I Tried to Live Like Joe Rogan - The Atlantic
He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.| The Atlantic
The Shopping Method That Isn’t Going Anywhere
Some brands are returning to the print catalog to sell things on their terms.| The Atlantic
Why That Chatbot Is So Good at Imitating Bart Simpson
Inside the Hollywood writing that fuels generative AI.| The Atlantic
<em>Gladiator II </em>Is More Than Just a Spectacle
Ridley Scott’s ancient-Roman epic manages to find some beauty amid the savagery.| The Atlantic
The #MeToo Cabinet
And the incoming administration doesn’t seem to mind at all.| The Atlantic
What a 16-Year-Old Doesn’t Yet Know
Cher’s memoir is a valuable document of a young girl thrust into the adult world.| The Atlantic
The Cases Against Trump: A Guide
Thirty-four felony convictions. Charges of fraud, election subversion, and obstruction. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles.| The Atlantic
Pam Bondi’s Comeback
In 2017, Pam Bondi was passed over as too scandal-tainted. This time, she’s the safe, acceptable fallback choice.| The Atlantic
Photos of the Week: Bomb Cyclone, Rainbow Hills, Park Hawk
Christmas decorations in England, a virtual taekwondo championship in Singapore, a mummified saber-toothed tiger cub in Russia, a new volcanic eruption in Iceland, and much more| The Atlantic
The Case Against Spinning Off Chrome
There are better ways to address Google’s dominance.| The Atlantic
A Good Country’s Bad Choice
And what I got wrong about the 2024 election| The Atlantic
The Trump-Trumpist Divide
The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.| The Atlantic
Trump Wants to Have It Both Ways on Education
He says he wants to give power back to the states, but has also signaled his intention to align American schools with his own cultural agenda.| The Atlantic
One Food to Change the World
The bean has the potential to remake American diets, but it has an image problem.| The Atlantic
Trump’s First Defeat
Matt Gaetz has officially withdrawn from being considered for attorney general.| The Atlantic
The Celebrity Look-Alike Contest Boom
Suddenly, these events are everywhere. What’s going on?| The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick
Pete Hegseth considers himself to be at war with basically everybody to Trump’s left, and it is by no means clear that he means war metaphorically.| The Atlantic
Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker
You don’t have to become a Buddhist monk to realize the value of contemplating hard questions without clear answers.| The Atlantic
Trump Is Building the Most Anti-Semitic Cabinet in Decades
Donald Trump has vowed to “defeat anti-Semitism.” His Cabinet picks tell a very different story.| The Atlantic
In Search of a Faith Beyond Religion
Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Deborah suggests that some people must look outside the traditional bounds of Christianity to find true spiritual freedom.| The Atlantic
Cher Has a History Lesson for Us All
The singer has long stood for a brassy, strutting kind of survival. Her new account of her early life explains how that came to be.| The Atlantic
The Most Coveted Screenshot in the Literary World
It’s what proves you’re a “real” writer.| The Atlantic
What Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is Really About
Revenge on the military is just the start of it.| The Atlantic
Why Oz Is the Doctor Trump Ordered
Nothing about Trump 2.0 is mere bluster.| The Atlantic
What the Men of the Internet Are Trying to Prove
Jake Paul is an emblem of a generation starving for purpose while gorging on spectacle.| The Atlantic
Another Theory of the Trump Movement
Who else but Sigmund Freud to help explain?| The Atlantic
A Reader's Manifesto - The Atlantic
An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose| The Atlantic
The Books Briefing: Kai Bird - The Atlantic
A conversation with Kai Bird, a co-writer of the mammoth biography from which the new film is adapted| The Atlantic
How Government Learned to Waste Your Time - The Atlantic
A six-month wait for unemployment insurance. A paperwork nightmare over an insurance reimbursement. Drug tests for cash benefits. Why is there so much red tape in American life?| The Atlantic
The Conspiracy Theory That Burned a Convent Down - The Atlantic
Moral panics repeat, again and again.| The Atlantic
Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out - The Atlantic
Too much aloneness is creating a crisis of social fitness.| The Atlantic
What Reagan Did for Hollywood - The Atlantic
When he was president of the Screen Actor's Guild, Reagan staged a showdown with studio execs| The Atlantic
America’s Dysfunction Has Two Main Causes - The Atlantic
History suggests how to stave it off.| The Atlantic
