- + Bob Dylan Broke Rules. A Complete Unknown Follows Them.—The gift of Bob Dylan’s music is to make the world seem weirder, or rather to reveal the world to be as strange as it really is. He sings of life as a...
- + The Most Distant Known Galaxy—NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Olmsted, S. Carniani, JADES Collaboration Day 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : the most distant known ...
- + What ‘Silent Night’ Misunderstands About Christmas—“Silent Night” is one of the most popular Christmas hymns, often sung in churches lit only by candles. The song describes a “tender and mild” infant C...
- + The Darkest Movie of the Year—Cinematic history has long been lousy with Draculas : Dozens of remakes, sequels, and spin-offs of Bram Stoker’s seminal gothic novel have graced the...
- + The Most Haunting—And Most Inspiring—Moment in A Christmas Carol —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 rec...
- + Why Are My Neighbors Screaming at Me?—Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’...
- + An Energetic Stellar Nursery—ESA / Webb, NASA and CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : an energetic stellar nur...
- + How to Not Fight With Your Family About Politics—My family includes a farmer and a fiber artist in rural Kentucky, who rarely miss a Sunday service at their local Baptist church; a retired Jewish ban...
- + You Are Drinking the Wrong Eggnog—For centuries, eggnog has been a part of America’s Christmas festivities. George Washington was rumored to have his own recipe, and the concoction was...
- + Trapped—And Lavishly Rewarded—For Playing a Part—Maybe it’s the time of year, but I’ve been thinking lately about Nora, the whirling, frantic heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House , overspendin...
- + Desperate Housewives at Christmas—Maybe it’s the time of year, but I’ve been thinking lately about Nora, the whirling, frantic heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House , overspendin...
- + The Walmart Effect—No corporation looms as large over the American economy as Walmart. It is both the country’s biggest private employer, known for low pay, and its ...
- + The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024—Editor’s Note: Find all of The Atlantic ’s “Best of 2024” coverage here . span[class*="EditorsNote_label__"] { display: none; } di...
- + Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts It’s conventional wisdom that young people will...
- + Joe Biden’s Moral Wisdom—This morning, the White House announced that President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole. The...
- + American Politics Has an Age Problem—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 rec...
- + The End of News—Americans have record-low trust in the media. They’re reading traditional news less. Platforms, too, have broken up with news organizations, making ...
- + Not the Life Matt Gaetz Was Planning On—T he normal rules of public disgrace may no longer apply to Donald Trump. But at least some expectation of good behavior remains, it seems, for a pol...
- + 2024: The Year in Volcanic Activity—Out of an estimated 1,350 active volcanoes worldwide, about 45 have continuing eruptions, and about 80 erupt each year, spewing steam, ash, toxic gase...
- + Have the Conversation Before It’s Too Late—We need to start an important conversation about all of the important conversations we need to have. Our backlog of important conversations seems to ...
- + Six Books to Read by the Fire—When I taught high-school English, I loved planning out the syllabus, book by book. Once chosen, one novel might lead naturally to another; certain ti...
- + A Spray of Glowing Filaments—NASA, ESA, M. Stute, M. Karovska, D. de Martin, and M. Zamani Day 23 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a spray of glowing filaments....
- + Two Different Ways of Understanding Fatherhood—A merican literature is full of books about fathers. Philip Roth, John Updike, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, David Gilbert, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Le...
- + Fatherhood Doesn’t Have to Be a Private Endeavor—A merican literature is full of books about fathers. Philip Roth, John Updike, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, David Gilbert, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Le...
- + How Tortillas Lost Their Magic—Photographs by Victor Llorente At about midnight each weekday, a group of five men and women arrives at the darkened restaurant doors of Sobre Masa ...
- + New York City Has Lost Control of Crime—It was like something out of the horrors of New York City’s past. At 7:30 yesterday morning, a man approached a woman sleeping on a Coney Island F t...
- + Dear Therapist: How Do I Deal With My Hostile Sister?—Dear Therapist, This holiday season, I’ve been navigating some major challenges with my older sister and my boyfriend. The difficulty started last w...
- + Best of How To : Identify What You Enjoy—Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts This episode, from our first season, called How to Build a H...
- + Best of How To: Identify What You Enjoy—Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts This episode, from our first season, called How to Build a H...
- + The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela—Late last year, Venezuela’s democratic opposition set out to choose, jointly, someone who could challenge Nicolás Maduro, the country’s autocratic pre...
- + The Custodian—Illustrations by Miki Lowe Edward Hirsch didn’t always write poetry for a living. He’s been a busboy, a railroad brakeman, a garbage man; he’s worke...
- + Martin Short Deserved Better—If you weren’t aware that Martin Short was hosting Saturday Night Live last night, you might have had a difficult time figuring that out. It’s not t...
- + The Edge of a Spiral—ESA / Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : the edge of a spiral. Located roughly 150 mi...
- + The Hysterical Crypto Bubble Somehow Became Respectable—U ntil now , the phrase crypto winter meant that cryptocurrency traders were facing hard times: a period of tumbling and depressed prices that had t...
- + The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t—California’s new minimum-wage law hadn’t even gone into effect before it was declared a disaster. Business groups and Republican politicians have arg...
- + How Bitcoin Became Boring—U ntil now , the phrase crypto winter meant that cryptocurrency traders were facing hard times: a period of tumbling and depressed prices that had t...
- + Twelve Stories You Won’t Want to Miss—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 rec...
- + Elon Musk’s Determining Role in Washington—Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday ...
- + Inside a Chaotic Nebula—NASA, ESA, STScI / AURA Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : inside a chaotic nebula. Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-...
- + The Strange Challenge of Small Talk—This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with deligh...
- + Every Woman on This Show Is Loathsome. That’s By Design.—Dune: Prophecy opens with a thesis statement. It comes as the Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen (played by Olivia Williams), a member of the powerful, q...
