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A poem for Wednesday because I’d deemed the book complete, the last pages written, end notes done. Because the pages seemed armored against me....
Why Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants to rescue the speaker from his own party If Speaker Mike Johnson keeps his job, it’ll be...
Tesla’s future as the next Ford is in doubt. Instead, the company may become the next Con Ed. Of late, Tesla’s cars have come to seem a bit...
Where does a woman go when she’s outgrown the narratives she’s telling? The year was 2006. Popular music was, for women, a pretty desolate...
Chile’s Amazing National Parks Alan Taylor 2:55 PM ET 30 Photos In Focus Across the length of Chile, stretching 2,650 miles (4,265 kilometers)...
Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety. Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn’t want crushed...
Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem. Columbia University shut down all in-person classes on Monday, and faculty and staff...
No one has a plan for the app. So: You’ve decided to force a multibillion-dollar technology company with ties to China to divest from its...
A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the disease sweeping through animals and raising food-safety questions This is an edition of The Atlantic...
Why did I cry for my yellow Lab but not my mom? My mom died six years ago, a few hours after I sat on the edge of her bed at her nursing home in...
Challengers has plenty of moody intrigue, and it doesn’t skimp on the sports, either. As any fan of tennis can inform you, one of the sport’s...
A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the cruel means by which the Dutch tried to hold on to their colony. Even the most...
Students are bearing the brunt of the disastrous FAFSA overhaul. That may affect where they go to college—and whether they enroll at all. This is...
Running a marathon has become a milestone for a growing number of young adults. Maybe you started running for fitness, or because it seemed like a...
What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive? Yesterday just before midnight, word...
The passage of the Ukrainian aid package won’t transform the GOP. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through...
For Earth Day, a Photo Appreciation of Birds Alan Taylor 2:24 PM ET 30 Photos In Focus On this Earth Day, a day set aside to remember and...
A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed. The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an...
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic. What is “real life,” now that the internet and AI are integrated into so much that we do? In...
A potential reckoning he has spent a lifetime eluding could be coming. Donald Trump’s biographers all seem to agree that he didn’t get a lot of...
What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this? You could be forgiven for thinking it was Mike Johnson’s idea to host the House Republicans’...
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is...
To read through the court filings is to be plunged back anew into the dizzying chaos of those last few weeks before the 2016 election. A specter is...
Too many Americans feel that our best days are behind us. It had been clear for years that China was rising and rising—building rail lines and...
Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Trump is reaping the benefits. In May 1995, Pat Buchanan appeared at the...
Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not. Recently, a man visiting his parents’ newly renovated home...
Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change. It’s not too late, because it’s never too late. No outcomes are ever...
Why is the cost of car insurance up 40 percent over the past two years? Inflation, finally, has cooled off. Prices have increased 2.5 percent over...
The iconic Yankees broadcaster reminds us that what makes us human cannot be imitated. My family never had cable or watched much TV when I was...
A popular remedy is made from the animals’ hides—but the out-of-control trade is beginning to cause geopolitical problems for Beijing. Search on...
A poem for Sunday — with a phrase by Roger Reeves At the long edge of the screen door keeping most of the flies out. At the classroom door, smooth...
A conversation with this year’s speed-solving champion, Paolo Pasco Don’t want to miss a single column? Sign up to get Caleb’s writing in your...
Culture and entertainment musts from Valerie Trapp This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest...
It wasn’t just Putin who lost in the House vote on Ukraine aid. Ukraine won. Trump lost. The House vote to aid Ukraine renews hope that Ukraine...