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It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.| The Atlantic
How Canada’s “reconciliation” with its Indigenous people went wrong| The Atlantic
We’ll never look at potatoes the same way again.| The Atlantic
How prices, tastes, and preferences changed in 2025| The Atlantic
The balance of power is shifting toward cheap drones and away from expensive ships.| The Atlantic
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.| The Atlantic
Salmon with Abraham Lincoln and Jesus, plus other hypothetical dinner parties from The Katie Miller Podcast| The Atlantic
It’s not just kids who can’t stop scrolling.| The Atlantic
Each collection speaks to a different seasonal mood, but all are worth slowing down with before the new year.| The Atlantic
Meditations on how to nurture and strengthen your relationships in the new year| The Atlantic
As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.| The Atlantic
Can Daniel Patrick Moynihan show the left how to win again?| The Atlantic
The Netflix drama’s final season settles for “compulsively watchable.” Is that all we get?| The Atlantic
Day 25 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar| The Atlantic
In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet delivers both cringe and charisma.| The Atlantic
Why it’s hard to watch the NBA’s most promising young talent| The Atlantic
Whoever wins… we lose?| The Atlantic
The ancient Christmas story of the Magi contains a message that can guide your modern search for happiness.| The Atlantic
The latest batch includes many new references to Trump—and enough ammunition for Congress to keep pressing.| The Atlantic
A roundup of songs that evoke a new nostalgia| The Atlantic
The Atlantic’s Helen Lewis on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, why comedians are attracted to conspiracy theories, and the rise of the right-wing comedy-podcast industrial complex. Plus: the importance of NATO and David’s reflections on Edith Wharton’s Autres Temps.| The Atlantic
It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.| The Atlantic
Day 24 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar| The Atlantic
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.| The Atlantic
A new documentary probes the influential Dateline series—and the titillating nature of true crime itself.| The Atlantic
Can the Church bring back the formerly faithful?| The Atlantic
Rabih Alameddine, who won the National Book Award last month, has described his idiosyncratic approach as “childish rebelliousness.”| The Atlantic
The Florida-based judge is likely to once again play a central role in politics in the new year.| The Atlantic
AI struggles to write a good jingle.| The Atlantic
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.| The Atlantic
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.| The Atlantic
Do your parents have a screen-time problem?| The Atlantic
An entire part of the White House can’t just disappear.| The Atlantic
He hasn’t ended the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. His economy looks shaky. And then there’s Jeffrey Epstein.| The Atlantic
Aides kept suggesting things to do. Trump kept saying no.| The Atlantic
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.| The Atlantic
They’re blaming their leader, House Speaker Mike Johnson.| The Atlantic
The Trump administration’s release of the long-awaited Epstein files didn’t provide what survivors were looking for.| The Atlantic
Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.| The Atlantic
The president is desperate to make the questions go away, but there is no sign they will.| The Atlantic
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J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.| The Atlantic
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.| The Atlantic
The president is no longer dominating his party or the country in the way he once did.| The Atlantic
In the weeks before Election Day, it seemed like the candidate had two campaigns.| The Atlantic
At a meeting of the DNC, the party seemed to be at pains to demonstrate that it learned nothing from its 2024 defeat.| The Atlantic
Metro stops, LinkedIn DMs, and other mundane data points are being packaged for the end-of-year trend.| The Atlantic
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.| The Atlantic
Gigantic piles of impounded, abandoned, and broken bicycles have become a familiar sight in many Chinese cities, after a rush to build up its new bike-sharing industry vastly overreached.| The Atlantic
The pandemic is reintroducing the nation to its kitchens.| The Atlantic
Too many communities have developed ways to excuse or otherwise ignore prejudice.| The Atlantic
Americans will always seek out, discuss, and be moved by art that is messy, tense, and chaotic, whether the censors of any moment like it or not.| The Atlantic
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.| The Atlantic
Trump’s plan to corrupt the media is starting to work.| The Atlantic
The first-ever ransomware attack was delivered on a floppy disk.| The Atlantic
Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities.| The Atlantic
Here are the questions and answers from today’s Atlantic Trivia on Instagram.| The Atlantic
Alerts about classroom reading have been accused of weakening America's college students. But they might not do anything at all.| The Atlantic
The popular spa treatment is certainly relaxing—but its purveyors make a lot of false claims.| The Atlantic
The problem with shoehorning a Middle Eastern war—or American history—into a trendy academic theory| The Atlantic
I traveled to Sommarøy to find out whether a town really can live free from the clock.| The Atlantic
My week partying with the young founders at the heart of the AI boom| The Atlantic
The organization’s recent hiring reveals a willingness to countenance views decisively outside the American mainstream.| The Atlantic
The Epstein files are here, and they are too redacted to satisfy anyone.| The Atlantic
For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship.| The Atlantic
Though association with the man is certainly worthy of scrutiny, not everyone in his network is guilty of participation in his abusive sexual enterprise—or necessarily guilty at all.| The Atlantic
Parents are desperate to get leucovorin for their children, but promised help has not arrived.| The Atlantic
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.| The Atlantic
The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact.| The Atlantic
The misguided temptation to exaggerate poverty| The Atlantic
The intellectual world that Norman Podhoretz created| The Atlantic
Hint: It’s not just the screens.| The Atlantic
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.| The Atlantic
The platform has always been in the doomscrolling business, and business is booming.| The Atlantic
Xi Jinping picked a fight over semiconductor technology—one he can’t win.| The Atlantic
The president is considering bonuses for many service members.| The Atlantic
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout.| The Atlantic
The series that stood out in a year of noise| The Atlantic
Mystery surrounds planning for what happens if Maduro falls.| The Atlantic
Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankind’s phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary succe...| The Atlantic
An old disagreement over how to teach children to read -- whole-language versus phonics -- has re-emerged in California, in a new form. Previously confined largely to education, the dispute is now a full-fledged political issue there, and is likely to become one in other states.| The Atlantic
A social platform can’t scale without attracting normal users.| The Atlantic
Gender, rather than race or age or immigration status, has become the country’s sharpest social fault line.| The Atlantic
The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.| The Atlantic
A once-ubiquitous feature of floor plans is becoming a rarity.| The Atlantic
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Tamar Adler’s food writing doubles as a philosophy of kitchen scraps.| The Atlantic
In his new book, Kim Stanley Robinson grounds himself firmly on Earth and explores the beauty of the High Sierra mountains.| The Atlantic
Corporations and private-equity funds have been rolling up smaller chains and previously independent practices.| The Atlantic
A judge has ruled that mothers and fathers can try to recover wages they lost from staying home to take care of their kids.| The Atlantic
Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.| The Atlantic
In a time of fentanyl and meth, we need to use law enforcement differently—and more often.| The Atlantic
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