Americans Around the Country Describe Their American Dream - The Atlantic
Who still believes in the American Dream?| The Atlantic
Education - The Atlantic
Read news and insights on schools, education, learning, and important issues for parents and educators.| The Atlantic
Michael Bloomberg: 'I Have Earned My Place in Heaven' - The Atlantic
The former New York City mayor is confident that his latest $50 million gun-control initiative has secured him a happy afterlife.| The Atlantic
The Non-Thai Origins of Pad Thai - The Atlantic
How did foreign cuisine become Thailand's national dish?| The Atlantic
Introducing ‘Being Human’
The Atlantic expands health coverage with new section, reporting on the body, mind, and how we live| The Atlantic
Put Down the Vacuum
Americans need to get off the tidiness treadmill.| The Atlantic
The ‘Breast-Cancer Gene’ Needs a Rebrand
BRCA mutations can lead to cancer in the pancreas, prostate, and maybe more parts of the body.| The Atlantic
We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines
Empowering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will test one of American public health’s greatest successes.| The Atlantic
A Ridiculous, Perfect Way to Make Friends
Group fitness classes aren’t just about exercise.| The Atlantic
The Problem With Boycotting Israel
Writers should build bridges instead of walls.| The Atlantic
Apple Lost the Plot on Texting
A new feature uses AI to summarize push notifications. It sounds great until you actually try it.| The Atlantic
What Going ‘Wild on Health’ Looks Like
The potential consequences of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s most troubling ideas| The Atlantic
Your Armpits Are Trying to Tell You Something
The best time to apply antiperspirant is right before bed. Seriously.| The Atlantic
I Used to Have Friends. Then They Had Kids.
How do I rebuild my broken social life?| The Atlantic
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.| The Atlantic
Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines
Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.| The Atlantic
<em>Say Nothing</em> Goes Beyond Good vs. Evil
A terrific drama captures the struggle of separating who you are from what you fight for.| The Atlantic
The ‘Democracy’ Gap
Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.| The Atlantic
Washington Is Shocked
Just shocked, I tell you.| The Atlantic
The Three Pillars of the Bro-Economy
Day-trading, sports betting, and crypto are about to get bigger.| The Atlantic
Falling in Love With Reading Will Change Your Life
Readers respond to our November 2024 issue and more.| The Atlantic
Was Agriculture the Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
Did it solve scarcity or create it?| The Atlantic
The <em>Atlantic</em> Gift Guide
The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love.| The Atlantic
The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon - The Atlantic
A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a "radical departure" for the risk-averse intelligence community.| The Atlantic
QR Codes for the Dead - The Atlantic
Graveyards are becoming smart spaces, but will today's technology last for eternity?| The Atlantic
The Problem of the West - The Atlantic
“It has been, and is, preëminently a region of ideals, mistaken or not.”| The Atlantic
The Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable - The Atlantic
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.| The Atlantic
Ideas - The Atlantic
News analysis, essays, and reporting from the The Atlantic’s journalists and contributing writers.| The Atlantic
A Muslim Among Israeli Settlers - The Atlantic
What happens when a Pakistani American writer goes deep into the West Bank?| The Atlantic
The End of Netanyahu - The Atlantic
He sold Israelis a story about their safety. It turned out not to be true.| The Atlantic
A Close Read of Hamas’s Hostage-Taking Manual - The Atlantic
The document, which I obtained from an Israeli official, also suggests that Hamas did not plan to take hostages back to Gaza.| The Atlantic
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid - The Atlantic
It’s not just a phase.| The Atlantic
The Senate Exists for a Reason
These four Trump picks should be stopped.| The Atlantic
Drought Is an Immigration Issue
And Trump's climate policies are designed to ignore that.| The Atlantic
How Trump Could Make Congress Go Away for a While
An untested provision in the Constitution might allow him to install his Cabinet picks no matter what the Senate has to say.| The Atlantic
This Is What Record-Breaking Bad Air Looks Like
Recent images of the record-setting smog blanketing the area| The Atlantic
He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.
