This week, The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that the Trump administration inadvertently added him to a discussion of a military strike on Houthi militias in Yemen, conducted over the encrypted messaging app Signal. Catch up on the story and some of our writers' analysis here: To say that long-distance runners embrace difficulty is to say the obvious. When you watch many thousands of people happily push themselves through a race that they might not even be allowed to finish, though, you start to get the hint that something deeply human is going on. People like things that are really hard. In fact, the enormity of a task often is why people pursue it in the first place.
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