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Within the Fifties, the TV quiz present Twenty-One stumbled upon a viewership-boosting technique that for a short time frame can be all the craze: dishonest. This system fastened winners and losers, coached contestants, and usually dabbled in malfeasance. Different exhibits adopted swimsuit, scandal ensued, and Congress—Congress!—obtained concerned.
I’m relieved to say that this quiz operates past the revisions to the Communications Act of 1934, so I’ll fortunately offer you all of the solutions: They’re proper there in The Atlantic.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Rudy Giuliani’s son and Osama bin Laden’s niece have been among the many visitor hosts of the podcast Battle Room whereas what everlasting host served 4 months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the congressional investigation into January 6?
— From Jonathan D. Karl’s “(REDACTED) and the Murderers and Hitmen Who Turned His ‘Besties’” - What barnyard time period is used to explain the simply generated and artistically worthless AI content material that litters the web?
— From Charlie Warzel’s “A Instrument That Crushes Creativity” - What’s the identify of the nationwide legislature that comprises events together with Likud, Blue and White, and Yesh Atid?
— From Yair Rosenberg’s “Can Trump Comprise (REDACTED)’s Laborious Proper?”
And by the way in which, do you know that it’s been properly over a century since one pig did, the truth is, fly? And for 3 and a half miles, at that? Granted, this was a ride-along within the airplane of Lord John Moore-Brabazon of Kent, a peer and aviation pioneer, however contemplating that the flight occurred in November 1909, it’s nonetheless no small feat. (The pig was known as Icarus II, and he fared slightly higher than his eponym.)
Fly excessive till tomorrow.
Solutions:
- Steve Bannon. Karl appears into Bannon’s time in jail final yr—what he realized there, whom he befriended, how he managed to wield his affect over MAGA world even from behind bars. Learn extra.
- Slop. What with Donald Trump’s fondness for spammy AI movies and the proliferation of social networks devoted to soullessly generated content material, we’re dwelling in “the golden age of slop,” Charlie contends. “There isn’t any realm of life that’s unsloppable.” Learn extra.
- The Knesset. Final week, Israel’s Parliament hosted Trump for a speech celebrating the cease-fire within the battle in Gaza, however, Yair writes, members of the legislature’s far proper really feel jilted. Trump, he says, must restrain them if he’s to carry peace to the area. Learn extra.
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Monday, October 20, 2025
From the version of The Atlantic Every day by David A. Graham:
- What retailer just lately introduced that it’ll carry the weight-loss drug Ozempic at a reduced value of $499 a month—which means you will get your GLP-1, a scorching canine, and a fountain drink for $500.50?
— From Emily Oster’s “Ozempic for All” - The cultural theorist Dominic Pettman defines what modern-relationship time period as “abandonment with a up to date garnish” (including, “After we got here up with texting, we additionally got here up with not texting”)?
— From Anna Holmes’s “The Nice (REDACTED) Paradox” - In the way in which that runners have Strava, birders have eBird, and readers have Goodreads, what hobbyists are almost definitely to make use of the app Ravelry?
— From Tyler Austin Harper’s “The Surprising Profundity of a Film About Hen-Watching”
And by the way in which, do you know—talking of hobbies—that when he wasn’t writing contributions to the Western canon, the novelist Vladimir Nabokov saved himself busy observing and even discovering new species of butterflies? His lepidoptery fieldwork impelled full-time scientists to rethink the classification of a whole genus.
That he additionally composed chess issues is thus hardly shocking. However earlier than you go beating your self up, contemplate what he didn’t do a lot of: sleep.
Solutions:
- Costco. It’s an indication that costs for these “near-miracle medication” are falling and can preserve falling, Oster writes—undercutting the argument that they’re too pricey to supply by way of Medicaid. Rising the medication’ accessibility via Medicaid, she says, would save lives. Learn extra.
- Ghosting. Holmes writes that Pettman’s new e book would possibly provide a much less upsetting manner to consider the sudden cutoff of communication, although it can require rising a thicker pores and skin. Learn extra.
- Knitters. All of those hobby-specific apps must some extent been gamified, with progress bars, unlockable achievements, or different metrics that Tyler worries are sucking the enjoyment out of the hobbies themselves. Learn extra.
