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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3m
Chatbots using expressions such as “OH MY GOD!” may simply be mimicking human language—but these exclamations may also be helpful for their own processes, Daniel Drucker and Kyle Mahowald write.
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Why Do AI Agents Sound So Frustrated?
"ARGH... WHY IS THIS SO HARD."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 33m
Start today’s Rabbithole game with a tidbit from Spencer Kornhaber’s review of Taylor Swift’s new songs. theatln.tc/7zU85lEg
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1h
A yearlong investigation of Greek houses revealed their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame, Caitlin Flanagan reported in 2014. theatln.tc/99MBBCzA 📸: Phil Toledano
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1h
Donald Trump thinks it should be illegal for Americans to criticize the Supreme Court—except for him, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
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Only Trump Gets to Criticize the Supreme Court
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1h
More than 10,000 athletes from 46 countries are gathering in Japan to compete in hundreds of events across 43 different sports, during the 20th edition of the Asian Games. See photos:
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Scenes from the 2026 Asian Games
More than 10,000 athletes from 46 countries are now gathered in Japan, competing in 469 events across 43 different sports, during the 20th edition of the Asian Games.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1h
Russell Shaw, @olgakhazan.bsky.social, and @stephhmurray.bsky.social are answering questions on Reddit about raising kids and the shifting challenges many parents are facing. Ask them anything tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/raisingkid...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h
The “Dungeon Crawler Carl” book series is leading fiction’s latest innovation—and transforming how a new audience engages with reading, Sophia Nguyen writes.
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The Next Generation of Choose Your Own Adventure
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series is leading fiction’s new innovation: novels that feel like video games.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h
School voucher advocates are exploiting the culture wars to promote the policy—and public schools can thwart that effort only if they resume their role in uniting students with a shared vision of America, Richard D. Kahlenberg writes.
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How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3h
Residents of a small town in Iowa are setting aside their political differences and banding together against a new data center, George Packer reports. He traveled to Clinton to explore whether the data-center rebellion could help save democracy.
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The Great Data-Center Rebellion
Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3h
Exclusive: Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress, @shustry.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/pV4oxIGu
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4h
A yearlong investigation of Greek houses revealed their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame, Caitlin Flanagan reported in 2014.
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The Dark Power of Fraternities
A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4h
NAZA, a provocative Israeli documentary, should make viewers think about their own moral parameters—instead, it distances them from the war in Gaza, @galbeckerman.bsky.social writes.
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Nazi Analogies Rarely Help
NAZA, a provocative Israeli documentary, should make viewers think about their own moral parameters. Instead, it distances them from the war.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4h
To be successful, a weight-loss company must now profess care for more than its customers’ waistline, Mikala Jamison writes:
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Mental Health Is Now a Marketing Tool for Weight Loss
To be successful, a weight-loss company must profess care for more than its customers’ waistline.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5h
Exclusive: John Fetterman has been working with GOP fundraising consultants—and paying a hefty commission, @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @mviser.bsky.social report. 📸: Andrew Harnik / Getty
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5h
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children: theatln.tc/j6Df5aTI
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 5h
New: John Fetterman has been working with GOP fundraising consultants—and paying a hefty commission, @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @mviser.bsky.social report.
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Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John Fetterman
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 6h
Quite a story from @mviser.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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John Fetterman’s Right-Wing Fundraising Deals
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6h
Exclusive: John Fetterman has been working with GOP fundraising consultants—and paying a hefty commission, @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @mviser.bsky.social report.
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John Fetterman’s Right-Wing Fundraising Deals
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman didn’t always despise each other. @kevinroose.com goes inside the biggest and most consequential rivalry in Silicon Valley:
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Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence
A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11h
For many in Gaza, “the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has constricted,” the Gaza-based journalist Ghada Abdulfattah writes:
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Gaza’s Open Horizon
For many of us, the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has been constricted.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h
Israel has not worked out the big questions about its identity and destiny—and soon, Israelis will vote “in an election likely to postpone the reckoning further,” @gcaw.bsky.social reports.
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Israel Can’t Postpone Its Reckoning Forever
Intractable divides between the secular and the religious pose a bigger problem for the country than any external threat.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14h
Wallace Shawn’s resurfaced rant about Israel shows just how normalized anti-Semitism has become, James Kirchick argues:
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Why Did Wallace Shawn Liken Israelis to Nazis?
The people casually accusing Israel of genocide
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16h
To be successful, a weight-loss company must now profess care for more than its customers’ waistline, Mikala Jamison writes:
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Mental Health Is Now a Marketing Tool for Weight Loss
To be successful, a weight-loss company must profess care for more than its customers’ waistline.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16h
Sinatra and SZA, Appalachian folk and Detroit funk: Take a journey through the music that showed one critic America’s soul. Read about James Parker’s 50 songs that explain America:
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50 Songs That Explain America
From Sinatra to SZA, Appalachian folk to Detroit funk, a journey through the music that showed one British critic this country’s soul
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h
The author Robert Kolker has always been interested in the slipperiness of personality, and his new book, “The Vanishing Family,” examines the adaptability of kin, Julia M. Klein writes.
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The Family That Refused to Vanish
Robert Kolker’s latest book, The Vanishing Family, tracks the effects of inherited dementia and the many transformations that follow.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18h
A Justice Department probe into a supposed “grand conspiracy” to politically persecute Donald Trump is collapsing, @dgraham.bsky.social writes. He explores the flaws in the DOJ’s plans:
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The DOJ’s Collapsing Probe Into a Supposed Anti-Trump Conspiracy
It’s buckling under the weight of strategic errors, staff turnover, and, most of all, the facts.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19h
Donald Trump’s savings accounts for kids have bipartisan appeal—but there are factors that could inhibit the policy’s success, @willgottsegen.com wrote in May:
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What’s Behind the New Trump Child-Savings Accounts
The policy has bipartisan appeal—but there are factors that could inhibit its success.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20h
How does one live with an everyday awareness of how much healthy time might remain? In 2024, Jennifer Senior spoke with Suleika Jaouad about living with the implicit and explicit threat of cancer, and the idea of survival as a creative act.
