”—could come back to haunt the money-minded president in 2020.
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Toby Melville / Reuters How Britain Came to Accept a ‘No-Deal Brexit’
The debate over Britain leaving the European Union has polarized the country and normalized what was previously unthinkable.
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Reuters Staff The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Much Ado About Nuuk Things
President Trump canceled a meeting with the prime minister of Denmark after she rejected his interest in purchasing Greenland. Plus: Which candidates made the cut for the next Democratic debate?
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Last Days of the Other 1 Percent
Next week’s deadline to qualify for the third Democratic debate could leave half of the large field of candidates on the sidelines.
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Tasos Katopodis / Reuters Disloyal to What?
The president often implies that what determines national loyalty is not citizenship but ethnicity, religion, and race.
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Warner Bros. The Matrix 4 Could Be Just What Hollywood Needs
After years of rumored remakes and reboots, the cult sci-fi series will return with a fourth installment to be directed by Lana Wachowski.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Trump Has Defected
The president crossed an important line when he canceled a meeting with the Danish prime minister.
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Kevork Djansezian / Getty Republicans Changed Their Mind About Higher Education Really Quickly
A majority of them no longer think campuses are setting the country on the right course. What happened?
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Bob Wands / AP The Quick Therapy That Actually Works
Just a few hours of therapy-like interventions can reduce some people’s anxiety.
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Paul Bradbury / Getty The Widespread Suspicion of Opposite-Sex Friendships
Can straight men and women really be best friends? Their partners are wondering, too.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters A Joy of Summer Is Vanishing Fast
As the climate warms up, cool summer evenings are becoming a distant memory.
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Jose Luis Gonzales / Reuters Only the Right Can Defeat White Nationalism
Law-enforcement agencies can arrest terrorists, but they cannot settle existential arguments about the nature of American democracy.
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Doug Mills / AP They Just Wanted to Entertain
AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.
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David Moir / Reuters The Most Powerful Member of the Ruling Class
Using “the ruling class” and “overlords” as shorthand for Trump’s critics is Orwellian nonsense.
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Travis Shinn / RCA Records Why Tool Could Be More Relevant Today Than Ever Before
The legendary metal band is returning after a 13-year absence, and while its sound isn’t in, its disaffected embrace of spirituality is.
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Adriano Machado / Reuters The Dirty Problems With Operation Car Wash
News reports have pointed to serious wrongdoing at the heart of the anti-corruption inquiry that has shaken many Latin American countries.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters No More Corporate Lawyers on the Federal Bench
The next Democratic president should try nominating judges who haven’t been partners at big law firms.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Taxing Times
Universal background checks are off the table, Trump reportedly said in a call with the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre. Plus: The president confirms he’s “been thinking about” implementing a payroll-tax cut.
