- + A Before-and-After Moment in the Middle East—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 Did U.S. Planes Defend Israel But Not Ukraine?—On April 13, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched missiles and drones at Israel. Also on April 13, as well as on April 12, 14, and 15, the Russian Fe...
- + Why Republicans Are Defending Israel and Ignoring Ukraine—On April 13, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched missiles and drones at Israel. Also on April 13, as well as on April 12, 14, and 15, the Russian Fe...
- + Is This the End for Bluey ?—This article contains spoilers for the Bluey episode “The Sign.” A few weeks ago, I found myself, fairly late at night, Googling Is Bandit H...
- + Trump’s Willing Accomplice—Y esterday , ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos conducted a skillful and revealing interview with New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. Over nine damni...
- + Scenes From Coachella 2024—Crowds of music fans gathered once more in Indio, California, this weekend for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, catching performances by ...
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- + What Happens When You’ve Been on Ozempic for 20 Years?—In December 1921, Leonard Thompson was admitted to Toronto General Hospital so weak and emaciated that his father had to carry him inside. Thompson wa...
- + The Most Hated Sound on Television—When American viewers flipped open the July 2, 1966, edition of TV Guide , they were treated to a bombshell story . This was the first installment o...
- + Trump’s Presidential-Immunity Theory Is a Threat to the Chain of Command—Next Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s lawyers will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that he is immune to all criminal charges against him ...
- + Prestige TV’s New Wave of Difficult Men—The horror of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, to me, isn’t that he’s a killer, or an aspirant, or even a literary version of the parasitic wasp that ...
- + ‘Nostalgia for a Dating Experience They’ve Never Had’—Say you’re in a bar. You see someone across the room who looks appealing. But do they think the same of you? You don’t want to stare for too long, so ...
- + The Myth of the Mobile Millionaire—In 2010, as California was moving forward with plans to raise taxes sharply on million-dollar earners, opponents issued dire warnings that the hike w...
- + The Man Who Died for the Liberal Arts—Photo-illustrations by Gabriela Pesqueira C hugging through Pacific waters in February 1942, the USS Crescent City was ferrying construction equipm...
- + Gavin Newsom Can’t Help Himself—“W e don’t need magazine profiles,” California Governor Gavin Newsom told me. “We don’t need any problems.” We were sitting on opposing couches in h...
- + A Test of Strength—Israel stopped an Iranian drone and missile barrage last night, with help from the United States Navy, Britain’s Royal Air Force, and Israel’s Arab al...
- + Ken Will Never Die—Before Ryan Gosling played Ken in Barbie , he had a varied career. He was the romantic heart of The Notebook , the moody center of Drive , the slap...
- + The Coalition of the Malevolent—My wife the photo archivist likes to point out that all stills are a double crop—a crop in time (we do not know what happened before or after) and a c...
- + What Will Netanyahu Do Now?—On April 1, Israel killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, by attacking Iran’s consulate in Damascus....
- + Ordinary Iranians Don’t Want a War With Israel—Updated 11:29 a.m., April 14, 2024 The moment we were all afraid of finally arrived yesterday evening. For me, it was announced by a phone call fro...
- + Is Texas About to Turn Latinos Into Single-Issue Voters?—I n the days after the November election in 2020, I traveled from Laredo, Texas, down along the Rio Grande into one of the great heartlands of Mexi...
- + What Rereading a Book Can Reveal—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...
- + Ponies—For James Wright There were three, a marmalade of ponies, just in the field, feeding on grass— one roan, one buckskin, and a chestnut. I put m...
- + What the Upper-Middle-Class Left Doesn’t Get About Inflation—Democratic Party analysts and left-leaning economists have had quite enough of their fellow Americans’ complaints. As a striking number of poll respo...
- + Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls—How many times has it happened? You’re on your computer, searching for a particular article, a hard-to-find fact, or a story you vaguely remember, and...
- + The O.J. Verdict Reconsidered—When the O. J. Simpson verdict was announced, I was a junior at Michigan State University. At the time, I was the managing editor of my college newspa...
