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The war Israel is actually fighting isn’t one the United States can defend. “This is our 9/11,” an Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson said a...
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We use them most in bureaucratic contexts, but they’re more than mere legalese. In 2011, demographic researchers across America realized...
Does the patron saint of political violence have anything to teach us today? Some ideas exist so far beyond one’s own moral boundaries that to...
Breadfruit is a staple in tropical places—and climate change is pushing its range north. Someplace in the lush backroads of San Sebastián, in...
Sometimes, going viral isn’t as great as it seems. Lucchese is not the world’s cutest dog. Picked up as a stray somewhere in Texas, he is scruffy...
How the ex-president’s social-media platform became the new Bed Bath & Beyond After the stock-market frenzy that ensued when Trump Media &...
Who asked for seltzer with ashwagandha? Recently, a balmy spring day left me feeling parched. I needed a beverage—stat!—and had forgotten my...
Who was “Atlanticus,” the writer who foreshadowed the Titanic disaster? This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The...
We visit a rally in Dayton, Ohio, to find out. Recently the Atlantic political reporter John Hendrickson and I set out on a kind of social...
How Rahim Fortune depicts the beauty of a place and its people C ontemporary rural places are rendered all but invisible in the American public...
A serious policy debate with the late Joe Lieberman could veer sharply into a one-man Borscht Belt-on-the-Potomac. Say what you will about Joe...
The crypto mogul, now sentenced to 25 years behind bars, is leaving behind an industry that has started to grow up. If there’s a single image...
A conversation with Yasmin Tayag about rising pollen counts and the allergy apocalypse This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that...
One man’s ambition has undermined Israel’s security and consumed its politics. If Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted defeat in June 2021, finally...
In Lisa Ko’s ambitious, messy novel, characters disappear, sell out, and opt out, all in search of a meaningful existence. From the very start,...
Shohei Ohtani and the future of sports betting This week, the pro baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani addressed the media for the first time since his...
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s intimate, intergenerational portraits The steel industry was already collapsing by the time the photographer and visual...
The outsider candidate has money, a running mate, and a growing army of supporters determined to upend the election. Wasn’t Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
The late psychologist gave the world an extraordinary gift: admitting his mistakes. I first met Daniel Kahneman about 25 years ago. I’d applied...
Your repeated attraction to a certain “type” may be down more to psychological comfort than to a mysterious connection. Cool-but-not-too-cool...
I didn’t know that college would be a factory of unreason. O ne of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes...
Looking out from the harbor used to be an exercise in optimism. You could see the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Fort McHenry, the pentagon-shaped...
Winners of the 2024 World Nature Photography Awards Alan Taylor 12:45 PM ET 16 Photos In Focus The winning images and photographers of this...
Authorities suddenly need answers to questions that few people were contemplating last night. The rapid collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in...
Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language. A few days ago, I watched a video of myself talking in perfect Chinese....
No good legal reason exists to delay Donald Trump’s January 6 trial any further. Donald Trump is determined to avoid accountability before the...
New obesity drugs are remarkable. But few people realize how useful the old ones can be. “In my lifetime, I never dreamed that we would be...
A group that formed during the pandemic to counter medical lies found that every lever they pulled on failed to produce the results they were...
Vinson Cunningham’s new novel takes the reader back to a time when many thought the nation’s first Black president had an answer for every...
A New York appeals court threw him a lifeline—but the road ahead is long. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you...
Expect wild claims from supporters of the humiliated dictator. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the...
Hiring Ronna McDaniel as a contributor angered the network’s contributors, staff, and audience—and with seemingly no upside. An old journalism...
The former president got his latest reprieve when a court reduced the $464 million bond in his fraud case. Donald Trump loves the musical Cats ,...
The legendary record producer believes everyone is an artist—and he has a plan for unlocking your potential. The Rick Rubin method: It’s not...
What do I owe them if they caused me pain growing up? Dear Therapist, I’m an eldest daughter in my late 20s, and when I was a teenager, my...
A short story After their second week of volunteer farmwork, Gabriel and Caro subjected themselves to a twin ordeal: lunch with her parents on...
In a new book, the influential theorist tries to indict gender-critical feminists. Judith Butler, for many years a professor of rhetoric and...
Holi 2024: The Festival of Colors Alan Taylor 1:31 PM ET 21 Photos In Focus This week, Hindus around the world are celebrating Holi, the “festival...
What I learned surfing an emulation of the mid-’90s web “Was the internet really this bad?” I wondered to myself as I read the September 1995...