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For millennia, mosquitoes have been a problem to be suffered, not one that could be solved—but that’s about to change, Ross Andersen reports. https://lnkd.in/ez7jVTas 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

Ideas such as AI data centers connecting to the power grid to generate electricity could provide a “win-win situation” for the communities that host them, the reporter Jael Holzman tells Charlie Warzel. Watch Galaxy Brain: https://lnkd.in/eG-gPphR

The Atlantic’s editors and writers have selected 25 books to suit every mood this summer. If you’re searching for a cult classic to obsess over this season, Jeremy Gordon recommends “The Suicides.” See more selections: https://lnkd.in/en7ergzB

With the midterms approaching, the divergence between what Trump thinks is good for Trump and what is good for the Republican Party has never been wider—and few seem willing to confront him, Jonathan Lemire and Michael Scherer report: https://lnkd.in/enyW5h-b 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Samuel Corum / Sipa / Bloomberg / Getty.

If using AI for writing means you never have to stop, backtrack, or start over, you’re missing the most important part of the process, writes Eve Fairbanks:

Chris Jones came home from a reporting assignment to find another man texting his wife a string of heart emoji. In about 20 minutes, he lost his marriage and his best friend. Nearly a decade later, he looks back on the longest night of his life: https://lnkd.in/eNnimDtB 🎨: James Lee Chiahan

Texas is a state “we must win if Democrats are going to be a national party in the 2032 presidential contest,” Beto O’Rourke told David Frum in March. “If we’re in the wilderness, it’s not just to the detriment of the Democratic Party; it means that we may not have democracy in America.” Listen to the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/eUScU5ti

The birth rate is dropping in every country on Earth, Derek Thompson writes: “Is this about phones and technology, or is it a reflection of modern anxiety about the world? Or, perhaps, both?” https://lnkd.in/er3-3yWb Thompson spoke with the economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde about why the birth rate is dropping, why it matters, and just how steep the decline is likely to get. Read more from their conversation at the link. 📸: Rolf Zöllner / Bridgeman Images

College students have been trained to look toward “the next step in their lives, the next aspiration, the next accomplishment, and they don’t even know how to stop doing that,” Ian Bogost tells Adam Harris of the professionalization of U.S. higher education: https://lnkd.in/e8wWVepV

Even the most close-knit families can leave important subjects unspoken, Isabel Fattal writes. In The Wonder Reader, she explores what we share with our families, and what we find the hardest to say: