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Would Claude Refuse an Illegal Military Order?
The AI chatbot told me that it has misgivings about its role in modern warfare.
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The Whiplash of Trump’s Iran Capitulation
America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else.
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Trump Is Making the 250th Small
The State Fair rally was an empty celebration of a man instead of a country.
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Photos: Building the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is one of the largest and most expensive science projects in history. Thirty-five nations are working together to build a massive magnetic fusion device in France to prove the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy.
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Trump's Other Paint Job
Before he botched the Reflecting Pool, the president wanted the border wall black.
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Trump Has a Bill Pulte Problem
The acting director of national intelligence appears to be legally ineligible for the job.
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War and Consequences
The damage will not be undone when the Trump administration is gone.
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2026-06-24 04:49:05 UTC

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America’s Greatest Food Export
Ranch dressing has become, deservedly or not, a face of the nation during the World Cup.
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2026-06-24 04:49:05 UTC

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The AI Super PACs Trying to Influence the Midterms
The elections will be a test for the industry’s ability to translate money into political power.
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2026-06-24 04:49:05 UTC

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Another Top General Is Out at the Pentagon
C. D. Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, is the latest in a long line of military departures.
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The Hot New Place for Singles
Newsletter writers are playing cupid with their like-minded readers.
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Trump Can’t Spin His Way Out of His Two Latest Crises
He’s trying to defy the reality of a green Reflecting Pool and a lost war.
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The Election System Wasn’t Built for This
The fight playing out in Maricopa County could be a harbinger of things to come.
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The Man Who Couldn’t Do It
Keir Starmer joins the growing list of prime ministers who failed to address the country’s troubles.
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California, Seen Through the Lens of George Rose
George Rose, an editorial contributing photographer with Getty, has been making remarkable images of California’s people and landscapes for decades. Collected here is some of Rose’s recent photography, featuring his home state’s diverse forests, cities, mountains, and coastlines.
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J. D. Vance's AI Doctrine
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA.
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I’d Rather Risk Cancer Than See AI Move This Fast
I’d benefit if AI cured cancer. And I still want AI progress to slow down.
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Imperfect Ghazal on Weightless Living
A poem
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A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida
The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem.
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2026-06-21 04:47:40 UTC

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The Myth of SpaceX
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
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2026-06-21 04:47:40 UTC

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Trump's Second Gamble on Iran
If the regime can’t be dislodged by force, maybe it can be bribed.
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Before Juneteenth
A firsthand account of freedom’s earliest celebrations
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The Thinkers Who Explain This Baffling Era
These philosophers are less arcane—and more relevant—than some readers might think.
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What a Juneteenth Boxing Match Revealed About America
The 1936 fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling was a showdown over global fascism.
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The Massive Implications of the Brendan Sorsby Ordeal
The NCAA needs to figure out how to enforce its rules before something goes wrong.
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Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It
The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.
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Mark Rutte Needs to Stop Talking
Can Mark Rutte please just stop talking? The NATO secretary general, who infantilized an entire continent last year by referring to Donald Trump as “Daddy,” continued his campaign of flattery at the most recent meeting of the G7: “The U.S. action to prevent the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and degrade its ballistic missile capability improves security for us all,” he told reporters.
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How to Think About AI Before It's Too Late
Cory Doctorow: Bosses are infinitely horny for firing workers and replacing them with machines. And they have been since forever, right? That’s the story of the Industrial Revolution. They just—there’s something about this, and it’s not just cutting costs. I think that if you’re the boss, you are haunted by the knowledge that if you don’t show up for work, the business just ticks over as per normal. But if all the workers don’t show up, that’s “You’re out of business.” And so maybe you tell yourself you’re driving the car, but secretly you worry that you’re in the back seat with a Fisher Price steering wheel. And one of the things about AI is: It dangles the possibility of wiring the toy steering wheel into the car’s drivetrain.
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America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek
The future of AI and jobs will be so much weirder than you think.
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The Black Soldiers Who Changed the Meaning of the Civil War
These troops helped transform a conflict fought initially to preserve the Union into one that destroyed slavery as well.
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The Job Market Is Thawing
The pace of hiring is slowly emerging from stasis—emphasis on slowly.
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The Father-Daughter Routine That Transformed Our Family Life
In the early years, weekend adventures with my daughter followed a script: a park, a pet store, a local bakery or maybe somewhere for lunch. We’d do it every Saturday, on and on. Now my daughter is nearly 9, and the tone and tenor of our routine have changed. The music we listen to matters more—she’s gone from wanting “Baby Shark” to having strong opinions about how Kurt Cobain kind of sounds like a loud, angry version of the Beatles. We still go to bakeries (this is a topic on which we fundamentally agree as father and child), but now we can also talk about what we enjoy at them (both the pastries and the fact that we’re supporting small businesses in the city we love).
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The Religion That’s Very Ready for Aliens
Disclosure Day treats extraterrestrial life as a challenge to faith. It’s not.
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If Only Trump Knew What Vance Is Doing
If the president is infallible, there must be some other explanation for his Iran defeat.
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‘You Slap Me in the Face, I’ll Slap You Right Back’
Nancy Pelosi on gerrymandering, the midterms, and her 39 years in Congress
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The Left-Wing Case Against Anti-Zionism
Discrimination against Israelis qua Israelis—and the “Zionists” who appear as their proxies—is a moral wrong.
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Atlantic Trivia: RIP 747
Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
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Cuba Is Collapsing. Will Trump Invade?
The CNN international correspondent Patrick Oppmann on Trump’s fixation on Cuba, the current state of the Cuban government, and what happens next. Plus: J. D. Vance’s presidential aspirations, and Othello.
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The Pentagon Might Win the Lottery
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An Ascendant Constitutional Theory Is a Threat to American Science
The idea of a “unitary executive” is now being extended to America’s scientific establishment, with potentially devastating effects.
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How Do I Love Thee?
A growing number of internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment:
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AI Is Taking Over Hospitals
Every knowledge-based profession may one day reach the point when AI outperforms the human experts. In medicine, that day appeared to come in April. A group of primarily Harvard and Stanford researchers announced the results of a study that pitted ChatGPT against hundreds of physicians in a diagnostic obstacle course involving written medical mysteries and information from real-world patients. The bot had won, and the humans weren’t entirely happy about it.
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Dynamite
The tragedy of our exploding ghettos has historical roots in the false expectations of the Reconstruction era, and in the refusal of American citizens to sense the frustration and violence gathering in the slums.
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2026-06-15 04:47:11 UTC

