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Culture and entertainment musts from Caroline Mimbs Nyce This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...
A poem for Sunday 1. I’m tapering the doctor says–– It might feel like you can hear your eyes moving–– space racing from the back of your...
Western leaders do themselves no good when they avoid confronting the awfulness of war. In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part II, the Earl of Warwick...
“It’s extraordinary how much politics have been warped in the Trump era.” This week, a range of political headlines continue to raise questions...
One thing you quickly learn when speaking with a child: They’re natural philosophers. This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in...
Cosmic metals could fuel the clean-energy transition on Earth. This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. In April 2023, a satellite...
What’s left when your kid abandons your dreams and retires from competition? A true sports parent dies twice. There’s the death that awaits us all...
A well-intentioned bill making its way through Congress could chill speech at colleges across the country. The House of Representatives passed the...
I will never owe another cat the debt that I owe her. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...
ElevenLabs is ushering in a new era of deepfake audio. This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your...
Meghan O’Rourke recommends her favorite books about sickness and health. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to...
It was something sadder, uglier, and—for many people who have lived in some way in the shadow of sexual violence—more familiar. One evening in...
Teen fashion used to be distinct. But the line separating it from adult style has blurred. For high schoolers across America, prom season means...
A free charging adapter can help alleviate one of the biggest problems holding back EVs. Take a road trip in an electric car, and you’ll quickly...
The vehicles are being adopted fastest in blue-leaning major metropolitan areas. Dozens of used electric-vehicle batteries were stacked like...
Moderate sun exposure can be good for you. Why won’t American experts acknowledge that? Listen to this article 00:00 14:49 Listen to more stories...
The author’s midlife-crisis novel is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy. Back when the word weird (or, in the spelling of the day, wyrd )...
Modi rose from a level playing field that no longer exists. On March 21, a little less than a month before India’s national elections, the main...
Eylon Levy’s chaotic rise and sudden fall The job of international spokesperson for Israel, in a state of war, is fit for a patriot, a masochist, or...
Mass demonstrations are becoming more frequent but less effective. The country is stuck in a protest feedback loop. In recent months, students...
Photos of the Week: Grim Reaper, Wicker Man, Met Gala Alan Taylor 6:00 AM ET 35 Photos In Focus The ruins of a mountain monastery in Turkey,...
We evolved to form snap judgments about who’s friend and who’s foe, but we need to be more evolved now. Want to stay current with Arthur’s...
The former president’s shakedown of oil executives may not have been illegal, but it is undeniably scandalous. One of the few ways in which...
The promises and perils of AI voice software Recently my colleague Charlie Warzel, who covers technology, introduced me to the most sophisticated...
Presidents have surprisingly little influence over the economy—except in a single, vital respect: their agencies that issue regulations. Late...
Fifty years ago, the architect Peter Blake questioned everything he thought he knew about modern building. This is an edition of Time-Travel...
Most nonfiction isn’t fact-checked. The Kristi Noem saga could change that—but it probably won’t. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a...
You just don’t see foam collars anymore. It used to be that whenever someone on TV or in a movie fell off the roof or had a skiing mishap or got...
Adobe’s app was once synonymous with fake images online. Then came generative AI. In 2017, Rihanna posted a photo of herself on Instagram in which...
A conversation with David A. Graham about the bizarre nature of the former president’s criminal trial This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a...
What was the company thinking? Here is a nonexhaustive list of objects Apple recently pulverized with a menacing hydraulic crusher: a trumpet, a...
A scientific inquiry Earlier today, The New York Times broke some startling news about a presidential candidate. According to a 2012 deposition,...
Universities are experiencing goal ambiguity at a time when certainty is most necessary. This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work,...
Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Sign up for...
Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. When Nan Goldin danced in low-life go-go bars in Paterson, N.J., I was a girl in...
Trump would reenter office with broad authority to restrict abortion access. The only question is how much of it he’d use. Donald Trump has been...
The online subculture where everything is about sex. The internet may be, as the 2003 musical Avenue Q put it, constructed for pornography, but the...
America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early...
A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause as so...
Where everything and nothing is at stake They appear every spring, like crocuses or robins or perhaps black flies: commencement addresses....
Lawmakers have argued that the Chinese internet is better for kids. They’re wrong. Over the past week, I’ve spent several hours scrolling...
Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, American Gothic, was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell. I am the granddaughter...
Photos: Deadly Flooding in Southern Brazil Alan Taylor 1:45 PM ET 25 Photos In Focus For more than a week now, torrential rainfall in Brazil’s...
The feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar has become far, far bigger than music alone. Scapegoating is one of humankind’s primal rituals, dating...
To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes felt like he was the last honest musician in the industry. Nearly 20 years ago, my high-school calculus...
You would think that three decades’ worth of evidence would put an end to giving taxpayer money to wealthy sports owners. Unfortunately, you would...
It’s not that Trump bore any malice toward Daniels; it’s that she mattered to him only as a vehicle to sex. Donald Trump has often loved to talk...
Four things to understand about the ongoing negotiations This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...