The Wall Street Journal

The new season of “Beef” shows how the country club has changed while its allure and troubles remain timeless. 🔗: https://on.wsj.com/48kq6a1

More young and middle-aged Americans are dying of severe heart attacks, and women are at particular risk, a recent study finds. 🔗  https://on.wsj.com/4u3zfMw

The war in the Middle East has bolstered America’s status as an energy-exporting powerhouse

After months of dizziness and arms aching so badly she could barely walk her dog, Susan Glannan lay stunned in a sunny hospital room as a doctor told her she should have open heart surgery. The idea of a surgeon cracking her chest open and stopping her heart terrified her. Glannan, who was 64, lived alone. She didn’t have her affairs in order. And just four years earlier, she had had a procedure that she thought would take care of her heart problem—a diseased aortic valve. That first procedure was called a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR. It’s considered one of the biggest innovations in cardiovascular medicine, offering a way to spare patients the physical and emotional trauma of open heart surgery. TAVR was approved in 2011 for frail, older patients unlikely to withstand surgery—people with no more than a few years left to live. The Food and Drug Administration later approved it for healthier patients at intermediate and low risk of dying from surgery. Yet there’s limited research on how long the valves might last. And as TAVR has become more widely used among younger and healthier people, some are finding that their valves don’t work as well or last as long as they hoped. The procedure they thought would spare them a complicated surgery leads some to the operating table anyway. “It never dawned on me that four years later I’d be like, the murmur is bigger than it ever was,” Glannan said. “I never should have gotten the TAVR.” Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4twWbnH

The unemployment rate is low. The stock market is high. Consumer spending is healthy. But ask Americans how they feel about the economy, and they sound like there’s a recession going on. That matters first because when people’s perceptions of the economy sour, their behavior can change and slow the economy. And second, because sometimes they are seeing real problems that have yet to show up in the hard data. 🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4trIp5v

Boys these days are under the impression that they need an extreme makeover to get the girl. They couldn’t be more wrong, writes Joel Stein. 🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4e9AQf5

“My surroundings weren’t always beautiful. And I always used to think if I ever make any money, I would love to have beautiful, warm things around me.” Inside “Shark Tank” investor Robert Herjavec's property empire across North America and Australia: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4sTX6gI

The Polestar 4 forgoes a conventional rearview mirror—or a rear window, period—and instead uses a video display and a rear-facing camera. https://on.wsj.com/3OpImYZ

The boss wanted a fun corporate retreat in a tropical paradise. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived. 🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4u8UmNE

The popular story we’ve been told about AI is all wrong. Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming’s research suggests there’s a more effective way to interact with artificial intelligence. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4d4gaUL