- + The Price of Humiliating Nicolás Maduro—F or many years, Venezuelans understood instinctively what was meant when someone invoked la situación in conversation. The rich started leaving th...
- + The Limits of the GOP Trifecta—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 rec...
- + The Potential Backlash to Trump Unbound—D onald Trump will return to office facing far fewer constraints than when he entered the White House in 2017. The political, legal, institutional, a...
- + COVID’s End-of-Year Surprise—The twinkling of lit-up trees and festive displays in store windows have come to mean two things: The holidays are upon us, and so is COVID. Since the...
- + ChatGPT Won’t Say His Name—This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Why ...
- + The Art Monster Under the Bed—This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Art-making is not the kind of wo...
- + A Galactic Chain—ESA / Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey / DOE / FNAL / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA Day 20 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar...
- + Elon Musk’s X Endgame—After months of negotiation, Congress was close to passing a spending bill on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. Elon Musk decided he had other...
- + South Korea’s Crisis Is Nowhere Near Over—The past two weeks in South Korean politics have featured enough twists to fill a Netflix K-drama. President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, shock...
- + Even Barry Jenkins Can Only Do So Much—Early in Mufasa: The Lion King , one shot quickly differentiates the new movie from the other CGI-heavy spins on classic Disney cartoons. Just before...
- + Photos of the Week: Relic Crown, Floating Village, Ice Harvest—A Christmas fair in Romania, an enormous indoor ice rink in Paris, a surfing Santa Claus in Australia, a sunset camel safari in India, a cyclo-cross r...
- + Bashar al-Assad Exploited Alawites’ Fear—F or decades, the Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad built his power on a single, relentless narrative of survival: The regime presented itself as the ...
- + The GOP Is Treating Musk Like He’s in Charge—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 rec...
- + America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out—Yesterday, America had one of its worst days of bird flu to date. For starters, the CDC confirmed the country’s first severe case of human bird-flu i...
- + A Nonreligious Holiday Ritual—This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic ’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures...
- + Why Reading Books in High School Matters—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Last month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “ The Elite Coll...
- + Postpone Your Pleasures—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. M y father-in-law , with whom I was ver...
- + Musk Makes a Mess of Congress—Elon Musk was born a South African, so he’s ineligible to serve as either president or vice president of the United States. But he is swiftly showing,...
- + A Beacon in the Clouds—ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a beacon in the clouds. This image from th...
- + An Autistic Teenager Fell Hard for a Chatbot—My godson, Michael, is a playful, energetic 15-year-old, with a deep love of Star Wars , a wry smile, and an IQ in the low 70s. His learning disabili...
- + A Biting Satire of the Art World’s Monstrousness—When she coined the term art monster in 2014, Jenny Offill didn’t anticipate how fervently readers would take to it. In her novel Dept. of Specu...
- + The Cost of Lawlessness on the West Bank—I t was a normal morning during the autumn olive harvest. On a hillside northeast of Ramallah, on November 8, a group of roughly 15 or 20 Palestinian...
- + Can You Be an ‘Art Monster’ and a Good Person?—When she coined the term art monster in 2014, Jenny Offill didn’t anticipate how fervently readers would take to it. In her novel Dept. of Specu...
- + A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S.—A mericans are unusually likely to die young compared with citizens of other developed countries. The U.S. has more fatalities from gun violence, dr...
- + The Luxury Makeover of the Worst Pastry on Earth—On the internet, there exists a $102 loaf of bread that people talk about like it’s a drug. It’s a panettone—the fruitcake-adjacent yeasted bread that...
- + In Praise of Mercy—Earlier this month, nearly 1,500 Americans found themselves the recipients of very good news : President Joe Biden had granted them executive clemenc...
- + How Liberal America Came to Its Senses—A decade ago, cultural norms in elite American institutions took a sharply illiberal turn. Professors would get disciplined, journalists fired, ordi...
- + America Is Suddenly Getting Healthier. No One Knows Why.—A mericans are unusually likely to die young compared with citizens of other developed countries. The U.S. has more fatalities from gun violence, dr...
- + A Gala for Right-Wing Revenge—Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of the Proud Boys, was extremely upset with me. He started listing things that I should feel (ashamed and terrible about m...
- + Why Online Returns Are a Hassle Now—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 rec...
- + Trump Has Found the Media’s Biggest Vulnerability—Now that the election is over, Donald Trump has returned to one of his most cherished pastimes: filing nuisance lawsuits. Abusing the legal system was...
- + They Really Mean It—Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of the Proud Boys, was extremely upset with me. He started listing things that I should feel (ashamed and terrible about m...
- + Images of Krampus—Saint Nick’s Dark Companion—Tales of Saint Nicholas might feature him bringing gifts to good boys and girls, but ancient folklore in Europe’s Alpine region also speaks of Krampus...
- + Gas Will Be the First Big Climate Fight of the Trump Era—When the tanker ships come toward the tiny town of Cameron, Louisiana, Travis Dardar, a shrimp fisherman, can hear their wake coming before he sees it...
- + The Outrage Over 100 Men Only Goes So Far—At first, it was the Airbnb owner I felt sorry for. I once had a friend who rented out her flat for a year while she was abroad, and came back to dis...
- + Ukraine’s Hardest Winter—Photographs by Sasha Maslov T he soldier , a lanky, dark-haired sergeant named Vitalii Ovcharenko, met me at a gas-station café on an otherwise dese...
- + An Energetic Protostar—NASA, ESA, K. Stapelfeldt, G. Kober Day 18 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : an energetic protostar. FS Tau is a multi-star system m...
- + The Outrage Over ‘100 Men’ Only Goes So Far—At first, it was the Airbnb owner I felt sorry for. I once had a friend who rented out her flat for a year while she was abroad, and came back to dis...