- + The Future of Chocolate—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...
- + Women’s College Basketball Is a Worthy Investment—The NCAA women’s-basketball season officially concluded a banner season on Sunday with breathless drama, even though it wasn’t a surprise ending. In ...
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- + The Worst Day of My Life Was the Day I Learned to Read—Editor’s note: The seventh annual Hitchens Prize was awarded to the filmmaker Errol Morris at a dinner on April 10 in New York City. The award is g...
- + ‘We Left the Girls Too Long in That Place’—When I first interviewed Yama Bullum and his wife, Falmata, in 2015, they were desperate for the safe return of their daughter Jinkai, who was one of...
- + The Unrelenting Shame of the Dentist—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 Golden Age of Dictation—This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine ag...
- + Chocolate Might Never Be the Same—Good chocolate, I’ve come to learn, should taste richly of cocoa—a balanced blend of bitter and sweet, with notes of fruit, nuts, and spice. My favori...
- + The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages—Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and...
- + An Oblique and Beautiful Book—This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Until last fall, I had never heard ...
- + The Country That Tried to Control Sex—When the cultural historian Clair Wills was in graduate school at Oxford in the late 1980s, she became pregnant by accident. She was 25 and single, wi...
- + An Entrancing Fairy Tale About Italian Grave Robbers—La Chimera confirms a stereotypical suspicion I’ve had about life in Italy: You’re only a couple of costume changes away from joining a circus troupe...
- + A Home for Kidnappers and Their Victims—When I first interviewed Yama Bullum and his wife, Falmata, in 2015, they were desperate for the safe return of their daughter Jinkai, who was one of...
- + The Truth About Organic Milk—Photographs by Justin Maxon for The Atlantic This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . T...
- + Tupperware Is in Trouble—For the first several decades of my life, most of the meals I ate involved at least one piece of Tupperware. My mom’s pieces were mostly the greens an...
- + Trump Has Transformed the GOP All the Way Down—S alleigh Grubbs was in her office on Friday, November 20, 2020, when she got a phone call from a friend. Susan’s at Jim Miller Park—they’re shred...
- + Iran’s Deadly Message to Journalists Abroad—On March 29, a friend of mine, the Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati, was crossing the road outside his Wimbledon home in southwestern London, to get ...
- + The Homepage of the Black Internet—Illustrations by Frank Dorrey A few years ago, Stephanie Williams and her husband fielded a question from their son: How had they met? So they to...
- + Britain Is Leaving the U.S. Gender-Medicine Debate Behind—In a world without partisan politics, the Cass report on youth gender medicine would prompt serious reflection from American trans-rights activists, t...
- + Where the Future of Abortion Access Lies—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...
- + Maine Is a Warning for America’s PFAS Future—Cordelia Saunders remembers 2021, the year she and her husband, Nathan, found out that they’d likely been drinking tainted water for more than 30 year...
- + Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility—What happens when a smart TV becomes too smart for its own good? The answer, it seems, is more intrusive advertisements. Last week, Janko Roettgers...
- + Six Cult Classics You Have to Read—A book that earns the title of “cult classic” is one that combines two seemingly contradictory qualities: It has a passionate following of people who ...
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- + What the Perma-bears Get Wrong About the Stock Market—War in the Middle East. War in Ukraine. Rising oil prices. Inflation still hovering above 3 percent , and mortgage rates above 6 percent. The possibl...
- + A Child’s-Eye View of 1970s Debauchery—T he Australian author Helen Garner’s first novel, Monkey Grip , published in 1977, and her third, Children’s Bach , published in 1984—both rec...
- + Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. I n the world of popular psychology, t...
- + Money Can Buy You Everything, Except Maybe a Birkin Bag—Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action lawsuit against the French luxury design company Hermès . Their grievance was that a...
- + Larry David Learned Nothing, and Neither Did We—On a recent flight from Auckland to Sydney, an unruly man reportedly urinated into a cup while sitting at his seat, much to the horror of his fellow...