Each day for 50 years, the Japanese boxer Iwao Hakamada woke up unsure whether it would be his last.| The Atlantic
Why Are Dogs So Obsessed With Lamb Chop?
In a market with thousands of toys, somehow the 1960s puppet has become ubiquitous.| The Atlantic
‘Trump Has Won, but Democracy Is Not Over’
Tom Nichols, for The Atlantic:| Daring Fireball
Cancel Amazon Prime, Not ‘The Washington Post’ - The Atlantic
The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.| The Atlantic
June 2018 Issue - The Atlantic
A Muslim among Israeli settlers, the pearl at the center of an 80-year-old hoax, Marti Noxon putting women’s rage on TV, and pop culture’s response to Trump. Plus, Kissinger on AI and the end of humanity, an interview with Seth Meyers, the search for life on Mars, NRATV, and more.| The Atlantic
'Stealth Wealth' Is a Fake Trend - The Atlantic
“Stealth wealth” may be the next big thing in fashion. Or maybe everyone’s spending too much time on TikTok.| The Atlantic
How Fiverr and Online Gig Platforms Create Competition - The Atlantic
How digital platforms are increasing competition for lots of different types of work| The Atlantic
The Justice System Still Has a Chance to Sentence Trump - The Atlantic
An election is not a jury verdict, and winning an election doesn’t make you any less guilty.| The Atlantic
Parasocial Relationships Are Just Imaginary Friends for Adults - The Atlantic
If you get too invested in a fake friendship, your real ones might suffer.| The Atlantic
Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Court - The Atlantic
Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.| The Atlantic
The Perverse Logic of Trump’s Nomination Circus - The Atlantic
The sheer quantity of individually unqualified selections might make blocking any of them harder.| The Atlantic
AI’s Fingerprints Were All Over the Election - The Atlantic
But deepfakes and disinformation weren’t the main issues.| The Atlantic
J. D. Vance’s Empty Nationalism - The Atlantic
To believe that “people will not fight for abstractions” is to forget what makes America special.| The Atlantic
Culture - The Atlantic
Culture coverage from The Atlantic, featuring TV, movie, and book reviews, and critical commentary on the cultural movements that matter.| The Atlantic
Dear James: How Can I Find More Satisfaction in Work? - The Atlantic
My job consumes and torments me. There has to be a better way.| The Atlantic
What I Ate Growing Up With the Grateful Dead - The Atlantic
Memories of the meals I ate growing up with the Grateful Dead| The Atlantic
Israel’s Changing War - The Atlantic
The Israeli high command now sees all of its conflicts as elements of a single, multifront war with Iran.| The Atlantic
The Forgotten Joy of Hanging Out in ‘Third Places’ - The Atlantic
We need physical spaces for serendipitous, productivity-free conversation.| The Atlantic
'Between the World and Me' by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”| The Atlantic
What crypto wants from Trump - The Atlantic
With a crypto-friendly president-elect and a Congress stacked with crypto supporters, the industry is getting closer to its ultimate goals.| The Atlantic
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’ - The Atlantic
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.| The Atlantic
Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk - The Atlantic
The Senate can stop her.| The Atlantic
How Lucy Calkins Became the Face of America’s Reading Crisis - The Atlantic
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she reclaim her good name?| The Atlantic
The Real Lessons of the Alabama IVF Ruling - The Atlantic
The regulation of the fertility industry is strangely underdeveloped, leaving parents, children, clinics, and practitioners lacking even basic information, protections, and boundaries.| The Atlantic
Don’t Give Up on the Truth - The Atlantic
Striking out against injustice is always right; it always matters.| The Atlantic
The Case Against Perfection - The Atlantic
What's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering| The Atlantic
How the ‘Owner’s Guide’ Became a Rare Book - The Atlantic
A good manual is hard to find.| The Atlantic