- + You Are Cordially Invited to an Event That Could Ruin Your Life—“I’d want to know if anybody nominated for a high-level job in Washington legitimately assaulted somebody … If people have an allegation to make, co...
- + The Pro-Eating-Disorder Internet Is Back—The glorification of dangerous thinness is a long-standing problem in American culture, and it is especially bad on the internet, where users can find...
- + Why Can’t Robots Stay Robots?—Alan Turing’s original 1950 proposal for what we now know as the Turing test—an experiment to gauge whether a machine can convincingly act like a pers...
- + Why Do Big Families Get Such a Bad Rap?—In the video, my siblings and I stand with our mother on the large porch of a house somewhere in Virginia, before a small crowd gathered across the st...
- + Eating-Disorder Content Is Thriving on X—The glorification of dangerous thinness is a long-standing problem in American culture, and it is especially bad on the internet, where users can find...
- + The Robot That Became a Mother—Alan Turing’s original 1950 proposal for what we now know as the Turing test—an experiment to gauge whether a machine can convincingly act like a pers...
- + An Ode to Big Families—In the video, my siblings and I stand with our mother on the large porch of a house somewhere in Virginia, before a small crowd gathered across the st...
- + Trump to Russia’s Rescue—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 rec...
- + Hyundai Is Becoming the New Tesla—Hyundai has a lot riding on a patch of rural Georgia. In October, the South Korean auto giant opened a new electric-vehicle factory west of Savannah a...
- + The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks—Jonathan Zittrain breaks ChatGPT: If you ask it a question for which my name is the answer, the chatbot goes from loquacious companion to something a...
- + ChatGPT Won’t Say My Name—Jonathan Zittrain breaks ChatGPT: If you ask it a question for which my name is the answer, the chatbot goes from loquacious companion to something a...
- + I’ve Been Left Off My Friends’ Group Chat—Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’...
- + The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military—I. Supply and Demand Here, in the third decade of the 21st century, the most sought-after ammunition in the U.S. arsenal reaches the vital stage of...
- + A Gathering of Ancient Stars—ESA / Hubble & NASA, F. Niederhofer, L. Girardi Day 17 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a gathering of ancient stars. The globu...
- + RIP, the Axis of Resistance—Iran’s Axis of Resistance, an informal coalition of anti-Western and anti-Israeli militias, was already having a terrible year. But the loss of the Sy...
- + Bogotá’s Water Rationing Is a Preview—Last winter, the mountains that shape Bogotá’s skyline more than any skyscraper were on fire . Which is strange in a place known for its abundant rai...
- + The 10 Best Albums of 2024—Editor’s Note: Find all of The Atlantic ’s “Best of 2024” coverage here . span[class*="EditorsNote_label__"] { display: none; } di...
- + Bob Dylan’s Carnival Act—E verything, as Charles Péguy said, begins in mysticism and ends in politics. Except if you’re Bob Dylan. If you’re Bob Dylan, you start political an...
- + Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town?—Photographs by Kennedi Carter Boley is easy to miss. The flat vista of eastern Oklahoma is briefly interrupted by a handful of homes and some boar...
- + America Needs a Leader, Not a Salesman—Washington’s Nightmare Donald Trump is the tyrant the first president feared, Tom Nichols wrote in the November 2024 issue. Thank you, Tom Nich...
- + Does Democracy Even Work?—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts If you got an extra $2,500 after filing your taxes, who would...
- + Silicon Valley Heads to Mar-a-Lago—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 rec...
- + How to Navigate the Era of Trump—Many friends of mine are pretty deep in the slough of despond. I occasionally plead with them to make their predictions of catastrophe less hopeless a...
- + The Push for Puberty Blockers Got Ahead of the Research—Should American states be allowed to ban puberty blockers for teenagers with gender dysphoria? That issue is currently being considered by the Suprem...
- + Has Your Cat Closed Its Rings Today?—One dreary November Monday as I was enjoying a morning cup of tea, my phone alerted me that my cat, Avalanche, was exercising less than usual. For the...
- + A New View of a Distant Spiral—NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Lee, T. Williams, PHANGS Team Day 16 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a new view of a distant spiral. Thi...
- + What If You Just Skipped the Holidays?—For years, ahead of family holiday gatherings, Alicia Dudley would wake up anxious. Since she’d gotten married, her relatives and her husband’s had ...
- + Oliver Sacks’s Lifelong Search for Recognition—Letters , a collection of just a small portion of Oliver Sacks’s correspondence, runs past 700 pages. The life of the world-famous neurologist and ...
- + The Technology That Actually Runs Our World—You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or wha...
- + You Might Be Worried About the Wrong Algorithms—You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or wha...
- + How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration—N ot long ago , immigration was a winning issue for Democrats. When Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012, his defeat was blamed, in part, on his h...
- + How to Move On From the Worst of Identity Politics—D onald Trump’s 2024 victory was about much more than a backlash to left-identity politics. Inflation, among other matters, loomed larger. Still, Tru...
- + Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All—Five days after last month’s election, Senator Chris Murphy rendered a damning verdict on his party’s performance. “That was a cataclysm,” the Connect...
- + Best of How To : Waste Time—Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts This episode, from our fifth season, called How to Keep Tim...
- + How to Move on From the Worst of Identity Politics—D onald Trump’s 2024 victory was about much more than a backlash to left-identity politics. Inflation, among other matters, loomed larger. Still, Tru...
- + Chris Rock Knows How to Troll—During his fourth time hosting Saturday Night Live , Chris Rock brought a particularly magnetic and mischievous energy—one that showed his mastery of...
- + SNL Put a Mischievous Chris Rock on Full Display—During his fourth time hosting Saturday Night Live , Chris Rock brought a particularly magnetic and mischievous energy—one that showed his mastery of...
- + Fossil Record for My Grandmother— for Cedar Sigo The first fossil of my grandmother is the light they used to find her cancer, how it slithered through her body like a...
