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The Olympics Could Have Avoided the Ugly Boxing Debate

Questions about unfair advantage won’t just go away.

Richard Nixon, We’re Sorry

The Watergate scandal forced his resignation 50 years ago. Today, he’d probably have gotten away with it.

Your Air Conditioner Is Lying to You

How does money-saver mode make sense?

Tim Walz, Food Guy

The Minnesota governor’s joyful embrace of cooking and eating is a signal.

RFK Jr. Could Still Be a Spoiler—But for Whom?

The third-party candidate was long seen as hurting Joe Biden more than Donald Trump. With Kamala Harris in the race, that dynamic ...

The Sci-Fi Writer Who Found Liberation—In Realism

In On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ imagined a freer world while confronting its inequities head-on.

Venezuela’s Berlin Wall Moment

President Maduro appears to believe dictatorship can survive on repression alone. What if he’s right?

How Greed Got Good Again

In HBO’s Industry, Gen Z reveals itself to be just as money-obsessed as the corporate raiders of Wall Street.

What the Convention Could Do for Kamala Harris

Americans just don’t know the Democratic nominee’s story.  

Photos of the Week: Swimming Elephant, Long Table, Book...

Skateboarding and steeplechase at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart at a dressage event, a traditional mask f...

We’re Having the Wrong Argument Over the Olympic Boxers...

Questions about unfair advantage won’t just go away.

Richard Nixon Was Unlucky

The Watergate scandal forced his resignation 50 years ago. Today, he’d probably have gotten away with it.

The Dueling Vice-Presidential Campaigns

So far, Tim Walz and J. D. Vance are using two very different modes of attack.

Olympics Photo of the Day: A Steep Climb

British sport climber Molly Thompson-Smith hangs on by her fingertips

Photos: One Year After the Lahaina Fire

Recent images from Maui, where recovery continues and efforts to rebuild are underway

More People Should Be Talking About IVF the Way Tim Wal...

Reproductive rights are almost always framed as a women’s issue. Walz reminds us that they affect men too.

Boeing Has Created the Flight Delay to End All Flight D...

Boeing sent two NASA astronauts to space for eight days. They could be there for eight months.

The Case for Choosing Death, Not Immortality

Everybody dies, everybody ages, and everybody obsesses over our only common fate.

The Summer Olympics Can’t Keep Up This Speed

The heat will continue to rise and slow athletes down.

How to Make #MeToo Offenders Pay

Those who accuse powerful people of sexual harassment and abuse need to be better protected from retaliatory lawsuits.

The Drug That Could Help End the Opioid Epidemic

One medication has the potential to drastically reduce the number of deaths involving opioids. Yet few people are taking it. Why?

The Summer Olympics Can’t Keep This Up

The heat will continue to rise and slow athletes down.

The Best Therapy for Our Anxiety Epidemic

Solutions to the mental-health crisis striking young people in particular are within reach.

The Crybaby Olympics

Sports has always had sore losers. But based on this year’s games, athletes seem to be getting worse at losing well.

The Post-liberal Catholics Find Their Man

As vice president, J. D. Vance would elevate their disdain for American liberalism to the highest levels of government.

A Cure for Our Anxious Young People

The simple part: less screen time. The other bit? Also simple: finding meaning in life.

An Intoxicating 500-Year-Old Mystery

The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is tak...

How to Fix the Secret Service Before It Fails Again

The agency suffers from a classic Washington problem—it’s been tasked with doing too much.

The GOP Is a Messy Soap Opera Right Now

And J. D. Vance’s staff needs to take his phone away.

<em>The Atlantic </em>publica una traducción al español...

Artículo de portada de septiembre escrito por Caitlin Dickerson, ganadora del premio Pulitzer, sobre su travesía por el Tapón del ...

<em>The Atlantic </em>publishes “Si Trump gana,” Spanis...

September cover story by Pulitzer winner Caitlin Dickerson, on traversing the Darién Gap, also available in Spanish

Dad Is on the Ballot

A nation turns its lonely eyes to the guy manning the grill.

Olympics Photo of the Day: An Emotional Finish

Spanish race-walker Maria Perez celebrates at the finish line.

All Eyes on Dad

A nation turns its lonely eye to the guy manning the grill.

What to Read When You Want to Quit

These titles help readers think through pressing questions about modern employment—including whether it’s time to walk away.

What Democrats Can Learn From the Trauma of 1968

They need to overcome the alienation of the radicals and the clannishness of the elites.

The Walz-Vance Inversion

Both candidates seek to appeal to swing voters as well as their party’s base—but they do so in totally opposite ways.

Having a Chance Has Changed the Democrats

After months of gloom, the prospect of victory transforms the party faithful.

Democrats Finally Get a Chance to Be Giddy

After months of gloom, the prospect of victory transforms the party faithful.

A Marriage That Changed Literary History

Fanny Stevenson forced her husband, Robert Louis Stevenson, to live a bigger life than he had known.

A Hot New Bombshell Is Taking Over Reality TV

Love Island USA is a dizzy, goofy delight—but the reasons for its success go deeper than its vision of dating-show chaos.

The Wild Adventures of Fanny Stevenson

Her surprising marriage to Robert Louis Stevenson changed literary history.

What I Learned at the Police Academy

Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly.

Israel on the Brink

If the Israelis find themselves facing difficult choices, so do their enemies.

Progressives Are Excited About Tim Walz. Should They Be...

The left is claiming him as one of its own, but Walz has broken with Democrats in the past.


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