This year’s Turning Point women’s summit was different than in years past, @elainejgodfrey reports: more Christian women’s empowerment, less electoral politics.
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- The screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that poses a serious risk to cattle, has hit the southern U.S.—and for ranchers, it couldn’t have come at a worse moment, @will_gottsegen writes:
- The entire University of California system abandoned the use of standardized tests in admissions during the pandemic. Now a huge share of STEM and economics faculty is demanding the tests are considered again, @imkahloon reports:
- See a collection of images of the varied shorelines, communities, and wildlife found along the Temperate Northern Pacific region, which stretches from North America to Japan, via @TheAtlPhoto: theatln.tc/xJyMLFfT
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Even as they dismiss Trump's baseless fraud claims, some Democrats have become fed up with California's vote counting. “It should be embarrassing that Democrats... have just sort of gotten used to this kind of thing. It’s absurd," @treeaston told us. - For years, California Democrats saw little urgency in speeding up the state’s vote-counting—but in this conspiracy-theory-laden political era, that mindset is changing, @russellberman and @yvonnewingett report.
- This year’s World Cup was framed as a festival of North American unity. Instead, the tournament is testing how much of that unity remains, @RafaelaJinich argues in The Atlantic Daily:
- David Frum is joined by Professor David W. Blight to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to undermine the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Public pools could be a simple solution to ever-warming temperatures, Eve Andrews reported in 2024. Why are they so neglected? theatln.tc/SNWE5qU2 📸: H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty
- Answer today’s trivia from Will Gottsegen’s article about the parasite messing with America’s beef supply. Check your response and tackle two other questions: theatln.tc/kZ6YDjoi
- “If anybody didn’t believe in revolutions and counterrevolutions and cycles of history, they’re certainly getting a lesson in it now,” Professor David W. Blight tells @davidfrum about the Supreme Court’s decisions to weaken the Voting Rights Act. Watch The David Frum Show:
00:00 - Lawmakers are working to make juvenile sentencing stricter—despite decades of studies that show that incarcerating minors is counterproductive, @ebruenig writes. She reports on efforts across the country to prosecute children like they are adults:
- Democrats oppose Donald Trump’s foreign policy and don’t want a retread of Biden’s—but that’s where any agreement within the party ends, @missy_ryan reports.