- + Glowing From Within—ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana Day 15 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : glowing from...
- + Six Binge-Worthy Movie Series—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 rec...
- + Trump Confronts Republican Rifts—Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday ...
- + A Sky Full of Stars—ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani, M. G. Guarcello Day 14 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a sky full of stars. The open cluste...
- + Books and Movies to Sustain an Attention Span—This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with deligh...
- + What Nikki Giovanni Wouldn’t Write About—Writing about the loss of public figures is something I rarely do, because my muddled thoughts typically take more time to process than the news cycle...
- + The Health-Care System Isn’t Hopeless—Earlier this month, the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare was assassinated during morning rush hour on a busy block in Midtown Manhattan; th...
- + 12 Years Later, Two Different Tales of Grief for Sandy Hook Parents—O n the night of his daughter’s death, Robbie Parker remembered the Christmas cards. Back at home, hours after his 6-year-old had been murdered in he...
- + How Two Sandy Hook Parents Learned to Live—O n the night of his daughter’s death, Robbie Parker remembered the Christmas cards. Back at home, hours after his 6-year-old had been murdered in he...
- + What’s Going On With Those Drones Over New Jersey?—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 rec...
- + Nickel Boys Is an Audacious Experiment—“No one believed them until someone else said it.” Readers encounter this sentiment early in The Nickel Boys , Colson Whitehead’s award-winning 201...
- + Sora Is Finally Here—This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Si...
- + Nickel Boys Is An Audacious Experiment—“No one believed them until someone else said it.” Readers encounter this sentiment early in The Nickel Boys , Colson Whitehead’s award-winning 201...
- + Nickel Boys Is the Best Literary Adaptation of the Year—“No one believed them until someone else said it.” Readers encounter this sentiment early in The Nickel Boys , Colson Whitehead’s award-winning 201...
- + Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era—This year is set to break the record for the hottest year ever recorded. It was a banner year for climate devastation: Southern Africa and South A...
- + Environmental Diplomacy Had a Terrible Year—This year is set to break the record for the hottest year ever recorded. It was a banner year for climate devastation: Southern Africa and South A...
- + A Cloud in the Deep Sky—NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani Day 13 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a cloud in the deep sky. This image, featuring the central re...
- + ‘It’s One of Those Infinite Time-Loop Situations You Might Have Heard About’—This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. What sort of work is Solvej Ball...
- + Hopeful Images From 2024—This has been another year filled with news stories and photos that can be difficult or disturbing to view. For a decade now, I’ve made it an annual t...
- + A Mindset for the Trump Era—Nearly every major pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong was sentenced last month to a multiyear prison term. The 45 defendants had helped organize a ...
- + How to Keep Your Moral Compass—Nearly every major pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong was sentenced last month to a multiyear prison term. The 45 defendants had helped organize a ...
- + Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters—D onald Trump’s support in rural America appears to have virtually no ceiling. In last month’s election, Trump won country communities by even larger...
- + What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok?—Many will read last week’s federal appeals-court opinion that could ban TikTok as a loss for the First Amendment , and in some ways it is . If T...
- + The Wellness Women Are on the March—O n Instagram , the wellness women don’t seem like a political movement. Their pictures scroll by like snapshots from heaven. Angels with luminous ski...
- + When a Shooting Spurs a Social-Media Cycle—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 rec...
- + Luigi Mangione Has to Mean Something—For more than a week now, a 26-year-old software engineer has been America’s main character. Luigi Mangione has been charged with murdering UnitedHeal...
- + Lina Khan Goes Out With a Bang—On Tuesday, the federal government succeeded in doing something that it hasn’t done, or even seriously tried to do, in decades: It persuaded a court ...
- + Shopping Shouldn’t Be Instantaneous—This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic ’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures...
- + RFK Jr.’s Testosterone Regimen Is Almost Reasonable—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal health-care routine is perplexing in its inconsistencies. He decries seed oils, despite near scientific consensus t...
- + Liberals Have an Own-Goal Problem—The second election of Donald Trump has served as an opportunity for all sorts of people to reevaluate their priorities, and for some undetermined num...
- + The Fantasy of Buying Without Shopping—This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic ’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures...
- + RFK Jr. Will Be America’s Self-Experimenter in Chief—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal health-care routine is perplexing in its inconsistencies. He decries seed oils, despite near scientific consensus t...
- + Adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude Sounded Impossible. It Wasn’t.—In his magnum opus, One Hundred Years of Solitude , the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez turned a century-long history lesson into a mesme...
- + Swearing Off Pleasure to Own the Right—The second election of Donald Trump has served as an opportunity for all sorts of people to reevaluate their priorities, and for some undetermined num...
- + The Virtuous Circle of a Happy Personality—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. A few weeks ago , I wrote about happi...
- + A Novel That Disrupts a Fundamental Law of the Universe—Some years after his theory of relativity changed our fundamental understanding of the concept of time, Einstein wrote that “there is no audible tick-...
- + Compose Your Very Own Ode to Joy—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. A few weeks ago , I wrote about happi...
- + A Clash of Titans—NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Day 12 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a clash of titans. This mid-infrared image of colliding galaxies IC 2...
- + What If Every Day Were November 18?—Some years after his theory of relativity changed our fundamental understanding of the concept of time, Einstein wrote that “there is no audible tick-...
- + Will January 6 Be Memory-Holed?—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts There are two very different stories out there about what hap...
- + The Ozempic Flip-Flop—Photographs by Kristian Thacker A few years ago, West Virginia, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, quietly began a small and unusua...
- + 2024 in Photos: Wrapping Up the Year—As the end of the year approaches, here is a look back at some of the major news moments of 2024. Events covered in this essay (the last of a three-pa...
- + Is This How Democrats Win Back the Working Class?—A week after Donald Trump won the presidency again, I sat across from Chris Murphy in his minimalist but well-appointed D.C. office. The Connecticut...
