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Heat Domes: Why the Air Stops Moving

June 23, 2026 at 10:22 AM UTC

A reader's path through the blocking high-pressure systems that trap heat for days, why a warming climate makes them more punishing, and what prolonged...

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Lungs, Aging, and the Touring Body

June 22, 2026 at 3:42 PM UTC

How lungs work, why they falter with age, and the touring-industry pressures that keep performers onstage when their bodies signal stop.

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Super Pacs and the Fight Over Ai

June 22, 2026 at 10:21 AM UTC

How tech fortunes, super PACs, and newly organized tech workers are turning AI regulation into an electoral battleground.

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What Ksa Means: Inside the Kingdom

June 22, 2026 at 10:57 AM UTC

Six books that move past the three-letter scoreboard label into the founding, ruling family, recent upheavals, and daily life of Saudi Arabia.

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Who Runs Sdny: Independence and Appointments

June 21, 2026 at 10:10 AM UTC

How leadership choices at the Southern District of New York shape prosecutorial independence, Wall Street enforcement, and the politicization of the Justice Department.

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When Approval Sinks: Power, War, Economy

June 20, 2026 at 9:37 PM UTC

How a sagging approval rating, fed by an unpopular war and economic strain, reshapes a president's authority, his party's odds, and the institutions caught...

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How Supreme Court Doctrine Gets Made

June 20, 2026 at 9:11 AM UTC

Books on how individual justices shape precedent, when they recuse, and why interpretive methods like the historical-tradition test have become flashpoints over the Court's...

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Reading Iran Under A New Supreme Leader

June 20, 2026 at 10:35 AM UTC

Histories of clerical authority, US rivalry, and recent protest movements that explain the forces hemming in Iran's newly prominent supreme leader.

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When Plate Readers Track Devices

June 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC

How license-plate cameras are merging with wireless sensors to tie vehicles to the people and phones inside them, and what that does to privacy...

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Rethinking the Presidential Library

June 17, 2026 at 10:39 PM UTC

How the Obama Presidential Center reimagines the presidential library as public art, community infrastructure, and Chicago politics, read through memoir, museum history, and local...

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Habeas Corpus and the Detained

June 16, 2026 at 11:11 AM UTC

How the right to challenge unlawful detention works, where the Constitution limits it, and why surging immigrant petitions and suspension threats are testing federal...

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Anduril and the New Defense Industry

June 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM UTC

A reading path on how Anduril's border surveillance contracts and overseas manufacturing plans reflect a wider move toward commercialized, globalized, and privately built defense...

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Aging Presidents and the Safeguards

June 14, 2026 at 9:36 PM UTC

Reporting, history, and medicine on how a president's age and cognition collide with the institutions meant to constrain the office.

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Antarctica'S Hidden Basins: Ice, Tectonics, Risk

June 14, 2026 at 10:26 AM UTC

A newly mapped continent-scale basin network beneath East Antarctica, read alongside the polar science, exploration history, and climate stakes that explain why buried geology...

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Who Controls the Park Narrative

June 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM UTC

Histories of monuments, museums, and national parks that show how public memory gets curated, contested, and fought over in court.

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Export Controls Reach the Models

June 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM UTC

How export controls, alignment failures, and great-power rivalry collide when governments restrict access to frontier AI systems.

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Detention'S Collateral: Families After Ice

June 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM UTC

Memoirs, reportage, and policy accounts that trace how immigration detention separates families and produces lasting legal, financial, and emotional harm.

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Who Pays for the Parks

June 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM UTC

How national parks are governed, funded, and fought over, from billion-dollar maintenance backlogs to border-wall waivers and the visitors caught in between.

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Dunk and Egg: the Source and the Saga

June 12, 2026 at 11:06 AM UTC

The novellas behind HBO's adaptation, plus the wider Song of Ice and Fire volumes that situate Ser Duncan and young Aegon in Westeros history.

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Section 702: Surveillance, Oversight, Reform

June 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM UTC

A reading path through how Section 702 foreign-intelligence collection works, the privacy tradeoffs and oversight failures it raises, and the politics that stall its...

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Precedent, Ethics, and the Roberts Court

June 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM UTC

Histories, investigations, and a justice's own memoir for readers tracking how precedent, ethics, and individual choices reshape the Supreme Court.

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Why the Courts Keep Saying No

June 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM UTC

How federal judges, administrative law, and the Supreme Court's procedures combine to constrain executive action across immigration, benefits, and labor policy.

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Inside the Platform Machine

June 10, 2026 at 9:28 PM UTC

Investigative and theoretical accounts of how social platforms monetize attention, suppress what they know, and reshape politics and public life.

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Race, Charges, and A 35 Year Sentence

June 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM UTC

How prosecutorial discretion, race, jury composition, and decades-long sentences shape the outcome when a teen killing becomes a national flashpoint.

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