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The Art of Survival
In living with cancer, Suleika Jaouad has learned to wrench meaning from our short time on Earth.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h
Exclusive: Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress, @shustry.bsky.social reports.
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A Most Trumpian Plan to Make Nice With Russia
Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h
Chatbots using expressions such as “OH MY GOD!” may simply be mimicking human language—but these exclamations may also be helpful for their own processes, Daniel Drucker and Kyle Mahowald write.
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Why Do AI Agents Sound So Frustrated?
"ARGH... WHY IS THIS SO HARD."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22h
For many in Gaza, “the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has constricted,” the Gaza-based journalist Ghada Abdulfattah writes:
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Gaza’s Open Horizon
For many of us, the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has been constricted.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23h
To be successful, a weight-loss company must now profess care for more than its customers’ waistline, Mikala Jamison writes:
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Mental Health Is Now a Marketing Tool for Weight Loss
To be successful, a weight-loss company must profess care for more than its customers’ waistline.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23h
Wallace Shawn’s resurfaced rant about Israel shows just how normalized anti-Semitism has become, James Kirchick argues:
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Why Did Wallace Shawn Liken Israelis to Nazis?
The people casually accusing Israel of genocide
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23h
The AI industry’s tactic has been “to substitute identifying the problem for actually solving it. But at some point, you cannot blog your way out of the apocalypse,” @matteowong.bsky.social reports about AI models that have gone rogue:
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OpenAI Has Gone Rogue
It’s impossible to know the extent of the AI-hacking crisis.  
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
Get a head start on today’s Rabbithole game with this question inspired by Jacqueline Munis’s article on a mess of a storm season. theatln.tc/lULLk2Jj
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
In a new book, Gillian Anderson wants to show how women can learn from their sexual fantasies, @faith-hill.bsky.social writes:
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The Case for Sexual Fantasies, According to Gillian Anderson
The actor wants to show that women can learn from simply imagining.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
As they age, women experience less public scrutiny—and entertain a wider set of choices about when and how they are seen, Akiko Busch wrote in 2019.
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The Invisibility of Older Women
As they age, women experience less public scrutiny—and entertain a wider set of choices about when and how they are seen.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
Many of America’s allies have capitulated to the Trump administration’s tariffs, Chrystia Freeland writes. But her experience as Canada’s international trade minister and foreign minister during the first Trump administration suggests another strategy:
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The Art of Dealing With Trump
As Canada’s international trade minister and foreign minister, I learned that the only thing that works with this president is strength.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
In April 2024, Joe Biden and the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack, Brett McGurk writes. In an excerpt from his new book, McGurk details the tense scene inside the White House:
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How Biden Averted a War With Iran
In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress, @shustry.bsky.social reports.
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A Most Trumpian Plan to Make Nice With Russia
Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh look, it’s @kevinroose.com in The Atlantic 👀 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence
A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
Smart piece from @skornhaber.bsky.social asking whether Taylor Swift calibrated her music for the kiddult moment that was already flying by.
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Taylor Swift’s Audience Is Growing Up. Her Music Is Devolving.
The singer’s music once put a clever twist on ideas about aging and adulthood. Now she just seems to be going backwards.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
The experience of listening to some of Taylor Swift’s new songs is like getting beaten with a candy cane, writes @skornhaber.bsky.social:
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Taylor Swift’s Audience Is Growing Up. Her Music Is Devolving.
The singer’s music once put a clever twist on ideas about aging and adulthood. Now she just seems to be going backwards.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
With one deft impression, the “Saturday Night Live” season premiere captured the dissonance between how tech CEOs and the public talk about AI, Paula Mejía writes:
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An SNL Exchange That Captures the AI Disconnect
The Season 52 premiere’s standout moment took an Anthropic co-founder to task.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
“I just wanted to do something good, and everyone is making it seem like I’m doing something wrong,” one temporary caregiver told @caitlindickerson.bsky.social, who reports on the babies left behind by Trump’s deportations and the individuals trying to care for them.
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
In April 2024, Joe Biden and the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack, Brett McGurk writes. In an excerpt from his new book, McGurk details the tense scene inside the White House: theatln.tc/B2snuDWn
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
The author Robert Kolker has always been interested in the slipperiness of personality, and his new book, “The Vanishing Family,” examines the adaptability of kin, Julia M. Klein writes.
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The Family That Refused to Vanish
Robert Kolker’s latest book, The Vanishing Family, tracks the effects of inherited dementia and the many transformations that follow.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump’s vision for a monumental arch was always ambitious—even before he decided that it should also be a military complex, @janaykingsberry.bsky.social reports. She examines why the president’s additions to the arch may not work the way he hopes:
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How Militarizing the Triumphal Arch Could Backfire for Trump
Adding drones and snipers to a planned monument may not work the way the president hopes.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports. Watch Salama’s full discussion with host Adam Harris on Radio Atlantic about her reporting: youtu.be/_IYjrwG4r1I?...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
The idea that Democrats could take back the Senate seemed far-fetched a year ago—but new polls suggest that such an outcome is now likelier to happen than not, Marc Novicoff writes.
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Can the Polls Possibly Be Right?
Democrats are now favored to take back the Senate, a prospect that seemed far-fetched a year ago.
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