- + The 13 Best TV Shows of 2024—Editor’s Note: Find all of The Atlantic ’s “Best of 2024” coverage here . span[class*="EditorsNote_label__"] { display: none; } di...
- + The Government’s Disturbing Rationale for Banning TikTok—Last week, a federal court upheld the extraordinary use of government power against TikTok, the social-media platform that an estimated 170 million Am...
- + A Scandalous Resignation—When Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, in 2017, I was about to drive my daughter and some of her friends to a soccer tryout. I remember tha...
- + The Crisis Neither Party Is Equipped to Handle—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 rec...
- + This Is How Political Violence Goes Mainstream—It is tempting to think of political extremists as those who have had their brain flambéed by a steady media diet of oddball podcasters, fringe YouTub...
- + Luigi Mangione and the Era of Normie Extremism—It is tempting to think of political extremists as those who have had their brain flambéed by a steady media diet of oddball podcasters, fringe YouTub...
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- + What a Single Act of Mayhem Can Do—The line between a normal, functioning society and catastrophic decivilization can be crossed with a single act of mayhem. This is why, for those who ...
- + Luigi Mangione’s Commonplace, Deplorable Politics—In the last scene of Terrence Malick’s 1973 film, Badlands , a recently arrested spree killer is sitting handcuffed next to a state trooper. Unpertur...
- + Read These Six Books—Just Trust Us—Books are, despite the common adage, often intended to be judged by their covers. Their jacket flaps include marketing copy designed to entice a brows...
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- + Self-Portrait: Winter Landscape, 1997—through cracks in the stone foundation entered drafts of air and mice I could not bring myself to kill so trapped them in translucent boxes with a...
- + ‘Dumbed-Down Catholicism Was a Disaster’—W hen Nick Chancey was a boy in West Virginia, he didn’t have much time for Christianity. He spent the occasional Sunday hiking into the woods with h...
- + Nikki Giovanni’s Wondrous Celebrations of Black Life—In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Proj...
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- + The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back—Photographs by Brendan George Ko Read this article in Hawaiian . A t the edge of a forest on the island of O‘ahu, through two massive metal ...
- + What Does America Owe Hawai‘i?—Photographs by Brendan George Ko Read this article in Hawaiian . A t the edge of a forest on the island of O‘ahu, through two massive metal ...
- + The Trump Family’s Many Entanglements—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 rec...
- + The Conversation Democrats Need to Have—In the weeks since the election, I’ve been thinking about the woman who told me she’d heard that Kamala Harris “let in all the illegals who killed all...
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- + Democrats Need to Change Minds—In the weeks since the election, I’ve been thinking about the woman who told me she’d heard that Kamala Harris “let in all the illegals who killed all...
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- + RFK Jr. Is Seducing America With Wellness—In 1829, the Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham invented a cracker made from coarse wheat that he believed would help restore American health. He ...
- + The Glow of Hot, Young Stars—ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, A. Hirschauer, M. Meixner Day 10 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : the glow of hot, young stars. The James We...
- + August Wilson’s Histories of Black American Life—The playwright August Wilson, who’s best known for his series chronicling 20th-century Black American life (colloquially known as the Century Cycle)...
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- + America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old—J uly 1977 : A 105-degree afternoon in Phoenix. I’m 17 and making deliveries in an underpowered Chevette with “4-55” air-conditioning (four open windo...
- + The Longevity Revolution—J uly 1977 : A 105-degree afternoon in Phoenix. I’m 17 and making deliveries in an underpowered Chevette with “4-55” air-conditioning (four open windo...
- + The Problem With the Government’s Pansexual Pride Day Post—The federal agency tasked with “improving the health, safety, and well-being of America” alerted its more than 2 million social-media followers to a l...
- + How Trump Can Win the Peace in Ukraine—A s President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to seek a negotiated settlement to the worst European war since 1945, he confronts in Russia a counterparty...
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- + How Trump Can Bring Putin to the Table—A s President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to seek a negotiated settlement to the worst European war since 1945, he confronts in Russia a counterparty...
- + Democrats’ Disastrous Misreading of Latino Public Opinion—The election of Donald Trump this year shattered a long-standing piece of conventional wisdom in American politics: that Latinos will vote overwhelmi...
- + An American-Style Housing Crisis in New Zealand—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Car-dependent suburban sprawl. Home prices and rents skyrocke...
- + How to Solve a Housing Crisis—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Car-dependent suburban sprawl. Home prices and rents skyrocke...
- + The Most Hyped Bot Since ChatGPT—For more than two years, every new AI announcement has lived in the shadow of ChatGPT. No model from any company has eclipsed or matched that initial ...
- + Three Ways to Understand Syria’s Future—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 rec...
- + Assad’s Opponents Are Building a New Order—A carnival of joy has erupted in Syria with the fall of the strongman Bashar al-Assad. Syrians have waited a long time and paid a heavy price for th...
- + The Bizarre Normalcy of Trump 2.0—A very strange disjuncture has opened up in Washington between the serene mood and the alarming developments that are under way. The surface is calm b...
- + A New Bracero Program Is Not the Solution—A few days before Thanksgiving, President-Elect Donald Trump pledged to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico unless the country halted the ...
- + A Dark and Dusty Galaxy—NASA, ESA, STScI, David Thilker Day 9 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a dark and dusty galaxy. This Hubble view of NGC 1546, a spi...
- + Biden’s Pardon Proves Trump Right—Last week, President Biden served up a Thanksgiving leftover that no one wanted: a “full and unconditional pardon” of his son Hunter. Among Democrats...
- + How Trump Could End the War in Ukraine—International affairs often present policy makers with a choice, not between good and bad options but between very bad and truly awful ones. The task ...
- + The End of a 13-Year Nightmare—Early yesterday morning, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for Russia. That was the wise choice, but unfortunate from the perspective of pol...
