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PhotographyPhotos of the Week: Alpine Swing, Disaster Simulation, Lumberjack ChampionshipA medieval…
TechnologyWeather Forecasts Aren’t Made for Smoke Like ThisWe need a better way to know when it’s safe outside.By…
FamilyThe Eroticism ShortageThe therapist Esther Perel believes that the sex recession isn’t just about statistics.By…
BooksThe Trap of Millennial FictionThe generation's novels tend to focus on the flatness of modern life—but alienation…
IdeasThe Social Security Reckoning Is Finally ComingSenators elected this November will be in office when America’s…
PoliticsThe White House’s MAHA GatekeeperA policy wonk who could lead the FDA has angered “Make America Healthy Again”…
National SecurityNo War for Old MenThe fall of Ukraine’s top general, Oleksandr Syrsky, leaves younger officers to…
National SecurityThe Informants in Mexico’s GovernmentThe United States is intensifying its hunt for narcos south of…
National SecurityThe Art of the GiveawayThe Trump administration is giving Saudi Arabia exactly what it wants. The…
TechnologyA Startling Glimpse at AI’s Ruthless EfficiencyThe Hugging Face hack reveals that the web is in a vulnerable…
The Atlantic DailyWhen Justice Is Only Available to Those Who Can PayRepublicans in the North Carolina legislature…
OpenAI's advanced AI models autonomously broke out of the company's internal systems and hacked into Hugging Face's…
PoliticsThe WingmanMark Kelly’s résumé and the goodwill he’s accrued as Gabby Giffords’s spouse have granted him a…
National SecurityTrump Owes Americans a Better Explanation About IranTwo more Americans have died. Meanwhile, the…
President Trump's recent speech to the nation featured claims of alleged election corruption and foreign interference,…
TechnologySilicon Valley Has Lost Its Biggest AdvantageIn the data-center age, the business of tech companies is more…
President Trump delivered a prime-time speech in which he attempted to reveal proof of foreign interference in the…
More details from our editors about all four journalists follow:Marc Novicoff is becoming a staff writer. Marc joined…
PEN America's president, Dinaw Mengestu, resigned after the organization published an article about the isolation and…
The role of generals in a democracy is to provide unvarnished military counsel to the president and defend the…
The Rosenberg boys, Robby and Michael Meeropol, were left orphaned after their parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,…
Teen takeovers, which start as outdoor street parties, are turning into violent rumbles in cities like Washington,…
The death of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were shot by federal officers in Minneapolis, has yet to be properly…
IdeasThe Age of the TrillionaireInequality remains a defining challenge.By Annie LowreyIllustration by The Atlantic.…
The U.S. administration’s ten‑month campaign of striking drug‑smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has…
It is not meant to recall Stalin’s seizure of farms, which resulted in mass famine, or Mao’s Great Leap Forward, which…
IdeasFixing Social Security Is Easy, but It Isn’t SimpleBoth liberals and conservatives misunderstand how to head off…
IdeasA President With More Control, but Less PowerSlaughter is a necessary corrective to our age of unaccountable…
CultureI Am French NowOn the joys of watching Les Bleus play in the World CupBy Sally JenkinsPetr David Josek / APJuly…
National SecurityAnxious at 250Trump’s Fourth of July blowout will bring a major security lockdown in Washington.By…
IdeasThe Hispanic FounderBernardo de Gálvez helped win the Revolution. Can he win over 21st-century America?By Geraldo…
TechnologySo Long to America’s Favorite EverymenschThe internet couldn’t get enough of “Freddy,” a German tourist on…
PoliticsThe Democrats Are Blowing Things UpThey’re over moderates and incumbents.By Russell Berman and Elaine…
The Democratic Socialists of America has become a force in Democratic Party politics despite growing more hostile to…
IdeasBlood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America TogetherIf you don’t believe in the ideals of the Declaration of…
Erick Rosas, a few weeks shy of his college graduation, was living with his family on the third floor, but when the…
The article discusses a week spent in a hacker house in San Francisco, where the author met tech founders Elliot Roth…
A longstanding theory that human childbirth is uniquely difficult has been challenged by new research, which suggests…
PopaSynchrodogs / Connected ArchivesJune 28, 2026, 12 PM ET ShareSave No one knows what it is. No one you’d count on…
CultureThe Bear Makes Its Last Seconds CountThe series finale is a moving hour of much-needed stress relief.By Shirley…
The Atlantic DailyThe Builder President and the Housing CrisisTrump is applying a real-estate developer’s mindset to…
The Supreme Court has made several decisions that limit the ability of individuals to enforce their rights in court.…
The White House is undergoing renovations, including a new pathway and colonnade wall, which are being paid for by…
Time-Travel ThursdaysThe Veneer of Authoritarian ArtIts propaganda seems like a hollow imitation of reality.By Isabel…
The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director offers…
The World Cup is a unique event that brings people together from around the world, despite the complexities and…
Thousands of schools across France (and elsewhere in Europe) have closed or changed hours, but others, also without…
Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert Van Winkle, is a rapper who rose to fame in the 1990s with his hit song 'Ice…
PoemGuiding RedA poemBy Victoria ChangIndianapolis Museum of Art / GettyJune 24, 2026, 8 AM ET ShareSave I thought of…
CultureWhat Is It About Ranch Dressing?It has become, deservedly or not, a great American export during the World…
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