New national polling averages from political analyst and pollster Nate Silver show Democrats leading in many of this November's key U.S. Senate races. The data show Democrats ahead in every race except those in Iowa and Kansas. This comes as The New York Times reports that tariff and trade issues could play a large role in the upcoming midterm elections, while reports surface that President Donald Trump is planning to make the midterms a referendum on himself. The Morning Joe panel breaks it all down.
A societal spotlight on extreme thinness is stripping body diversity from screens, just as fashion magazines did in the early aughts, mental health experts tell Axios. The big picture: Fake content creators are introducing unattainable, AI-generated body images that prey on human nature and exacerbate the struggle for many to reach self-acceptance for their bodies. - When shrunken celebrities "become the ideal ... because of their status, then the virtual influencers are going to be emulating that," Katy Bruchmann, who leads Santa Clara University's Social Cognition and Comparison Lab, says. - "Then, the more really thin, super beautiful virtual influencers you have, the target changes for all the real people again. It's a really scary…
High school students in Texas will also study early Muslims' "brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes," the "normalization of slavery," including the taking of female captives to use as "harem slaves."
The more David French tries to act as the arbiter of conservatism, the clearer it is that he never understood what American conservatism is trying to preserve.