- + Top 25 News Photos of 2024—To receive an email when new photo galleries are published, sign up here . Near the end of every year, I look back through the many thousands of n...
- + Even the Koch Brothers Weren’t This Brazen—Marc Andreessen has been feeling pretty good since Election Day, and at the end of November, he went on The Joe Rogan Experience to say as much. Sit...
- + Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has some thoughts about Ozempic. According to the nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, the government sho...
- + The Carpetbagger Who Saw Texas’s Future—When Edna Ferber’s Giant was published in 1952, Texans were not pleased. Ferber’s sweeping novel about cattle, oil, and the winds of change brough...
- + The Diet Age Could Soon Be Over—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has some thoughts about Ozempic. According to the nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, the government sho...
- + The Atlantic ’s December Cover Story: Caitlin Flanagan on What the Poet Seamus Heaney Gave Her—For The Atlantic ’s January cover story, “ Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment ,” staff writer Caitlin Flanagan writes for the first time about ...
- + The ‘Girl-Novelist’ Who Messed With Texas—When Edna Ferber’s Giant was published in 1952, Texans were not pleased. Ferber’s sweeping novel about cattle, oil, and the winds of change brough...
- + Top 25 News Photos of 2024—Near the end of every year, I look back through the many thousands of news photos taken in the previous months, reevaluating them to see which images ...
- + Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment—Photo-illustrations by Sarah Palmer When my older sister, Ellen, was 4 or 5, she and a neighbor girl were playing in the front yard of our Berkele...
- + The 10 Best Movies of 2024—Editor’s Note: Find all of The Atlantic ’s “Best of 2024” coverage here . span[class*="EditorsNote_label__"] { display: none; } di...
- + Best of How To : The Infrastructure of Community—Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts This episode, from our fourth season, called How to Talk to...
- + How Russia Could Maintain a Foothold in Syria—The stunning downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaves not merely a vacuum of power in that country but a nearly endless list of unanswere...
- + When a Father Chooses His Politics Over His Family—This article contains spoilers for the film The Seed of the Sacred Fig . When the film The Seed of the Sacred Fig begins, an Iranian lawyer name...
- + The Surprising Comedy of a ‘Serious’ SNL Host—Paul Mescal isn’t known for being funny. In breakout dramatic turns such as 2020’s Normal People and 2022’s Aftersun , the Irish actor has cons...
- + A Mysterious Nebula—NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team Day 8 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a mysterious nebula. Details of a complex structure with...
- + Khamenei Loses Everything—When Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel on October 7, 2023, he intended to deal a decisive blow against a powerful n...
- + Photos: Syrians Celebrate the Fall of Assad—After a rapid advance by anti-government factions, led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, rebels in Syria declared today that they had taken control o...
- + Says the Wind—She’s got her eyes down. He’s got his head down as far as he can pull it into his scarf and burly coat. Their ...
- + The Syrian Regime Collapsed Gradually—And Then Suddenly—As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once. Th...
- + How to Marry Into Academia—L inda Troost and Sayre Greenfield met during the first week of graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Both were pursuing Ph.D.s ...
- + Why Voters Rejected Election Reform—This was supposed to be the year that political reform took off. A nearly $100 million campaign gave voters in seven states the opportunity to scrap p...
- + Five Stories About the Changing Landscape of Love—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 rec...
- + A Supernova Seen Thrice—NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Day 7 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a supernova seen thrice. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam vi...
- + Zamboni—Illustrations by Katherine Lam T he children don’t look real. It’s because of what they’re wearing—it’s the color of their clothes. None of the T-s...
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- + Dining Out Isn’t What It Used to Be—This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with deligh...
- + Hunter Biden Was Unfairly Prosecuted—Critics have argued that President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter was political nepotism—bad for the country, selfish, the height of privilege. ...
- + What Can DOGE Do?—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 rec...
- + A Glimpse at a Post-GPT Future—This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Si...
- + The GPT Era Is Already Ending—T his week, OpenAI launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman, called “the smartest model in the world”—a generative-AI program whose capabilities...
- + A Galactic Collision—ESA / Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA Day 6 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : a g...
- + The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State—The masked killer who targeted UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City on Wednesday is, after more than 48 hours, still on...
- + No One Has to Settle for Bad Pizza Anymore—This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. I n pizza heaven, it is always 950 degrees. The temp...
- + In Defense of Lists—This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. ’Tis the season for best-of list...
- + Photos of the Week: Santa Wink, Krampus Run, Panda Pose—Christmas decorations across Germany, lake-effect snowfall in Ohio, a festival of lights in France, a brief clash between soldiers and civilians in So...
- + It’s the Best Time in History to Be a Pizza Sicko—I n pizza heaven, it is always 950 degrees. The temperature required to make an authentic Neapolitan pizza is stupidly, unbelievably hot—more blast f...
- + The Movie That Mattered Most in 2024—This article contains spoilers for Blink Twice. In August, Zoë Kravitz released her directorial debut, a vivid, trippy, darkly funny horror film ...
- + The Folly of Ignoring Syria This Long—Until last week, Syria’s civil war was a classic example of a “frozen conflict”: A cease-fire in 2020 had stanched the fighting, but the sides had rea...
- + The Celebrity Machine Never Dies—In 2008, Robbert de Klerk, an attorney practicing family law in Los Angeles, was looking to change jobs when he learned of a tantalizing opportunity: ...
- + No, Trump Can’t Just ‘Dismiss’ the Senate—Donald Trump has not even returned to office, and already a constitutional crisis may be in the making. Trump has started announcing the people he int...
- + Fill the Swamp?—As the 2016 presidential election drew to an end, Donald Trump began using a new slogan: “Drain the swamp.” It was a neat encapsulation of his critiqu...
