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The president-elect’s most controversial Cabinet picks share one crucial tie.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security ...

The Senate can stop her.

A Former Republican Strategist on Why Harris Lost

Inflation, moderation, and candidate effects

The Queer Author Who Spoke the Plain Truth

Dorothy Allison, the Bastard Out of Carolina author who died last week, modeled the power of honesty in her writing and her life.

Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All

Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.

Richard Price’s Radical, Retrograde Novel

In Lazarus Man, he rejects the tropes of contemporary literature.

Putin Isn’t Fighting for Land in Ukraine

And Biden has mere weeks to give the Ukrainians the resources they need to fight.

The HR-ification of the Democratic Party

The party of norms, procedure, bureaucracy, DEI initiatives, rule following, language policing, and compliance

AI Can Save Humanity—Or End It

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we need t...

The Two Donald Trumps

Donald Trump campaigned as the return-to-normal candidate—while promising policies that would unleash fresh chaos.

Trump’s ‘Deep State’ Revenge

The president-elect has long demonized intelligence officers and other federal employees. This is how he might come for them.

How Can I Find More Satisfaction in Work?

My job consumes and torments me. There has to be a better way.

The Loyalists Are Collecting Their Rewards in Trum...

And Trump wants to bypass the Senate for some of his future appointees—raising concerns about who’s next.

Helping Ukraine Is Europe’s Job Now

Trump is closer to Putin than to any of the continent’s democratic leaders.

Trump Is Handing China a Golden Opportunity on Cli...

Already a leader in clean tech, China may see a new reason to act as leader in addressing climate change too.

In Praise of Clarity

There is no ambiguity here.

To Find Alien Intelligence, Start With the Mountai...

The key to complex life might be hiding miles below our feet.

Why Gossip Is Fatal to Good Writing

A new book compares the authors and frenemies Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, but its fixation on their rivalry obscures the complicat...

Winners of the European Wildlife Photographer of t...

Some of the winning and honored photographs from this year’s competition

Hydraulic Revolution

Photographs of Los Angeles’s lowriding scene

The Democrats’ Senate Nightmare Is Only Beginning...

If the party doesn’t figure out how to compete in more states, perpetual GOP dominance is all but assured.

Jonathan Chait Joins <em>The Atlantic</em> as a St...

Chait will write about politics and the second Trump administration from Washington, D.C.

There Really Is a Deep State

It’s nothing like what Donald Trump says it is.

The Cost-of-Living Crisis Explains Everything

The economy under Biden looked good but felt bad.

The Great Conspiracy-Theorist Flip-Flop

Elon Musk didn’t “steal” the election.

Trump Signals That He’s Serious About Mass Deporta...

These are not the staff picks of someone who doesn’t mean what he says.

What the Democrats Do Now

Party leaders have spent much of the past six days dissecting what went wrong. Now they’re pitching their vision for the future.

Seven Stories About Promising Medical Discoveries

Read about breakthroughs to treat lupus, a possible birth-control revolution, a food-allergy fix that’s been hiding in plain sight...

Why America Still Doesn’t Have a Female President...

Every woman is the wrong woman.

The Trump-Whim Economy Is Here

Expectations of who will gain, and who will lose, from the president-elect’s second term are already moving markets.

The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gende...

The party went into an election with policies it couldn’t defend—or even explain.

Mother of the Blues

A poem for Sunday

<em>SNL</em> Isn’t Bothering With Civility Anymore...

The reelection of Donald Trump to the White House will change how we talk—at least, the late-night show seems to think so.

The Only Thing Worse Than Talking to Joe Rogan

Not talking to him.

I’ve Watched America and Ukraine Switch Places

We know a thing or two about defending democracy. So do you.

The American Global Order Could End

U.S. voters wanted change. The world may pay the price.

Why Did Latinos Vote for Trump?

The narrative of America as the land of the free has ceased to be many voters’ top priority.

The Cumulative Toll of Democrats’ Delusions

One Democratic congressman wasn’t surprised by Tuesday’s election results.

The 21st Century’s Greatest, Ghastliest Showman

Donald Trump has made himself a spectacle—and inescapable.

How Good Sleep Became a Business

Sleep is a universal human need, but there’s no universal solution to struggling with it.

The Exhibit That Will Change How You See Impressio...

The National Gallery’s “Paris 1874” explores the movement’s dark origins.

The New Republican Coalition

How a broad, diverse alignment of voters propelled Donald Trump’s win

What I Didn’t Understand About Apple Picking

The activity can seem trivial, but it offers more than you might assume.

‘Make America Healthy Again’ Sounds Good Until You...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health agenda is politically slippery.

Don’t Give Up on America

This country has always been a big, beautiful land of contradictions.


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