- + Matt Gaetz Is Winning—This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . U sually, you need about 10 minutes to walk from t...
- + Why Tax Filing Is Such a Headache—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 Wasteland Is Waiting for You—The first Fallout game was released in 1997. I was (and am) an avid gamer, and when I played the inaugural entry in what would become a decades-long...
- + America Is Sick of Swiping—Modern dating can be severed into two eras: before the swipe, and after. When Tinder and other dating apps took off in the early 2010s, they unleashed...
- + The Crumbleys Are Being Scapegoated for America’s Gun Failures—Yesterday, a Michigan judge sentenced James and Jennifer Crumbley to 10 to 15 years in prison for failing to stop their son Ethan from murdering four ...
- + The 67-Hour Rule—This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here . One of t...
- + Israeli Rage Reaches New Levels—This weekend, Israel withdrew all but one of its brigades of ground forces from Gaza. Israel announced that the withdrawal was happening but did not...
- + Arms Are Flying Off Their Hinges—T he ulnar collateral ligament , or UCL, is a triangular set of bundles in the human elbow that looks like three crisscrossing strips of bacon—a marve...
- + What I’ve Heard From Gaza—For the first time in more than a month, I recently had the chance to talk with my 11-year-old niece, who is sheltering with my surviving family memb...
- + In MAGA World, Everything Happens for a Reason—Sign up for The Decision , a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. On March 26, in the middle of the night, an enormous container s...
- + A Rom-Com You Might Have Written—As far back as 1953’s Roman Holiday , when Audrey Hepburn played a princess who falls for a reporter, Hollywood has drawn on the formula of an asymme...
- + The Sober-Curious Movement Has Reached an Impasse—At Hopscotch, Daryl Collins’s bottle shop in Baltimore, he happily sells wine to 18-year-olds. If a customer isn’t sure what variety they like (and wh...
- + When You Regret Starting a Rap Beef—In what is currently the most popular song in the United States, Kendrick Lamar explains how he defines success. “Money, power, respect—the last one i...
- + Welcome to Kidulthood—This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . Stuffed animals have often been deemed one of the q...
- + Clash of the Patriarchs—Photo-illustrations by Cristiana Couceiro In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to...
- + The War Is Not Going Well for Ukraine—Kyiv is, as ever, a lovely city, made more so by a brisk, sunny April. The church domes gleam, the cafés are open if not bustling, the streets are swe...
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- + The Logical End Point of College Sports—Cade Haskins averaged just 0.9 points a game this season for one of the worst teams in all of Division I college basketball. And yet he may turn out ...
- + You Don’t Have to Type Anymore—As a little girl, I often found myself in my family’s basement, doing battle with a dragon. I wasn’t gaming or playing pretend: My dragon was a piec...
- + Do We Really Want a Food Cartel?—The Federal Trade Commission has just released its long-anticipated report on the major disruptions to America’s grocery-supply chain during the co...
- + Trump’s Shoot-the-Moon Legal Strategy—With less than a week to go before the start of his trial in New York on falsifying records, former President Donald Trump has sued Juan Merchan, the ...
- + The Alluring Mystique of Candy Darling—About midway through the movie Klute , as Jane Fonda, playing a young woman named Bree Daniels, mazes through a sweat-soaked club, the actor Candy Da...
- + Our Last Great Adventure—O ne summer morning, seven months after he had turned 80, my husband, Dick Goodwin, came down the stairs, clumps of shaving cream on his earlobes, si...
- + The Tough Sell of the Third-Party Candidate—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...
- + You Don't Have to Type Anymore—As a little girl, I often found myself in my family’s basement, doing battle with a dragon. I wasn’t gaming or playing pretend: My dragon was a piec...
- + So You Looked Directly Into the Sun—This afternoon, as the moon’s shadow slanted across the United States of America, millions upon millions of people within the centermost line of its p...
- + So Much for the Apocalypse—Well, you have to hand it to them. Few constituencies are so ostentatiously and consistently wrong, over so many generations of human history, as the ...