- + Murder Is an Awful Answer for Health-Care Anger—Updated at 10:58 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 5, 2024 Two very ugly, uniquely American things happened yesterday: A health-care executive was sho...
- + Murder is an Awful Answer for Health Care Anger—Two very ugly, uniquely American things happened yesterday: A health-care executive was shot dead, and because he was a health-care executive, people ...
- + How America Lost Its Taste for the Middle—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 rec...
- + Elon Musk Gets His Mini-Me at NASA—Yesterday, President-Elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a 41-year-old entrepreneur, private astronaut, and pilot, as the...
- + America’s Health-Care Fury Isn’t Going Away—Two very ugly, uniquely American things happened yesterday: A health-care executive was shot dead, and because he was a health-care executive, people ...
- + The Real Appeal of Raw Milk—Across the country, the thirst for an illicit beverage is growing. Raw milk can’t be sold legally for human consumption in many states, but some 11 mi...
- + The Allure of Smoking Rises Again—This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic ’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures...
- + Trump’s Fans Are Suffering From Tony Soprano Syndrome—In every Judge Joe Dredd story I’ve ever read, there is at least one almost comically obvious moment when the author makes clear that the protagonis...
- + How Fragile Is Our Vaccine Infrastructure?—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Anti-vaccine sentiment is, more or less, as old as vaccines. ...
- + Unburden Yourself of Secret Shame and Feel Happier—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. D o you have a deep, dark secret? Edg...
- + How to Shed a Guilty Secret—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. D o you have a deep, dark secret? Edg...
- + Victims of Violence Don’t Owe the Public Anything—For Edward Said, to be Palestinian was to be an exile. In 1979 he wrote, “Behind every Palestinian there is a great general fact: that he once—and not...
- + Day 5 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar—ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Misselt and A. Abergel Day 5 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : This image from the James Webb Space Telesc...
- + Winter Is Cooked—Bing Crosby’s performance of “White Christmas” has, in recent years, sounded to me like an elegy. Some people might still get white Christmases, but w...
- + The ‘Mainstream Media’ Has Already Lost—This October, in the closing days of the presidential election, the podcaster Joe Rogan said something extraordinary. He had just hosted Donald Trump...
- + Joe Rogan Is the Mainstream Media Now—This October, in the closing days of the presidential election, the podcaster Joe Rogan said something extraordinary. He had just hosted Donald Trump...
- + Putin Decides That Stalin’s Victims Were Guilty After All—Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government announced the “rescission” of a 1991 law officially rehabilitating past victims of political...
- + Bring Back the War Department—Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth to lead the Defense Department signals the incoming administration’s intention to enact significant changes a...
- + Trump’s Predatory Version of ‘America First’—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 rec...
- + The Sound of Fear on Air—This morning, I had an unsettling experience. I was invited onto MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk from a studio in Washington, D.C., about an article...
- + The American People Deserve DOGE—N o federal agency is as hated as the IRS, and perhaps no federal agency deserves so much hate. The average American spends 13 hours a year compl...
- + Any Parent Would Have Done the Same—Hunter Biden has lived a troubled life, and faced years in prison—until Sunday, when his father rescued him, issuing a full executive pardon clearin...
- + The Parent Trap—Hunter Biden has lived a troubled life, and faced years in prison—until Sunday, when his father rescued him, issuing a full executive pardon clearin...
- + Day 4 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar—NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon, M. H. Wong, J. DePasquale Day 4 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : A prominent string of alternating stor...
- + The Coming Democratic Revolution—Resistance is not futile, although it might seem that way at the moment. No major protests are set to descend on the National Mall. Legal challenges t...
- + RFK Jr. Is a Bellwether—R obert F. Kennedy Jr . is a tangle of biographical ironies. He is an anti-elite renegade bearing the most elite surname in politics. Once feared for ...
- + McNeal—Pavel Popov Foreword By Jeremy Strong In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world. Soon after, a software developer asked it to provid...
- + The Case Against Despair in Trump’s Second Term—When Donald Trump returns to the White House next year, American democracy won’t end. His power will be checked by Congress, the Supreme Court, the 50...
- + Bedbugs Could Be More Horrifying Than You Think—The second time I freaked out about bedbugs, my landlord suggested I might be overreacting, just a tad. My husband and I had fought back an infestatio...
- + America’s Lonely Future—In his first major address as president, Harry Truman urged Americans to use their enormous power “to serve and not to dominate.” The date was April...
- + Do Bedbugs Cause Disease?—The second time I freaked out about bedbugs, my landlord suggested I might be overreacting, just a tad. My husband and I had fought back an infestatio...
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- + The Rise of the Anti-Elite Elite—R obert F. Kennedy Jr . is a tangle of biographical ironies. He is an anti-elite renegade bearing the most elite surname in politics. Once feared for ...
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- + Behind the Brain Rot—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 rec...
- + South Korea’s Warning for Washington—A right-wing wannabe authoritarian president—a leader who attacks the press, is accused of abusing power for personal gain, uses his power to block in...
- + Trumpists Don’t Seem to Mind Claims of Sexual Assault—Donald Trump is most likely not trying to intentionally assemble a Cabinet chock-full of people accused either of sexual assault or of enabling it, bu...
- + Since the Election, I Fear Men—Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’...
- + The Slow, Quiet Demise of American Romance—After Donald Trump’s reelection, a lot of women were angry: at the result , at what Trump’s return to office could mean for their lives , and at t...
- + I Love Men. And I Fear Them.—Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’...
- + Musk and Ramaswamy Are Making a Big Mistake—A couple of weeks ago, my kitchen started to smell like sewage. The garbage disposal began to drip. The dishwasher wouldn’t drain. The toilet bubbled ...
- + Day 3 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar—ESA / Hubble & NASA, L. Kelsey Day 3 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : The Hubble Space Telescope brings us this nearly edge-on ...
