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Her new memoir doubles as a modern-day horror story. “I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified,” Christine Blasey Ford said in...
A new treatment for cystic fibrosis can change a person’s life, but is not officially approved for anyone under 2. At six months pregnant, Sonja...
Andrea Long Chu says the unpopular part out loud. The point of a public intellectual is to make wild arguments with maximum conviction. And in this...
As both child care and adolescence have changed, the sitter has started to disappear. Babysitting used to be both a job and a rite of passage. For...
After decades of treatment as second-class citizens, female college athletes are surpassing men in popularity, interest, and financial potential....
If Donald Trump loses November’s election, it will be for one reason: He can’t help making it all about himself. Donald Trump dominated the news...
Despite his supposed cancellation, the Hitler-praising rapper has his first No. 1 single since 2011. The funny thing about the concept of cancel...
More than five months in, Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza. Israeli...
The Kremlin continues its clumsy nuclear games with threats to send Russian weapons to Belarus. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a...
Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm. Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk fired the latest shot in his feud with OpenAI:...
The most pro-labor president in history could hardly do more for unions, but their members aren’t feeling it. Joe Biden courted the leaders of...
People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think. When Steve...
A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies. Earlier this...
A wider conversation about how many Black women athletes have been marginalized in this sport, despite their invaluable contributions. Earlier this...
If she leaves the Court this year, President Joe Biden will nominate a young and reliably liberal judge to replace her. On Election Day in 2006,...
The most pro-labor president in history could hardly do more for unions, but their members aren’t feeling it. Joe Biden courted the leaders of...
Two years ago, I wrote an Atlantic cover story about the case of C. J. Rice, a Philadelphia teenager convicted of attempted homicide. Today, he was...
A new novel suggests that figuring out life after workism is itself a serious job. Some of my friends and I keep an accountability tracker to help...
Just stop. One Tuesday last month, Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a video to Instagram, but not to his Stories, where it would quickly disappear. This...
The sponsors of the law fundamentally misunderstood the nature of addiction. America’s most radical experiment with drug decriminalization has...
The ACLU’s game plan for protecting civil rights through a potential second Trump administration For the venerable American Civil Liberties...
Six months later, the bleached corals are still recovering. This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine . In the Northern Hemisphere,...
A poem for Sunday When I was a child, my grandmother Rachel lived in a small room next to mine. She wore what were called “housecoats” and put...
It’s not cops or soldiers. New York Governor Kathy Hochul unfurled a subway “safety” plan last week. It included assigning 750 National Guard...
Culture and entertainment musts from Charlie Warzel This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...
“You don’t see the president condemning Schumer’s statements, criticizing it at all … That does say a lot.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck...
In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves. My daughter Maggie gave birth to Ellie, my granddaughter, by...
Attention spans, attitudes, and education all affect the way we read. This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors...
Assisted migration could be the only way for some trees to escape the heat. This article was originally published in Knowable Magazine . On a brisk...
Who will succeed Russia’s longest-serving ruler since Stalin? Not even the handpicked elite can say. Not even the most passionate supporters of...
As a Palestinian food writer, I believed culinary exchange could build empathy. In so many cases, that hasn’t happened. The first dinner I ever...
The Atlantic assembled a list of 136 works of fiction that we consider to be the most significant of the past 100 years. This is an edition of the...
True Detective was the last straw: I’m done with the mystery-box genre. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you...
Alex Garland’s new film imagines a United States torn asunder, and denies any easy explanations about why. In Alex Garland’s new film, Civil War,...
Homicides have risen in the nation’s capital while falling elsewhere. One key difference: D.C. residents can’t elect their own D.A. Matthew Graves...
Decades into their recovery program, black-footed ferrets still don’t have a clear-cut path to leaving the endangered-species list. At about 3:30...
They’re flocking to urban areas for the same reasons people do. Every night as dusk falls in Portland, Oregon, the sky fills with birds. While...
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify. The most controversial Israeli comedy...
Four seasons, six children in photographs Jesse Lenz’s new collection of photographs, The Seraphim , opens with a striking image: A child stands...
Photos of the Week: Bridal Carry, Ostrich Hug, Godzilla Oscar Alan Taylor 6:00 AM ET 35 Photos In Focus X-ray analysis of an 18th-century violin in...
The regulation of the fertility industry is strangely underdeveloped, leaving parents, children, clinics, and practitioners lacking even basic...
The workers who remain deal with stress, guilt, and a changed workplace. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you...