'Deb and the dentist watch me, their eyes downcast, as though they’re reluctant to let my teeth go home with me.'

WHY IS IT ACTUALLY ALWAYS LIKE THIS

When you’re a kid at the dentist's office, all of the scraping and scrubbing is rewarded with a little prize from a treasure box, Elaine Godfrey writes in The Atlantic Daily. “When you are an adult, there are no prizes. There is only pain.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

And now for something completely different: my latest unhinged rant in The Atlantic Daily newsletter

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A new look at undecided voters. I talk to Lynne Kelleher, one of the subjects of The Atlantic piece penned by Elaine Godfrey, 'The #RFK -Curious Women Of Bucks County.'
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Great profile by the fear-inspiring Elaine Godfrey theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The apparently frightening Elaine Godfrey tells the Matt Gaetz story like no one else can: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Matt Gaetz arrived in Congress as a freshman nobody from the Florida Panhandle. Elaine Godfrey on how he got to Washington in the first place—and ultimately emerged as the heir to Trumpism: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Must-read of the day: Elaine Godfrey on Matt Gaetz: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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Suburban women will be a critical contingent of voters in November.

@ElaineJGodfrey spends some time w/ a focus group of educated suburbanites, finding a glaring problem for both candidates: None of these women likes either Biden or Trump.

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Lisan al-Gaib!

All of the women were disgusted with their current choices: Trump is repugnant, they agreed, while most of them viewed Biden as ancient and incoherent. “Believe it or not, I’m hoping one of them drops dead” before the election, one said.

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“These suburbanites disliked their options with an intensity that was almost startling,” writes Elaine Godfrey. “If other swing-state voters feel similarly, the long-ordained Trump-Biden rematch could be even more volatile than expected”: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

A brilliant investigation by Stephanie McCrummen of a plot to dispossess the Maasai in Tanzania:
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How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…