- + RFK Jr. Is in the Wrong Agency—Leading the Department of Health and Human Services seems, at first glance, like a dream job for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quite possibly America’s most ...
- + The Next Abortion Battlefront—Abortion policy in America is at a stalemate. Republicans will take control of Congress in January, ready to block any national protections—but with a...
- + Why Syria Matters to the Kremlin—Rebel forces swept into Aleppo on Saturday, capturing the city center in a lightning three-day offensive that seemed to show the slackening of Mosco...
- + The End of American Romance—After Donald Trump’s reelection, a lot of women were angry: at the result , at what Trump’s return to office could mean for their lives , and at t...
- + Misogyny Comes Roaring Back—Throughout American political history, two capable, qualified, experienced women have run for president on a major-party ticket. Both have lost to Do...
- + How to End the War in Gaza—The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah brokered by President Joe Biden’s envoy Amos Hochstein is an important achievement. It reflects the lesson...
- + What Musk and Ramaswamy Don’t Get—A couple of weeks ago, my kitchen started to smell like sewage. The garbage disposal began to drip. The dishwasher wouldn’t drain. The toilet bubbled ...
- + The Gender War Is Here—Throughout American political history, two capable, qualified, experienced women have run for president on a major-party ticket. Both have lost to Do...
- + The Evidence on Policing and Crime—Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts The police murder of George Floyd in 2020 brought radical ide...
- + The Hunter Biden Pardon Is a Strategic Mistake—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 rec...
- + Day 2 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar—NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan, J. Green Day 2 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar : This image shows the center of the Serpens N...
- + The Fall of Aleppo Was Oddly Familiar—The fall of Aleppo this weekend surprised even the residents of Aleppo, so you can imagine how flabbergasted foreign analysts were, from thousands of ...
- + America Stopped Cooking With Tallow for a Reason—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest spin on MAGA, “Make frying oil tallow again,” is surprisingly straightforward for a man who has spent decades downplayi...
- + How to End the War In Gaza—The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah brokered by President Joe Biden’s envoy Amos Hochstein is an important achievement. It reflects the lesson...
- + A ‘Radical’ Approach to Reclaiming Your Attention—To enter the Strother School of Radical Attention, you have to walk through what has come to be known as “influencer alley.” Any time of day or night,...
- + Learning to Avoid My Phone at a $560 Attention Class—To enter the Strother School of Radical Attention, you have to walk through what has come to be known as “influencer alley.” Any time of day or night,...
- + A New Reckoning for Nuclear Energy—This spring kicked off the best stretch for America’s nuclear industry in decades. It started in April, when, for the first time since 1990 , the Uni...
- + Would You Pay $1,000 for a Family Photo?—Kirsten Bethmann started photographing families in 2005. She was living in the Outer Banks, in North Carolina, and found the era’s default aesthetic t...
- + Why They Lost—I n the past few days , four of the senior officials who directed Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign spoke with me about how the race unfolded, fro...
- + When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk—In the early months of 2023, the astronomer Željko Ivezić found himself taking part in a highly unusual negotiation. Ivezić is the 59-year-old directo...
- + The Christian Case for Happy Holidays —Toward the end of his second campaign for president, Donald Trump promised a weary nation one thing: “Merry Christmas” is coming back. “We’re going to...
- + The End of Democratic Delusions—The Roosevelt Republic —the progressive age that extended social welfare and equal rights to a widening circle of Americans—endured from the 1930s to ...
- + Best of How To : Rest—Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts This episode, from our fifth season, called How to Keep Time...
- + Biden’s Unpardonable Hypocrisy—When President Joe Biden was running for a second term as president, he repeatedly ruled out granting a pardon to his son Hunter, who has pleaded guil...
- + 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar—It’s time once more for one of my favorite holiday traditions: the 17th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar, featuring remarkable images from both ...
- + Castle Rose—Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos My friends all think their apartments used to be brothels. I don’t think any of them ever were, but it’s a ...
- + A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate—Updated at 10:17 a.m. ET on December 1, 2024 For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position...
- + It’s Never Too Late to Learn an Instrument—The recorder used to be an instrument people wanted to hear. As a 1946 article in The Atlantic explained , it gets mentioned lovingly in Shakespear...
- + The Great Grocery Squeeze—T he concept of the food desert has been around long enough that it feels almost like a fact of nature. Tens of millions of Americans live in low-i...
- + Six Stories on Love and Family—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 rec...
- + The Mystery of Food Deserts—T he concept of the food desert has been around long enough that it feels almost like a fact of nature. Tens of millions of Americans live in low-i...
- + Journalism’s What If Problem—When I was growing up in New York in the 1970s, the city was at its nadir—bankruptcy, burned-out buildings, rampant crime. I started in public school,...
- + The Kash Patel Principle—Trump has been releasing names of his nominees for the Cabinet and other senior posts in waves. He began with some relatively conventional choices, an...
- + The Future of the Executive Branch—Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday ...
- + How Humans Handle Housework—This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with deligh...
- + What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Military—I n 1783, George Washington faced a potential mutiny of the Army. Two years after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Congress still hadn’t paid Amer...
- + An Army Is a Dangerous Instrument to Play With—I n 1783, George Washington faced a potential mutiny of the Army. Two years after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Congress still hadn’t paid Amer...
- + How a Strongman Made Himself Look Weak—F or Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, strength is everything. At home, that means repressing minorities and co-opting the press. Abroad, it means...
- + How Biden Made a Mess of Ukraine—Joe Biden filled his administration with geniuses: Rhodes scholars; Ivy League graduates; people with extensive global experience; a national security...
- + What Breaking Up Google’s Search Monopoly Could Do to AI—This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Si...
- + Imagine a Drug That Feels Like Tylenol and Works Like OxyContin—Doctors have long taken for granted a devil’s bargain: Relieving intense pain, such as that caused by surgery and traumatic injury, risks inducing the...
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