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Beyond Doomscrolling

The internet we have, and the one we want

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Is Moderate Drinking Okay?

“Every drink takes five minutes off your life.” Maybe the thought scares you. Personally, I find comfort in it.

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A Sweeping January 6 Pardon Is an Attack...

The federal judges who stewarded these cases deserve more respect than that.

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The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Fore...

In the 1970s, Martha Goddard invented the rape kit. So why did she die in relative obscurity?

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Israel Never Defined Its Goals

When I talked with Israeli national-security officials last year, the most realistic of them spoke of Gaza’s future as resembling ...

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January 6 and the Case for Oblivion

The difference between forgetting the past and choosing not to remember it

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A Gaza Deal Closed, but No Closure

The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas is no guarantee of peace.

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Milk Has Divided Americans for More Than...

The raw-milk debate is but one flash point in the nation’s ongoing dairy drama.

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The Right Way to Look for a New Job

Being miserable at work is definitely a good reason for change. But how you go about it really matters for a happy outcome.

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Elon Musk Imagined a Cover-Up

The world’s wealthiest man revived an argument that the right already won.

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The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone

And so is the man who made it magical

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Brace for Foreign-Policy Chaos

The only certainty is more uncertainty.

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The Internet Is TikTok Now

Even LinkedIn copied it.

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‘I Won’t Touch Instagram’

TikTok users are searching for a new home. Are there any good ones left?

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The End of the DEI Era

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.

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MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World

Peter Thiel is the latest pro-Trump luminary to take a conspiracist turn.

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Justin Trudeau’s Performative Self-Regar...

The Canadian leader made progressivism his brand—and ended up looking like a hypocrite.

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A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

Aria Aber’s debut about an Afghan German party girl in Berlin shows that there are plenty of ways to tell an outsider’s story.

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No More Mr. Tough Guy on China

Trump’s relations with corporate titans seem to have softened his hard line.

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The Hipster Grifter Peaked Too Soon

Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.

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What Happens When a Plastic City Burns

Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.

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Life in Another Light, 2024 Infrared-Pho...

Some of the top and honored images from this year’s infrared-photography competition

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Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to ...

An emerging field of genetics promises to let parents choose the “healthiest” baby.

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Trump Made the Gaza Cease-Fire Happen

But not for the reasons he or Biden’s critics say

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My Favorite Trails Are Destroyed

Easy access to nature is what makes my hometown special. Now some of its signature hikes are burning.

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The One Trump Pick Democrats Actually Li...

Does Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination for labor secretary signal a shift in the GOP’s stance toward unions?

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No One Will Remember Jack Smith’s Report...

But indifference to truth and honor and the rule of law has a way of catching up with a country.

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How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the spread of the virus so far

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How Netanyahu Misread His Relationship w...

The cease-fire in Gaza reflects another triumph for Donald Trump and shows Benjamin Netanyahu who’s boss.

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America Just Kinda, Sorta Banned Cigaret...

A new rule by the FDA could change smoking as we know it.

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A Holocaust Novel Confronts Fiction’s Li...

Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.

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The Scientist vs. the Machine

What happened when AI took over these researchers’ jobs?

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Harvard Didn’t Break America

Readers respond to our December 2024 cover story and more.

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Where Han Kang’s Nightmares Come From

In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.

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They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rin...

The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history

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Iran’s Return to Pragmatism

The events of 2024 shifted the balance of power in the Middle East—and inside Iran.

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No One Cares That the Chimpanzee Is Sing...

The musical biopic Better Man is so much more than its curious gimmick.

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<em>The Atlantic</em> Hires Caity Weaver...

Today The Atlantic is announcing the hire of Caity Weaver as a staff writer, who joins from The New York Times Magazine, and two n...

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Why Didn’t Jack Smith Charge Trump With ...

The law simply wasn’t prepared for a sitting president who would attempt to steal an election.

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Jack Smith Gives Up

The January 6 crime paid off for Trump.

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I Have a Huge Crush on a Writer

Should I reach out to her?

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A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs

It isn’t hand sanitizer.

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How Los Angeles Must Rebuild

“Almost everything you can do to avoid the worst outcomes must take place long before that first spark.”

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Pete Hegseth Declines to Answer

At today’s confirmation hearing, the defense-secretary nominee looked like a man who understood that the fix was in.

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The GOP Is No Longer the Party of Nation...

America’s allies and enemies watched as Trump’s pick for defense secretary failed to quell concerns about his character and qualif...

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