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For decades, scientists have debated the possibility that a vital ocean-current system could plunge Europe into an abrupt cooldown.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/a-counterintuitive-effect-of-global-warming/677245/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Gender, rather than race or age or immigration status, has become the country’s sharpest social fault line.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/south-korea-fertility-rate-misogyny-feminism/673435/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Alex Kotlowitz recommends books that manage to operate at a human scale while arriving at bigger truths.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/books-briefing-american-decline-alex-kotlowitz/677258/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

A Titanic Geopolitical Struggle Is Underway

This is no ordinary moment in world affairs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/opinion/israel-gaza-war-ukraine.html?smid=em-share

The Meaning of Gaza’s Tunnels

Hamas could have devoted its money and time to building a future for its people, not a fortress for itself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/opinion/tunnels-gaza-hamas.html?smid=em-share

*******  Visiting the Most Important Company in the World

Replicating the chipmaking power of T.S.M.C. in the United States will be much harder than Americans realize.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/opinion/tsmc-taiwan-china.html?smid=em-share