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Take Your Book Outside
Reading al fresco isn’t always idyllic—there are sun, bugs, heat. But it can be sublime.
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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...
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Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
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Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
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Marvel Doesn’t Have to Try So Hard
The new film Thunderbolts* understands that bigger does not mean better.
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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”
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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...
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The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
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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...
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A White House Briefing Straight From North Korea
How MAGA influencers have reshaped the press corps
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A Witch Hunt at the State Department
Trump’s commissars are looking for ideological enemies.
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Inside Mike Waltz’s White House Exit
Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper.
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Who Gets ‘Panzer’ Tattooed on Their Arm?
The ink that tells the story of Trump’s second term
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When Presidents Sought a Third (and Fourth) Term
Winning more than two elections was unthinkable. Then came FDR.
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Mike Waltz Was Doomed From the Start
Even without Signalgate, the president wasn’t likely to keep his national security adviser around long.
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Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
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Six Books You’ll Want to Read Outdoors
Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long.
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Trump Is Fulfilling Kissinger’s Dream
The president is not the first American leader to disregard the role of morality in foreign...
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Why Is Trump So Into Crypto?
The president’s enthusiasm for digital currency could destabilize America’s financial systems.
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Schrödinger’s Detainees
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of hundreds of prisoners in El Salvador who have been denied...
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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...
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America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
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Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
A collection of winning and honored images from this year’s nature-photo competition
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The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
They’re no longer terrible—in fact, they’re often the draw.
