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How to Win Pennsylvania

By remembering that class, not race, is now the starkest division in American politics

Why Harris Is Joining Forces With the Never Trumpe...

They’re helping her make the case that keeping Donald Trump out of office is not about party politics.

No One Knows How Big Pumpkins Can Get

A decade ago, the world's heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. Now the 3,000-pound mark is within sight.

Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Ha...

The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.

The Dream of a 3,000-Pound Pumpkin

Giant pumpkins somehow just keep getting bigger.

War Is Coming. Will Our Next President Be Ready?

The world stands on the brink of great-power conflict—yet neither candidate has mapped out for American voters how the U.S. can me...

The Worst Insult I Ever Heard as an Opera Singer

I’m not sure how to recover from this.

The U.S. Is Electing a Wartime President

The world stands on the brink of great-power conflict—yet neither candidate has mapped out for American voters how the U.S. can me...

There’s No Coming Back From <em>Dobbs</em>

No new federal legislation can rewind abortion in America to 2021.

The Improbable Coalition That Is Harris’s Best Hop...

The battleground state of Michigan reveals the Democrat’s most plausible path to winning the presidency.

This Influencer Says You Can’t Parent Too Gently

Chelsey Hauge-Zavaleta says parents should avoid punishing their kids and focus on "loving connection" instead. Do her methods wor...

Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats?

More Black and Latino voters are open to voting for Republicans.

The Slop Candidate

Donald Trump embraces a working-class fantasy.

Election Disinformation Is Getting More Chaotic

A conversation with Elaine Godfrey about what makes this moment so ripe for conspiracy theories

A Moon-Size Hole in Cat Research

Is the waning gibbous driving my cat insane?

Coke, Twinkies, Skittles, and … Whole-Grain Bread?...

What counts as an ultra-processed food can be perplexing and arbitrary.

The Perverse Consequences of Tuition-Free Medical ...

The latest philanthropic trend, no matter how well intended, might be making health-care inequality worse.

Is the Moon Driving My Cat Insane?

When the moon hits your cat, makes him sprint through your flat, that’s a scientific mystery.

The Invasion That Wasn’t

Conspiracy theories in small-town Alabama

A Dissident Is Built Different

How did Alexei Navalny stand up to a totalitarian regime?

What Would a Second Trump Administration Mean for ...

Markets, weapons, and a deal, any deal, are likely to matter more than Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The Passion of Alexei Navalny

What does it take to stand up to a totalitarian regime?

The Case Against Pessimism

The West has to believe that democracy will prevail.

The West Has to Believe that Democracy Will Prevai...

The case against pessimism—in Ukraine and around the world

Michael Keaton’s Simple Trick on<em> SNL</em>

The actor can go from “regular guy” to awkward eccentric in a heartbeat.

Tripping on Nothing

New, non-hallucinogenic versions of psychedelics are blurring the boundaries of the drug trip.

Sunday Morning

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Why the Oil Market Is Not Shocked

Conflict in the Middle East always used to mean a spike in gas prices. So what’s changed?

Five Stories for Autumn Lovers

These Sunday reads look at the shifting fall season, how Starbucks perfected the pumpkin spice latte, and more.

The Farmers Subletting Their Fields to Birds

Farmers are temporarily transforming their fields into much-needed wetlands.

The Final Weeks

With just over two weeks until Election Day, will the candidates’ shifting campaign rhetoric sway any new voters?

The Real Differences Between Introverts and Extrov...

Understanding these two types of personalities can help us better understand how personality is formed.

What Elon Musk Really Wants

The Tesla and X mogul has long dreamed of redesigning the world in his own extreme image. Trump may be his Trojan horse.

Sinwar’s Death Changes Nothing

The Gaza war will go on until both sides stop wanting it to.

Two People Will Decide What Comes of Sinwar’s Deat...

Freedom for the hostages, or more of the same?

Trump’s ‘Day of Love’ Caps a Bizarre Week

The former president’s mental coherence continues to unravel in public.

The ‘Moment of Chaos’ That Hostage Families Were W...

Sinwar’s death is an opening for a deal.

The Age of AI Child Abuse Is Here

For maybe the first time, the scale of the problem is coming into view.

Big Tech Has Given Itself an AI Deadline

Why are AI execs suddenly saying that superintelligence is just around the corner?

The Domestic Thriller That Shatters Chilean Myths

In Alia Trabucco Zerán’s novel Clean, a housekeeper’s testimony exposes social fissures that have endured after Pinochet.

People Are Asking AI for Child Pornography

For maybe the first time, the scale of the problem is coming into view.

Photos of the Week: Big Tex, Giant Regatta, Leaf B...

A heart-shaped lake in Germany, sculptures by the sea in Australia, sightseeing in the Gobi desert, a colorful forest in Romania, ...

The Domestic Thriller That Indicts an Entire Socie...

In Alia Trabucco Zerán’s novel Clean, a Chilean housekeeper’s testimony exposes social fissures that have endured after Pinochet....

Who Owns an Idea?

Cases of loose inspiration or coincidental convergences in art can be fascinating, because they force us to rethink what originali...

Introducing Atlantic Labs: Research and Experiment...

Today The Atlantic is launching Atlantic Labs, a research and development site from the product and technology team. The product t...


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