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• Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate due to cynicism and hypocrisy within his own Republican party, according to McKay Coppins.
• Fall COVID booster shots are recommended, especially for high-risk groups. The new bivalent boosters target both the original COVID strain and Omicron subvariants.
• Adam Serwer argues that conservatives’ calls for censorship have reached their natural conclusion with the banning of books and limiting of speech in schools.
• An ineffective cold medication, phenylephrine, has been allowed on shelves for years despite lack of evidence it works, according to Sarah Zhang.
• Jeffrey Goldberg warns of the dangers of political violence, drawing lessons from the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
• Other topics covered include gender differences in stress drinking patterns, challenges for women trial lawyers, reflections on motherhood, Kevin McCarthy’s struggles with far-right House Republicans, devastating floods in Libya, the downsides of iPhone cords, and more.

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