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Hanna RosinThe Atlantic |
Twenty decks, seven swimming pools, and one novelist wearing a meatball T-shirt In January, the writer Gary Shteyngart spent a week of his life on the...
The case has one important advantage the others don’t. In the criminal case now unfolding in a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump is accused of...
Unless you know how to play the “Hermès Game” Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action lawsuit against the French luxury...
There’s so much more to experience. There are people who have organized their lives around the appearance of a total eclipse. They’re known as...
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 experiment....
Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation, makes the case against devices for children—even if they desperately want them. I did not know...
A Tennessee doctor explains how lifesaving decisions get made. And denied. Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the...
The Oscar-nominated Zone of Interest is the sound of annihilation. The Zone of Interest is a Holocaust movie that only ever lingers on one victim of...
A conversation with Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley's obsession with soft foods, its aversion to history, and the weirdest party she ever went to....
And lost our tolerance for everyday stress A few months ago, as I was absent-mindedly mending a pillow, I thought, I should quit therapy. Then I...
A new book explores deeply platonic friendships. A lot of the language we use to describe the crucial phases of friendship is borrowed from romantic...
The intellectual origins of the movement that self-described “techno-optimists” are advancing is dark—and deeply familiar. On the day that Elon...
The “Coward of Broward” reexamined Scot Peterson served for many years as a school resource officer in Broward County, Florida. His job was...
The invention that shaped our consumer appetites Once upon a time, a restless cashier would eye each and every item you, the consumer, purchased and...
Her path is narrow but real. On Monday, Iowa voters will choose their Republican nominee for president while the rest of us wait. Repeated polls have...
But here is why you think it is. The illusion persists, despite all evidence. Americans are pessimistic about the economic future. They feel worse off...
Sharing the first episode of the podcast How to Keep Time For the holidays, Radio Atlantic is sharing the first episode of the Atlantic podcast How...
Or at least read the tag We’re in the coldest season. We’re in the shopping season. We’re in the season of hygge. All the cues point to buying...
It’s surprisingly easy When my colleague Tom Nichols, who taught at the Naval War College for 25 years, warns people that Donald Trump might be a...
An unlikely alliance gets stronger. Donald Trump and American evangelicals have never been natural allies. Trump has owned casinos, flaunted...
Hint: It doesn’t involve the facts. I’ve heard of three Thanksgiving plans that got canceled because of disagreements over the Israel-Gaza War. In...
How our streaming lives are about to change If the recent Hollywood strike were a movie, it would have a satisfying ending. The Screen Actors Guild...
How one engineer in Gaza is trying to protect his family and his community at a time when water is running out. Numbers are one way to make the...
Jordan Peele and N. K. Jemisin on the subversive goals of Black horror in their new anthology, Out There Screaming. In the last scene of the classic...
A ground invasion seems all but certain—but then what? Just as there are stages of grief, there are stages of war. Not yet two weeks after Hamas’s...
An Israeli family’s encounter with Hamas The Israeli journalist Amir Tibon and his family were trapped inside a safe room in their house on the...
It’s not him. It’s us. Objectively speaking, President Joe Biden has presided over some significant, even historic, accomplishments: a massive...
The medical miracle could reverse our progress on accepting bodies of all sizes. The medical story about Ozempic is straightforward and satisfying. A...
When Jenisha Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, went home to Kentucky to interview her family, she was “looking to get rid of the shame.” She...
How do we overcome the awkwardness that keeps us from starting a conversation? Making small talk can be hard—especially when you’re not sure...
A new wave. A new variant. A new vaccine. Do we know COVID’s annual pattern yet? One thing we crave after our collective pandemic experience is...