<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Biggest Fans

It was such a lovefest that some suspected foul play.

No, these weren’t all Russian bots trying to influence our perception of the Facebook founder. Our tech reporter Kaitlyn Tiffany talked to some very real, big-time fans.

“Zuckerberg is a great hero who has enabled the world to be a global village where people interact without limits,” Chris Dumbar from Nairobi, Kenya told Kaitlyn. “I love Mark.”

Get to know Dumbar and some other big Zuck fans here.

Foreign Policy

President Donald Trump announced that the cease-fire in Syria will continue.

But the long-term consequences of a U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East could be even worse than the short-term ones, our global reporter Uri Friedman writes.

Burn Baby Burn

Scientists plan to start a forest fire in Utah in the coming days. 

The controlled burn aims to bring back aspens, but researchers will also capture troves of data they hope to use to better understand wildfires.

Inquiry

William Taylor’s testimony made impeachment all but inevitable.

That’s David Graham’s read on it. Now just three questions remain, he argues: “How much broader the scandal gets, how much worse the details become, and how many—if any—Republicans get on board with impeachment.”

No one cares about your love language.

The system was designed to help people learn more about their partners, not themselves.

But today, as Ashley Fetters puts it, “a framework meant to help people become more attuned to their partners now gets treated like a personality test.”

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1-Across, seven letters: Tribe that served as code talkers in World War I

Try your hand at our daily mini crossword (available on our site here), which gets more challenging through the week.

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Caroline Mimbs Nyce is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.