- + You No Longer Have to Type Anymore—As a little girl, I often found myself in my family’s basement, doing battle with a dragon. I wasn’t gaming or playing pretend: My dragon was a piec...
- + The Web Became a Strip Mall—One morning in 1999, while I sat at the office computer where I built corporate websites, a story popped up on Yahoo. An internet domain name, Busines...
- + The RFK-Curious Women of Bucks County—E verybody loves Lynne . At least, that’s what all of her friends kept telling me last week, as they filed through Lynne’s front door in the Philadelp...
- + Almost No One Is Happy With Legal Weed—The legalization of cannabis in the United States—the biggest change in policy for an illegal substance since Prohibition ended—has been an unqualifie...
- + The Atlantic ’s May Cover Story: Stephanie McCrummen on the “Great Serengeti Land Grab”—For The Atlantic ’s May cover story, “ The Great Serengeti Land Grab ,” staff writer Stephanie McCrummen reports from Tanzania on how Gulf princes, w...
- + Totality Is Worth It—Like migratory birds guided by the stars, hundreds of thousands of Americans have flocked in the direction of today’s total solar eclipse. They have s...
- + Civil War Was Made in Anger—When the first trailer for Alex Garland’s new movie, Civil War —a harrowing depiction of conflict between American states in the near future—was re...
- + ‘This Will Finish Us’—Photographs by Nichole Sobecki This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . I t was high saf...
- + Half Moon, Small Cloud—Illustrations by Miki Lowe Today, the moon will pass directly in front of the sun, casting a shadow on Earth—and on us, eager onlookers ready with o...
- + The Extreme Absurdity of the SNL ‘Secretaries’ Sketch—Often when a former cast member returns to host Saturday Night Live , they trot out their greatest hits. And, sure, when Kristen Wiig took the stage ...
- + Time Is Running Out for Ukraine—In early March 2022, I spent two weeks hiding in a basement in my village near Kyiv as Russian soldiers prowled outside. In the months that followed, ...
- + What Neuralink Is Missing—Until recently, in all of human history, the number of true cyborgs stood at about 70. Ian Burkhart has kept a count because he was one of them—a pers...
- + The ‘American Tolstoy’ of TV Shows—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 Government Isn’t Ready for the Violence Trump Might Unleash—No one in law enforcement should be caught off guard if trouble breaks out before, during, or after the November presidential election, because Donald...
- + The Future of the U.S.-Israel Relationship—Editor’s Note: Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday...
- + Into the Unknown—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...
- + Drones Could Unite Ranchers and Conservationists—This article was originally published by High Country News . In the summer of 2022, several researchers with USDA Wildlife Services held their b...
- + The Rock Never Blinks—The opening months of 2024 have posed a question: How many different people can the Rock be at once? There he goes, taking the stage at the Oscars, gr...
- + Why Beyoncé Keeps Reinventing Herself—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...
- + Did You Feel That?—In the decade I have lived in California, I’ve learned to be on edge for “The Big One” —an earthquake so powerful, it can bring down houses. The roug...
- + What Is AI Without Its Capacity for Delight?—This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine ag...
- + The United States and Israel Are Coming Apart—A rift has opened between Israel and the United States. No breach between the two countries has been as wide or as deep since the mid-1950s, when the ...
- + A Brilliantly Brutal Dev Patel—As an actor, Dev Patel has tended to play bighearted softies in rousing crowd-pleasers. Though he’s occasionally ventured beyond such territory—see hi...
- + Feminism, Womanhood, and Celebrity—This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, Sophie Gilbert, a staff ...
- + Why a Cognitive Scientist Put a Head Cam on His Baby—When Luna was seven months old, she began wearing, at the behest of her scientist father, a hot-pink helmet topped with a camera that would, for about...
- + How Trump Is Dividing Minority Voters—The most succinct explanation for how Republicans expect Donald Trump to win in November may have come from, of all people, the firebrand Representati...
