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The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education

Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.

Writing Is a Blood-and-Guts Business

AI made me consider limitlessness. Now I believe that human limits are what lead us to create meaningful art.

The Inflation Plateau

Rates have been stuck at around 3.5 for the past three months. What’s going on?

What Taylor Swift Sees in “The Albatross”

She can’t help identifying with the notorious bird from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem.

The Point of Having a Spiritual Quest

The key to transcendence starts with a practice, not your feelings.

In Search of America Aboard the Icon of the Seas

Twenty decks, seven swimming pools, and one novelist wearing a meatball T-shirt

How Bird Flu Is Shaping People’s Lives

A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the disease sweeping through animals and raising food-safety questions

Welcome to the TikTok Meltdown

The ban is a disaster, even if you support it.

The TikTok Ban Is a Disaster, Even if You Support It

No one has a plan for the app.

The Story That’s Holding Taylor Swift Back

The artist is an extraordinarily powerful woman who still, somehow, feels like she has no real power at all.

Columbia Has Resorted to Pedagogy Theater

Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem.

Chile’s Amazing National Parks

Images of several of Chile’s national parks, encompassing a wide variety of environments

Tesla Is Not the Next Ford. It’s the Next Con Ed.

Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling.

Taylor Swift Is Stuck in the Story

Where does a woman go when she’s outgrown the narratives she’s telling?

Elon Musk’s EV Empire Is Crumbling

Tesla’s future as the next Ford is in doubt. Instead, the company may become the next Con Ed.

The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.

A Democrat’s Case for Saving Mike Johnson

Why Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants to rescue the speaker from his own party

My Book Had Come Undone

A poem for Wednesday

The College Financial-Aid Scramble

Students are bearing the brunt of the disastrous FAFSA overhaul. That may affect where they go to college—and whether they enroll ...

The Particular Cruelty of Colonial Wars

A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power.

Why a Dog’s Death Hits So Hard

I loved my mom more than my dog. So why did I cry for him but not for her?

The Reason One Colonial War Was So Brutal

A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to hold on to their colony....

A Sexy Tennis Thriller—Yes, Really

Challengers has plenty of moody intrigue, and it doesn’t skimp on the sports, either.

The Particular Brutality of Colonial Wars

A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the cruel means by which the Dutch tried to hold on to their colony.

What It Means to Love a Dog

Why did I cry for my yellow Lab but not my mom?

The New Quarter-Life Crisis

Running a marathon has become a milestone for a growing number of young adults.

The Best Friends to Maybe-Lovers to Tennis Rivals Pipel...

Challengers has plenty of moody intrigue, and it doesn’t skimp on the sports, either.

The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’

What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?

Last Weekend’s Political Mirage

The passage of the Ukrainian aid package won’t transform the GOP.

A Dentist Found a Jawbone in a Floor Tile

Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not.

It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.

For Earth Day, a Photo Appreciation of Birds

A handful of images of the tens of billions of individual animals divided among some 10,000 species, inhabiting nearly every envir...

The Accidental Speaker

What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?

The Politics of Pessimism

Why so many American leaders are advancing a new kind of nihilism

America Had a Good Run

The politics of pessimism

Trump’s Misogyny Is on Trial in New York

To read through the court filings is to be plunged back anew into the dizzying chaos of those last few weeks before the 2016 elect...

What Donald Trump Fears Most

A potential reckoning he has spent a lifetime eluding could be coming.

The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Moveme...

Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Trump is reaping the benefits.

Freedom for the Wolves

Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not ...

The New American Pessimism

Too many Americans feel that our best days are behind us.

Introducing: How to Know What’s Real

A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic.

The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Wi...

Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change.

How the Humble Donkey Became a Big Problem for China

A popular remedy is made from the animals’ hides—but the out-of-control trade is beginning to cause geopolitical problems for Beij...

How Baseball Explains the Limits of AI

The iconic Yankees broadcaster reminds us that what makes us human cannot be imitated.

Why Did Cars Get So Expensive?

The cost of insurance is up 40 percent over the past two years.


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