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What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?

Most of Trump’s health picks are uninterested in using most of the tools that can limit the spread of infectious disease.

Should I Leave My American Partner?

I love him, but I don’t know if I can live in the U.S. forever.

Shipwrecked in the Amazon

Photographs of the worst drought in the river basin’s recorded history

The Cruel Attack on USAID

Trump’s assault on the aid agency poses a haunting question.

DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms

The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run.

Blame Gerald Ford for Trump’s Unaccountability

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidenti...

Is Trump Ready for Bird Flu?

Most of his health picks are uninterested in using most of the tools that can limit the spread of infectious disease.

The Paradox of Music Discovery, the Spotify Way

A new book explores the company’s commitment to shaping what its users hear.

Slashing Science Funding Is the Opposite of Effici...

The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run.

Is This What Cancel Culture Achieved?

Ye called himself a Nazi. That wasn’t the worst story on social media this weekend.

Gerald Ford’s Unlikely Role in the Imperial Presid...

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidenti...

The Great Political Sort Is Happening At the Offic...

Social Workers Are Democrats. Real Estate Brokers Are Republicans. What Does Your Job Say About Your Politics?

The Era of Risk-Averse Super Bowl Ads

For a short time, brands embraced political marketing. That trend is fading.

It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans

Welcome to the end of the human civil servant.

A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities

The ivory tower has been breached.

Why Is the Trump Administration Deleting a Paper o...

Science and health are under assault.

Why Is Trump Deleting a Paper on Suicide Risk?

Science and health are under assault.

Samizdat for Science

Health and science data are being deleted by the Trump administration.  

The Outsider Who Captured American Loneliness

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts

Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.

A Finnish Writer’s Portrait of American Loneliness...

Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel about American retirees.

<em>The Atlantic</em>’s March Cover Story: Yoni Ap...

The idea that people should be able to choose their own communities––instead of being stuck where they are born––is a distinctly A...

The Unfunny Man Who Believes in Humor

How Lorne Michaels became the arbiter of funny

The New Authoritarianism

This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.

How Progressives Froze the American Dream

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

What Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Said

The rapper insists he’s a musician, not a messiah—a message reinforced by his Super Bowl performance.

A Super Bowl Spectacle Over the Gulf

The president plans to highlight his proposed name change mid-route on Air Force One.

What Is Hims Actually Selling?

The lifestyle-med company built a business on male anxieties. Now it’s betting on a new message: grievance.

Jethro’s Corner

A poem for Sunday

What the Hims Super Bowl Ad Is Really Selling

The lifestyle-med company built a business on male anxieties. Now it’s betting on a new message: grievance.

Superb Owl Sunday IX

A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating such magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe,...

‘A Very Christian Concept’

The faith’s mandate is more arduous than J. D. Vance’s account seems to allow.

Picking the Perfect Episode of TV

Readers share their selections from The Last of Us, West Wing, Community, and more.

Why Tom Brady Could Be Worth $375 Million in the B...

Applying any normal ROI analysis to Brady’s broadcaster contract is difficult for at least four reasons.

Trump’s Conquest of the Kennedy Center Is Accelera...

The president has begun purging the board of Washington’s premier arts organization.

Sun and Wood Can Be a Powerful Combination

In the right place, at the right time

How to Rebuild From the Ashes

Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park was destroyed by a fire in 2017—but mostly recovered. It could be a model for Altadena and Pacific Palisa...

Why I Chop Wood

It’s what makes environmental and economic sense in the place I live.

What an ‘America First’ Diet Would Really Look Lik...

The notion that the U.S. could produce all of its food domestically is nice, but very far from reality.

The Thrill of the Quest

A roundup of essays in which Atlantic writers travel near and far to find what’s missing

Trump’s Federal Purge

Panelists join to discuss the takedown of USAID

How One California Neighborhood Rebuilt After a De...

Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park was destroyed in 2017—but mostly recovered. It could be a model for Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

Another Edgelord Comes to Power

Paul Ingrassia, an online reactionary, is in place at the DOJ.

The No-Longer-Need-to-Hide-It Administration

Paul Ingrassia, an online reactionary, is in place at the DOJ.

How the Tariff Whiplash Could Haunt Pricing

The great North American trade war is over—for now—but uncertainty can do its own damage.

What Is AI Distillation?

And what does it mean if DeepSeek did it?

Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center

The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.

What the Democrats’ Musk Whisperer Thinks Now

“We need to make sure that Elon Musk has an allegiance to the Constitution,” Representative Ro Khanna says.

Paranoia Is Winning

How Elon Musk’s conspiracy theories became official White House policy

Bridget Jones Isn’t a Postfeminist Relic

How the beloved British diarist outlasted her critics

The Department of Paranoia

The effort to kill USAID has enshrined Elon Musk’s delusional conspiracy theories into official White House policy.

Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage

The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace.

A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing

Two authors’ memoirs attempt to communicate intensely isolating experiences to readers.

The Algorithmic Cage

The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace.

A New Kind of ‘Illness Realism’

Two authors' memoirs attempt to communicate intensely isolating experiences to readers.

The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Mille...

A perfect suit, made by an expert tailor out of superlative fabric, would do nothing less than transform me.

The Beating Heart of <em>Twin Peaks</em>

David Lynch's work was often described as “mysterious” or “surreal”—but the emotions it provoked were just as fundamental....

Bridget Jones Never Gets Old

How the beloved British diarist outlasted her critics

Photos of the Week: Mandarin Duck, Groundhog Day, ...

Hot summer weather in Brazil, snowboarding in Colorado, protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk in several states, a...

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Te...

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.


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