- + What Orwell Really Feared—The Isle of Jura is a patchwork of bogs and moorland laid across a quartzite slab in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Nearly 400 miles from London, rain-la...
- + Is Theo Von the Next Joe Rogan?—S omeone is talking to you. Or is he talking to himself ? A deep, spacey voice with pondering pauses and a resinous Louisiana accent. “There’s this t...
- + Photos of the Week: Solar Oasis, Leaf Spirit, Burning Judas—The World Coal Carrying Championships in England, damage from an earthquake in Taiwan, a destroyed hospital in the Gaza Strip, a beekeeper at work in ...
- + Don’t Let Trump Exhaust You—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 Vision of the City as a Live Organism—Imagine a city of staggering, sometimes menacing beauty. Its history is bloody, but it carries on, becoming more mesmerizingly strange with each era. ...
- + Solar Eclipses Are Always With Us—This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic ’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures...
- + AI Has Lost Its Magic—I frequently ask ChatGPT to write poems in the style of the American modernist poet Hart Crane. It does an admirable job of delivering. But the other ...
- + A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Classical Music for 200 Years—In the spring of 1825, Ludwig van Beethoven was struck by a gut ailment so severe that he thought he might die. That summer, after he recovered, he re...
- + An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America—R age is the subject of a new book by the political scientist Tom Schaller and the journalist Paul Waldman. White Rural Rage , specifically. In 255 ...
- + The Trump Two-Step—Is Donald Trump that clever, or are the media still just that unprepared ? Whatever the reason, he continues to be just as adept as ever at running c...
- + Do Voters Care About Policy Even a Little?—Suppose the president asked you to design the ideal piece of legislation—the perfect mix of good politics and good policy. You’d probably want to pic...
- + Joe Biden Tried Popularism, and It Doesn’t Seem Very Popular—Suppose the president asked you to design the ideal piece of legislation—the perfect mix of good politics and good policy. You’d probably want to pic...
- + The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. W hen one of my now-adult kids was in ...
- + The Great Democratic Success Story That Wasn’t—The Obama administration seemed to take special pride in its policy toward Myanmar. American statecraft had coaxed the country’s reclusive military di...
- + Joe Biden’s Drug-Price Conundrum—Suppose the president asked you to design the ideal piece of legislation—the perfect mix of good politics and good policy. You’d probably want to pic...
- + Why You Should Stop Worrying About Your Parenting—Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. W hen one of my now-adult kids was in ...
- + Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever—Photographs by Gary Shteyngart Day 1 MY FIRST GLIMPSE of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, from the window of an approaching Miami cab, brings ...
- + During the Eclipse, Don’t Just Look Up—There are people who have organized their lives around the appearance of a total eclipse. They’re known as eclipse chasers, or more obscurely, “umbrap...
- + A Great Day for The Atlantic —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 Atlantic ’s 2024 National Magazine Award Winners and Finalists—For the third consecutive year, The Atlantic has won the top honor of General Excellence for a News, Sports, and Entertainment publication at the 20...
- + Seven Books to Read in the Sunshine—As spring takes hold, the days arrive with a freshness that makes people want to linger outside; the balmy days almost feel wasted indoors. While you’...
- + There Is More Good Than Evil in This Country—W hen Upton Sinclair published his novel The Jungle , the reaction was different from what he’d imagined. He had hoped to expose the deplorable work...
- + The Coming Birth-Control Revolution—This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . Within the next couple of decades, a new generation...
- + If Teenage Girls Ran America—Early in the new documentary Girls State , one of the participants in the titular leadership program for high schoolers chuckles after learning the c...
- + The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust—This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. As an agnostic,...
- + Helen of Troy Meets Her First Husband—as in the dampest part of winter, when rain flushes down from a sky with spring growing in its eye like a cataract not...
- + What Americans Lost When They Stopped Going to Church—This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. As an agnostic,...
- + A Study in Senate Cowardice—In late June of 2022, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump-administration aide, provided testimony to the congressional committee investigating the Jan...
