Sports psychology has shifted from a problem-response fix to routine training, changing how athletes handle pressure, identity, and injury risk.
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Satirist Alexandra Petri joined The Atlantic as a staff writer in 2025 and won the Thurber Prize for a book of invented U.S. history documents.
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Four US microreactor startups reached criticality by July 4, meeting a federal target. But none can yet produce electricity for the grid.
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Exercise addiction is a compulsion built on an activity society rewards, which makes it uniquely hard to recognize and treat. Here is what clinicians know.
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Alexandra Petri's July 9 Atlantic column imagines surgeons, zookeepers, and dentists operating by U.S. Senate norms, with pointed results.
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Idrees Kahloon, a staff writer at The Atlantic and former Economist Washington bureau chief, covers U.S. economics, affordability politics, and transatlantic decline.
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Four US microreactors hit criticality on July 4, while China prepares to let Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek buy Nvidia H200 chips it had previously blocked.
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Katherine Cullen, MFA, LCSW, is a Knoxville psychotherapist and former Psychology Today editor who writes on exercise addiction, perfectionism, and relationships.
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The IMF said the world absorbed Trump's Iran war better than feared, forecasting 3 percent growth. Hours later, the bombing resumed, resetting the shock.
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Anthropic's J-lens tool exposed a hidden region inside Claude Opus 4.6, revealing concepts the model works through internally, including 'panic' and 'fake' as it chose to…
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