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So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States
Louisiana’s case against the FDA is not just about one drug.
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Six Books That Take You to Space
When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of planets that revolve around them, the idea that humans are alone in the universe strikes me as unlikely. So, instead, I wonder: What is that life like, and will we ever encounter it?
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Photos of the Week: Basilica Blessing, Tree Tunnel, Parrot Prediction
Scenes from the French Open in Paris; a pro-wrestling match at a public library in California; celebrations in Brazil for the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup; a congressional baseball game in Washington, D.C.; and much more
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The U.S. and Iran Might Actually Have a Deal
The two sides say they are close to an agreement to end a war that has left everyone badly bruised.
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The Kennedy Center, Minus Trump
After a judge said the president's name had to go, crowds braced for a cathartic moment.
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The Women Who Don’t Own Clothes
The rental service Nuuly is taking over America’s closets.
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Atlantic Trivia: Presidential Birthdays
Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
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The Kennedy Center Is a Metaphor for De-Trumpification
You can remove Trump’s name but not the damage he’s done.
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The Work That Goes Into ‘Effortless’ Style
Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel is deeper than it looks.
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Fruit Is Too Sweet
If it is possible, in this fascinating age, to be a celebrity fruit, the Sumo Citrus is definitely a celebrity fruit. The mandarin-satsuma-orange hybrid, originally developed in Japan and brought to American grocery stores in 2011, is by far the most popular new member of the citrus family, accounting for almost a third of the entire sector’s recent growth. This winter, like the winter before, my local Trader Joe’s displayed piles of them in prime position, and many times the store would be half sold-out before sunset. Sumos are discovered anew every season on social media, where people talk about their adorable bumpy heads, their generous size, and—oh!—their sweetness.
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When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other
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The ‘Presumption of Regularity’ Is Evaporating
Judges have long defaulted to a posture of trust toward the federal government, but under Trump that is changing, and a new set of legal possibilities is emerging.
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Why the Media Keep Quoting the Same Climate Scientist
Daniel Swain has a knack for breaking down the complexities of climate and weather into precise but accessible ideas.
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Pete Hegseth, Cornball in Chief
The secretary of defense is a fountain of corny performances and rhetoric.
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Atlantic Trivia: The Worms Are Turning
Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
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The President’s Arsenal of Insults Has a Telling New Entry
Trump’s already notorious interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker was a rare up-close portrait of a presidential meltdown.
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How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
Who broke Britain? Someone—or something—must have. The past 18 years, enough time for a whole lost generation to be born and brought up, have yielded nothing but stagnation and mass disillusionment. In 2007, before the global financial crisis, Britain was at its postimperial zenith. Median household income had just surpassed that of Germany. A pound was worth more than $2, and London was arguably displacing New York as the center of international banking.
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The Crisis Iran’s Leaders Can’t Ignore
Two months into the cease-fire, the Iranian economy lies in tatters.
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Photos From Around the North Pacific
A collection of images of the varied shorelines, communities, and wildlife found along the Temperate Northern Pacific region stretching from North America to Japan
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What Is the Democrats’ Answer to ‘America First’?
The party wants to do things differently than Trump and better than Biden.
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The Divided World Cup
This year’s tournament was framed as a festival of North American unity. Instead, it is testing how much of that unity remains.
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'Off Campus' Is Driving Women Wild. Why?
The Amazon show dares to dream that romantic love need not be a clash of wills.
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What Dogs See That We Can't
Consciousness separates us from machines. Need convincing? Just take a good look at a faithful canine.
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Elon Musk Is Dropping a Boulder in a Kiddie Pool
He is about to take SpaceX public—pushing other AI companies to do the same.
