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Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.

Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.

The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

The price of eggs has some online creators suggesting that potatoes are a suitable alternative. Please believe me, they are wrong.

The classic kids’ game teaches a lesson about public health that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to learn.

L to R: Tyler Austin Harper (Phyllis Graber Jensen), Jenna Johnson (Marvin Joseph), Dan Zak (Marvin Joseph)April 15, 2025, 4:14 PM ET Today The Atlantic is announcing three new staff members: Tyler Austin Harper, who was previously a contributing writer, will become a staff writer, and Jenna Johnson and Dan Zak will...

Sabotaging the agency’s work amounts to an inducement for the ultra-rich to treat taxes as a voluntary contribution.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you had to admire.

The administration’s drive to carry out the largest campaign in history has ensnared people who didn’t see themselves as targets.