- + The Atlantic Wins Top Honor for Third Straight Year at 2024 National Magazine Awards—For the third consecutive year, The Atlantic was awarded the top honor of General Excellence for a News, Sports, and Entertainment publication at th...
- + The Big Money of College Basketball—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 Tour Through Solar Eclipses of the Past—As much of North America prepares for the upcoming total solar eclipse next week, I thought it would be fun to share some images from the recent (and ...
- + A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change—Around the year 1300, the Huhugam great chief Siwani ruled over a mighty city near what is now Phoenix, Arizona. His domain included adobe-and-stone p...
- + A Deadly Strike in Gaza—Seven people working for a humanitarian aid group led by the chef José Andrés were killed in an Israeli air strike in the central Gaza Strip today. Th...
- + This Is What an Album Needs to Do Right Now—Like many of us, Beyoncé is thinking about the end of the United States. Her new album, Cowboy Carter , opens with an extraordinary track called “Ame...
- + This Whale Has Something to Say—Remember the orca revolt? Late last spring, media outlets began reporting that a group of orca whales were ramming seacraft near the Strait of Gibralt...
- + Why Rich Shoppers Get So Angry About Hermès—Should you want to own an Hermès Birkin handbag, there are two main reasons that’s probably not in the cards. The first limiting factor is that even i...
- + What the Suburb Haters Don’t Understand—This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . If you listen to the experts, much of the place I’m...
- + What’s So Bad About Asking Where Humans Came From?—Here is an origin story about origin stories. Once upon a time, we knew where we came from: Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Fall. Then came mod...
- + Supporting Trump Means Supporting a Culture of Violence—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 Doctor Will Ask About Your Gun Now—A man comes to Northwell Health’s hospital on Staten Island with a sprained ankle. Any allergies? the doctor asks. How many alcoholic drinks do you...
- + The Most Dazzling Eclipse in the Universe—Eclipses are not particularly rare in the universe. One occurs every time a planet, its orbiting moon, and its sun line up. Nearly every planet has a ...
- + The Fans Aren’t Always Right—There’s something comfortingly irrelevant about Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire . The fifth film in the Ghostbusters franchise came out last weekend to...
- + Beyoncé Stands Her Ground—The power of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is that Dolly Parton sounds powerless. The guitar riff prickles nervously; the melody pleads in the manner of a h...
- + What Would Society Look Like if Extreme Wealth Were Impossible?—Last month, 93-year-old Ruth Gottesman, a former professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the widow of financier David Gottesman, anno...
- + Ro Khanna Wants to Be the Future of the Democratic Party—Photographs by John Trotter I n January, as the 2024 primary season got under way, Representative Ro Khanna stood in the middle of a spacious New H...
- + A Saturday Night Live Monologue That Felt More Like Prayer—Ramy Youssef has spent much of his career mining heartfelt humor from experiences that straddle the sacred and the profane . So it was no surprise th...
- + The Clock Is Running Out on Migratory Birds—This article was originally published by High Country News . At a glance, the male western tanager looks like a little flame, its ruby head blen...
- + An Unconventional Spy Show—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 State That’s Trying to Rein in DEI Without Becoming Florida—Roughly a decade after the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, began to spread in American higher education, a political backlash i...
- + Drift of Summer, 1965—This poem is in conversation with Agnes Martin’s work of the same title. San Francisco Chronicle / Hearst Newspapers / Getty Images [Author: Victor...
- + The State of the Biden-Trump Rematch—Editor’s Note: Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday o...
- + What Restaurant Behavior Says About a Person—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...
- + Colleges Are Facing an Enrollment Nightmare—For years, Senator Lamar Alexander was known for theatrically unfurling a paper document so long that he could hold it above his head and still see i...
- + Everything You Know About Killer Whales Is Wrong—This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine . John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the D...
- + How AI Is Reshaping Foreign-Language Education—This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine ag...
- + That’s Enough of the MonsterVerse—There is rarely a good time for Godzilla to show up, but the MonsterVerse version of him could not have picked a worse moment to rampage again. Godzi...
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