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On Thursday, Tesla shareholders could anoint Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire. Will Gottsegen writes about the company’s existential vote in The Atlantic Daily:

With millions of Americans stuck in food-stamp limbo, healthy foods are a luxury now more than ever, Nicholas Florko argues:

Venezuelans have experienced “propaganda” about Americans attacking for decades, Quico Toro tells David Frum, but now “there’s this disorienting feeling of ‘Wait a minute—this time it’s different.’” Watch “The David Frum Show”: https://lnkd.in/eqdEYXfv

Popular ideas about inflammation have lost touch with medical reality, Jason Liebowitz writes—even as conventional treatments for diseases that cause inflammation have become more effective than ever:

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How did Dick Cheney, the once-designated villain of the Iraq War, somehow mutate into a hero of the anti-Trump constitutional resistance? The answer, argues David Frum, is that there was one Dick Cheney all along: https://lnkd.in/e2hxc-HZ

In his final “Dear James” column, James Parker responds to a writer dismayed by the acrimony in online support groups and offers a bit of hard-won wisdom to all his readers: “Expansion of sympathy is a good thing, especially now.”

The critic and editor Malcolm Cowley published John Cheever’s first short story, rescued William Faulkner from oblivion, and ensured the publication of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Michael Gorra on America’s great literary-talent scout:

Donald Trump’s supposed ambition for a third term is a legal problem with a political answer, Brian C. Kalt writes. “The people are the ultimate enforcers” of the Constitution: https://lnkd.in/eSdKXv8s 🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg / Getty.

On the surface, grade inflation might seem simple to address, Ian Bogost writes. But it’s a strange and wicked problem on campus, with no single cause or obvious solution: