This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.This weekend, read about why cosmologists are fighting over everything, how to make the most of your professional decline, and more.The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All WrongCosmologists are fighting over everything.By Ross AndersenYour Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You ThinkHere’s how to make the most of it. (From 2019)By Arthur C. BrooksElon Musk Is Playing GodThe tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.By Charlie Warzel and Hana KirosThe Computer-Science Bubble Is BurstingArtificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it.By Rose HorowitchThe Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but ShouldMany people don’t know very much about their older relatives. But if we don’t ask, we risk never knowing our own history. (From 2022)By Elizabeth KeatingThe Week AheadJurassic World Rebirth, an action movie about a team that makes a disturbing discovery while on a mission to retrieve DNA from dinosaurs (in theaters Wednesday)Season 2 of The Sandman, a show about a cosmic being who controls dreams and finally escapes a more than century-long imprisonment (Volume 1 premieres Thursday on Netflix)Dictating the Agenda, a book by Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis about the resurgence of authoritarian politics around the world (out Monday)EssayKarsten Moran / ReduxAmerica’s Coming Smoke EpidemicBy Zoë SchlangerFor 49 straight days, everyone in Seeley Lake was breathing smoke. A wildfire had ignited outside the small rural community in Montana, and the plume of smoke had parked itself over the houses. Air quality plummeted. At several moments, the concentration of particulate matter in the air exceeded the upper limit of what monitors could measure.Christopher Migliaccio, an associate professor of immunology at the University of Montana, saw an opportunity to do what few have ever done: study what happens after people get exposed to wildfire smoke.Read the full article.More in Culture The worst sandwich is back.The blockbuster that captured a growing American riftThank God for The Bear.Your summer project: watching these moviesA stunning reinvention of the zombie filmHow Toni Morrison changed publishingCatch Up on The Atlantic The president’s weaponTulsi Gabbard chooses loyalty to Trump.How Trump lives with the threat of Iranian assassinationPhoto AlbumThe Turkish free diver Şahika Ercümen dives amid plastic waste on the Ortaköy coastline, in Turkey. (Şebnem Coşkun / Anadolu / Getty)An estimated 11 million metric tons of plastic enter oceans each year, according to the U.S. State Department. These photos show how some of it accumulates in highly visible ways.Play our daily crossword.Explore all of our newsletters.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.