Politics
George Santos Swore He’d Never Talk to Me. Then the Phone Rang. - The New York Times
Ending months of silence, the politician began an unusual dialogue with a reporter he had long avoided.
Sidney Powell's Guilty Plea Threatens Trump's Inner Circle - The Atlantic
“I think there are a lot of people who are in more trouble than they were before.”
Photography
Photos: A ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Over the Americas - The Atlantic
Images of this weekend’s amazing celestial phenomenon, and some of its many observers
Media
How Martin Scorsese Made 'Killers of the Flower Moon' - WSJ
The Oscar-winning filmmaker scrapped a completed screenplay to turn the plot of his new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” inside out.
Markets & Economy
What’s it like to be an Instacart shopper? - The Washington Post
A look inside the private lives of Instacart shoppers shows the determination, and the precarity, that go into making this job work.
Climate Change
How Climate Change Affects Water Markets Globally
More extreme weather is reshaping the availability of water, a commodity embedded in almost every product bought and sold in international markets
Rising temperatures, extreme weather threaten to propel malaria spread - Washington Post
Cases of malaria threaten to increase dramatically from climate change as rising temperatures push mosquitoes to new areas and lengthen transmission seasons.
How Climate Change Is Changing Therapy - The New York Times
How anxiety about the planet’s future is transforming the practice of psychotherapy.
The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle | The New Yorker
Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.
Health/Biotech
Prozac Has Potential to Treat Long Covid’s Body-Wide Symptoms, Study Finds - Bloomberg
Covid may trigger complex biological reactions from the bowel to the brain, leading to persistent neurological symptoms in some people, according to a study that points the way toward a treatment.
Bedbugs aren’t just in Paris. There’s a global “resurgence.” - Vox
It’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it.
Science
Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.) - The New York Times
Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neuroscientist argues. It might also be liberating.
Culture
Mexican Sinaloa Cartel’s Message to Members: Stop Making Fentanyl or Die - WSJ
The crime group is yielding to intensifying U.S. law-enforcement pressure and is kidnapping or killing producers who defy its ban on trafficking the opioid.
Barnes & Noble Undergoes a Back-to-Basics Redesign - The New York Times
As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency.
Real Estate
US Real Estate Brokers' Commission System Faces DOJ Antitrust Risk - Bloomberg
The lucrative broker commission system at the heart of the US residential housing market is facing unprecedented antitrust scrutiny from the Justice Department and two private class-action lawsuits that risk weakening the National Association of Realtors, the industry’s powerful lobbying group.