Take Your Book Outside
Reading al fresco isn’t always idyllic—there are sun, bugs, heat. But it can be sublime.
The Most Persuasive ‘People’ on Reddit Were a Front for AI
It’s one thing to be fooled by a human with dubious morals, and another entirely to...
Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
Marvel Doesn’t Have to Try So Hard
The new film Thunderbolts* understands that bigger does not mean better.
Jamie Thompson and Josh Tyrangiel Joining The Atlantic as Staff Writers
Thompson won 2025 National Magazine Award for Atlantic cover story, “To Stop a Shooter”
Photos of the Week: May Day, Fire Festival, Finger Wrestling
A sandstorm in northeastern Syria, the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican, members of ZZ...
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
Is Anthony Weiner Ready to Go Another Round?
The ex-congressman whose name became a punch line is running for New York’s city council. In...
A White House Briefing Straight From North Korea
How MAGA influencers have reshaped the press corps
A Witch Hunt at the State Department
Trump’s commissars are looking for ideological enemies.
Inside Mike Waltz’s White House Exit
Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper.
Who Gets ‘Panzer’ Tattooed on Their Arm?
The ink that tells the story of Trump’s second term
When Presidents Sought a Third (and Fourth) Term
Winning more than two elections was unthinkable. Then came FDR.
Mike Waltz Was Doomed From the Start
Even without Signalgate, the president wasn’t likely to keep his national security adviser around long.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
Six Books You’ll Want to Read Outdoors
Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long.
Trump Is Fulfilling Kissinger’s Dream
The president is not the first American leader to disregard the role of morality in foreign...
Why Is Trump So Into Crypto?
The president’s enthusiasm for digital currency could destabilize America’s financial systems.
Schrödinger’s Detainees
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of hundreds of prisoners in El Salvador who have been denied...
The Atlantic Hires Missy Ryan as Staff Writer
Missy Ryan (Marvin Joseph)April 30, 2025, 3:16 PM ET The Atlantic is announcing the hire of...
America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
A collection of winning and honored images from this year’s nature-photo competition
The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
They’re no longer terrible—in fact, they’re often the draw.
Well, That’s One Way to Address America’s Vaping Problem
Millions of Americans are inhaling e-cigarettes illegally imported from China. Because of tariffs, they’re about to...
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the...
The Trump Voters Who Like What They See
“Even if they don’t agree with everything he’s doing, he’s doing something.”
This Is the Way a World Order Ends
Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting...
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
The Polls Are Sending Trump a Message
The president is eager to blame the messenger. But his real problem is the numbers themselves.
How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election
Trump’s threats to annex Canada reversed its political trend—but they should not reverse its commitment to...
The Liberals Who Can’t Stop Winning
Trump isn’t the only reason Canada’s center-left has stayed in power.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the...
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
A New Book Challenges the Church’s Reputation on Sex
Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to...
The Great Language Flattening
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.
Who’s Afraid of Gen Z’s Squeaky Clean, Backflipping Bro?
Benson Boone has charmed his way to the top—and that really seems to bother some people.
Why Trump Is Giving Putin Everything He Wants
If the U.S. president holds all the cards, why hasn’t he won any concessions from Russia?
Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s...
The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind
A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.
An Unsustainable Presidency
Nothing about Donald Trump’s first 100 days has been ordinary.
The New Divide in American Marriage
College graduates are marrying at high rates. Everyone else isn’t.
A Hollywood Anachronism That Still Holds Up
The Legend of Ochi conjures the kinds of effects the film industry rarely uses anymore.
The One Thing That Drives Trump
Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer discuss the challenges of reporting on the president.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
DOGE Was Bad. Schedule F Will Be Worse.
An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only...
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Does Anyone Still Hitchhike?
Traveling by thumb isn’t popular anymore. Some say it should be.