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The idea behind community-school programs is that “students can’t succeed academically if they’re struggling at home”—and though the effort won’t be a “great equalizer,” it could help to close a gap, Annie Lowrey argues:

Californians will be voting on a wealth-tax proposal in November, making a risky bet “about the lengths the rich will go to avoid paying their fair share," Rogé Karma writes.

Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer reports from Minneapolis. “The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions,” Serwer argues. “The first is the belief that diverse communities aren’t possible.” https://lnkd.in/ekR2AsiV Earlier this year, J. D. Vance said in a speech that “social bonds form among people who have something in common.” But this has been proved wrong in Minneapolis, Serwer writes: The vice president’s remarks “are the antithesis to the neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them.” “A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling,” Serwer continues. Although this may be the case for some on the left, “it is not true of millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life,” Serwer argues. Third is that the “MAGA faith in liberal weakness has been paired with the conviction that real men—Trump’s men—are conversely strong,” Serwer continues. “The federal agents sent to Minnesota wear body armor and masks, and bear long guns and sidearms. But their skittishness and brutality are qualities associated with fear, not resolve. It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester.” “No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor,” Serwer argues. “These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back.” https://lnkd.in/ekR2AsiV 📸: Jack Califano for The Atlantic

Do you have an important project in mind? The 19th-century philosopher’s approach is still timely today, Arthur C. Brooks wrote in 2024: https://lnkd.in/eWx2fzMb “People want to know how to do a big thing because in a life full of quotidian trivia, a major project … conveys significance and permanence,” Brooks says. “To paraphrase John F. Kennedy’s reason for the U.S. space program, many people want to do something not because it is easy, but because it is hard.” Arthur Schopenhauer, the author of hefty volumes of philosophy, knew a thing or two about big projects. But he was also an applied philosopher who was determined to show through dozens of essays how philosophy could provide practical life advice. In one piece of counsel, Schopenhauer imagines a mason who, ignorant of the grand design of the house he is building, gets lost in the mundane details. “Keeping the big picture in view enhances the success of any task requiring significant time and effort,” Brooks notes, citing a 2020 study in which a group of undergraduate students set specific goals for their grades. “By doing so, they were induced to see their class performance across the semester in its totality … The researchers found that the goal-setting students performed significantly better than their peers.” “Another important element in the wise conduct of life is to preserve a proper proportion between our thought for the present and our thought for the future,” Schopenhauer observed. For most of us, the problem with finding that balance comes from not being present in the here and now but getting stuck thinking about what is to come. “If we’re not mindful in this way, that hurts our ability to focus and make tangible progress in the immediate present, and creates an incentive to procrastinate on big projects,” Brooks adds. At the link, Brooks offers three pieces of advice for applying Schopenhauer’s lessons to your own big goal: https://lnkd.in/eWx2fzMb 🎨: Jan Buchczik

Hours after the Minneapolis shooting, Tim Cook was schmoozing with Trump at the White House—showing that the titans of Silicon Valley are still not distancing themselves from the president, argues Lila Shroff.

Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer argues. 📸: Jack Califano for The Atlantic https://lnkd.in/g8HKHyGp

Michael Pollan traveled to a remote cave in New Mexico to try to understand consciousness. What he learned about “untying the knot of self”:

New research suggests that Donald Trump’s base is composed of four distinct groups—and the president’s political success depends on his ability to play a different role for each group, Daniel Yudkin and Stephen Hawkins write. https://lnkd.in/gGfVSvHM

In a shift, American women are more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman, Stephanie H. Murray wrote in March. https://lnkd.in/g9wnf3BM

Jennette McCurdy’s new novel, “Half His Age,” may seem like a story of exploitation—but it’s much more intriguing than that, Sophie Gilbert argues.