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Atlantic Trivia: The Weekend
Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
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The Republicans Who Impugn Talarico’s Manhood
Attacks on the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas show the GOP’s narrow, anxious definition of masculinity.
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The J6 Rioter Now Working at the Pentagon
His hiring is part of a dangerous trend in the Trump administration.
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‘Obsession’ Takes Gen Z’s Social Anxiety to the Extreme
Avoiding vulnerability comes with ghastly consequences.
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The Old Campaign Playbook Is Dead
How influencers, podcasts, and AI are rewriting the rules of political campaigns
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The Vicious Beating That Reshaped America
Two books about the 1856 caning of a senator show how words can incite violence—and also help defeat it.
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Comedy's Biggest Stand-Up Won't Be Hollywood's Next Leading Man
The comedian Nate Bargatze is an indisputably titanic name in his field. He’s been the top-grossing stand-up in America for two years in a row, he hosted last year’s Emmys (albeit to mixed reviews), and he’s even planning on opening a theme park called Nateland in his hometown of Nashville. Consequently, there was every reason to think that his new movie, The Breadwinner, would break through with audiences; it’s a breezy comedy aimed squarely at families, ostensibly filling an underserved part of the market. But the film has been roundly dismissed by critics and theatergoers, basically disappearing from the box office after opening last week. Bargatze’s first effort as a leading man, it seems, is yet another reminder that even the country’s biggest performers might not be able to make a comedy into a theatrical hit anymore.
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Iran’s Next Internet Blackout Is Inevitable
Flipping the kill switch is a potent exercise of authoritarian control.
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Photos of the Week: Kite Chase, River Float, Night Harvest
A pink-soup festival in Lithuania, wild horses in Germany, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, a gathering of Marilyn Monroe look-alikes in California, and much more
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Yet More Damning Revelations About Graham Platner
Voters may be questioning the Senate candidate’s claims that he is a changed man.
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California Democrats' Pyrrhic Victory
They avoided the worst-case scenario in the governor’s race, but their dysfunctional primary does not bode well.
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Is the GOP Starting to Defy Trump?
Republicans aren’t automatically falling in line anymore.
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What to Read to Really Understand Music
These memoirs, primers, and histories make up a captivating syllabus that will help explain what you hear.
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Why Reading Is Now Restless
AI has already changed writing. Now the technology is changing what it means to read.
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Trump’s Name Is Disappearing From More Than Just the Kennedy Center
Lawyers are ordering staff to remove Trump from email signatures, letterhead, webpages, brochures, promotional materials, press releases, signs, and more.
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The Iran Problem Trump Can’t Defer
A good-enough settlement for the United States may not satisfy its Israeli partners.
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The Alligator Alcatraz Boondoggle
The immigrant-detention facility, which may soon be shut down, has been a cruel and costly publicity stunt.
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Atlantic Trivia: High-Flying Women
Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
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Trump Thinks His Administration Is ‘Like Pirates’
They’re seizing ships, plundering cargo, and inflicting casualties on the high seas.
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How to Save Marriage
To find a future for the institution, we need to accurately account for its wildly varying past.
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The World Cup of Ugh
The World Cup is nearly here! But so far, at least, no one seems all that excited.
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What It Would Take to Finally Slay the Gerrymander
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.
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Maine Has a Graham Platner Problem
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Atlantic Trivia: Infrastructure
Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
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How to Save the Supreme Court From Itself
Kate Shaw on reforming the U.S. Supreme Court. Plus: extremism in the Democratic Party, and the history of the word graduate.
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Donald Trump’s Superficiality Is Bone-Deep
For the shallowest man ever to occupy the presidency, surface appeal is a guiding principle.
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The Arch Is Atrocious
Trump’s colossal monument would mar Washington’s skyline and disrupt one of its most sacred spaces.
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