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What if Freud Was Right and Pharma Was Wrong?
NEWS | 04 August 2026
But Solms is rarer still, having spent the past 29 years completing a revised translation of the complete works of Freud. But technologies unavailable to Freud have demonstrated that much of what happens in the brain is in fact unconscious. It has become hard to deny that, at least in basic outline, Freud was right about the unconscious. Studying consciousness—and the unconscious brain that lay beneath it—from the inside was how Freud constructed psychoanalytic theory. This article appears in the September 2026 print edition with the headline “What if Freud Was Right?”

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September 2026 Issue
NEWS | 04 August 2026
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World:
A Family Tragedy in the Age of Trump
NEWS | 04 August 2026
Claims of misbehavior and anger issues have dogged Miller since at least high school, and Emily Moreno is not the first woman to accuse him of being violent. At the time, Miller told Politico through a lawyer that he “categorically denies” the event. Two people close to the family told me Moreno’s initial silence was at his daughter’s request: Emily Moreno does not want her own daughter to one day read about her grandfather attacking her dad. A second person close to Emily Moreno offered a similar assessment. And then there was this: Emily Moreno told Miller in February that their daughter was having another anxiety attack, similar to one she’d had previously.

Current Events:
Trump Blames America First
NEWS | 04 August 2026
“They blame it on Iran,” Trump said, apparently referring to the FBI’s assessment. In keeping with his “America First” doctrine, Trump promised his supporters that the United States would get out of unnecessary wars and not start new ones. Instead, Trump has reportedly launched 20 military operations in his second term, including targeted attacks, covert operations, and an all-out war with Iran. “America First” has become “Blame America First.” Iranian strategists may have intended to needle and mock the Trump administration. But perhaps even they were surprised that Trump would respond to an attack on American infrastructure by blaming his fellow Americans.

News Flash:
Americans Are Turning on Trump
NEWS | 04 August 2026
Trump won slightly more electoral votes than Joe Biden had in 2020 (312 to 306), but he also won fewer total popular votes and a smaller percentage of the vote. “The realignment of the working class, which helped Trump win in 2016, would not stop with white voters. These broad strokes are ugly enough, but digging into polling results shows particular deterioration with the particular groups that were supposed to be at the center of the Trump 2024 realignment. Consider young voters. A May poll found that a quarter of Hispanics who voted for Trump in 2024 wouldn’t do so again.

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SPONSORED | 04 August 2026
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Latest:
Kill the Ticks
NEWS | 04 August 2026
A single deer, Telford told me, can feed 1,500 female deer ticks, each of which can lay 2,000 eggs. That’s 3 million deer ticks per deer, over one breeding season—even higher for the more fecund lone star tick. We know very well how to kill deer (“Rifle,” Rochlin deadpanned), but doing so is unpopular. On Martha’s Vineyard, which has come under recent siege by lone star ticks, hunting is having a resurgence. And they are searching for more specific alternatives, such as fungi that kill only ticks.

Breaking:
What ‘America First’ Means for Global Health
NEWS | 04 August 2026
With me to discuss is my colleague Hana Kiros, who has been covering the decimation of the U.S.’s global-health aid and the current Ebola outbreak. And the big difference is that this is the fastest-moving Ebola outbreak that we’ve seen. The Trump admin published its America First Global Health Strategy and it promotes this à la carte model of funding global-health responses. Kiros: Yeah, I think there’s always been this dual justification for providing foreign aid and health aid specifically. As you mentioned that human element—global health is really, at the end of the day, really a human endeavor, right?

Trending:
The One Town That Wants a Data Center
NEWS | 04 August 2026
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have spoken out against data centers; so have Steve Bannon and the right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh. McDonald expects the data center to use 1 percent of that, or about 300,000 gallons a day. On every point, this is how the argument goes: Would a data center be loud? “Then Meta came to town and opened a data center, bringing new jobs to Los Lunas. You could think that Jay was naive, and yet another data center won’t make anyone better off.

This Just In:
Atlantic Trivia: Surprise Inside
NEWS | 04 August 2026
An announcement: This iteration of Atlantic Trivia will soon be ending, and a new, souped-up quiz game will assume its place. But for now, get this trivia while the getting’s good! Atlantic Trivia Landmarks Video Games Geography From a story (opens in new tab) by Janay Kingsberry The Millennium Stage, Hall of States, and Eisenhower Theater are all spaces within what U.S. landmark? Show Hint It also contains Studios J, F, and K.And by the way, did you know that the Caesar salad originated in Tijuana? In 1924, lacking the ingredients for his usual salad, he improvised a pared-down take with romaine, Parmesan, and all the fixings we know today—except anchovies.

Today:
The Best Parenting Hack Is Being Rich
NEWS | 04 August 2026
High-earning and highly educated parents are likelier to follow all sorts of parenting advice on things such as breastfeeding and baby-led weaning. The unspoken secret of the parenting-strategies world is that, much of the time, the best parenting hack is just being rich. But the high scores could be the result of some other parenting strategy that the no-screen-time parents used. Read: American kids used to eat everythingTogether, the issues of confounding variables and residual confounding plague much of parenting research. Across the board, wealthier, more educated parents have all sorts of advantages that less-privileged parents can’t easily replicate, no matter how forcefully they’re urged to do so.

Top Stories:
Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons?
NEWS | 04 August 2026
Phillips Payson O’Brien: Fighter jets are passéThe munitions shortfall doesn’t just affect the current war. It also sends a worrisome message to allies around the world: The United States has been caught off guard by the latest evolution of warfare and lacks the armaments-production capacity to adapt quickly. And in the long run, governments that counted on the United States to equip their military are going to need a Plan B. The United States allowed many of its strategic industries, such as shipbuilding, to wither. If the United States appears less powerful and less reliable than it once was and is running through munitions faster than it can produce them, many more countries will follow Ukraine’s example.

World:
How AI Could Make People More Anxious
NEWS | 04 August 2026
Beck: The thing that’s changing lately, though, is for a lot of people—that instinct to pick up your phone and Google when you’re anxious is morphing into an instinct to ask AI. Next time you’re gonna be feeling anxious about your health or maybe some other trigger, you’re gonna want this kind of reassurance, and the only place you’re gonna find it is the chatbot. Beck: Although in some ways, you know, calming yourself when you’re anxious seems like a good thing to try to do. Beck: If you’re anxious, it’s late at night, maybe; you can’t call your therapist, you can’t call a friend. Beck: So in your opinion, would it be best for people to just not use AI for reassurance when they’re feeling anxious?

Current Events:
The Great Romance Slump
NEWS | 04 August 2026
And yet, despite the bounty of possibility, we are living through a great romance slump. The romance slump, I found, is a product of broader trends: souring gender relations, a transformed economy, the unevenness of social progress, and technology that both connects and isolates us. In Botswana, they heard, many children are raised within networks of single women and their kin. Some researchers think that the great romance slump has been caused largely by a shortage of “marriageable men.” But, to be fair to men, the old standards of success have become harder to achieve. After searching for nearly a decade, I met someone at a wedding almost two years ago who made romance feel unexpectedly easy.

News Flash:
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
NEWS | 04 August 2026
Ceuta has been a Spanish city since the 16th century, but it is not part of mainland Spain. Among those promoting them were senior members of the Trump administration, and senior leaders of the European far right. The Moroccans who swam to Ceuta were never going to make it to Britain, Germany, or anywhere else in Europe. Spanish police, according to El Pais and the Financial Times, were checking documents in Ceuta to find any Moroccans who illegally remained. It remains unclear who created the viral posts that encouraged the would-be migrants to believe that they could get to Europe from Ceuta.