Politico, Pundits Refuse to End the War on Nate Silver - The Atlantic
Only one doubter remains: Dylan Byers, the media reporter at Politico, who called asked if Silver was a one-term celebrity and is now clinging to the deafening noise of punditry to combat the unstoppable number wizard.| The Atlantic
The Rise of AI Taylor Swift - The Atlantic
Fans are using AI tools to synthesize the star’s voice, demonstrating how new technology is blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction.| The Atlantic
Mars Is a Hellhole - The Atlantic
Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.| The Atlantic
DOGE Has 'God Mode' Access to Government Data - The Atlantic
The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies.| The Atlantic
What I Saw in the Darién Gap - The Atlantic
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.| The Atlantic
How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter - The Atlantic
There’s more than one way to sink a social network.| The Atlantic
How An Epilepsy Treatment Shaped Our Understanding of Consciousness - The Atlantic
How a radical epilepsy treatment in the early 20th century paved the way for modern-day understandings of perception, consciousness, and the self| The Atlantic
Ideas - The Atlantic
News analysis, essays, and reporting from the The Atlantic’s journalists and contributing writers.| The Atlantic
Andrew Anglin: The Making of an American Nazi - The Atlantic
How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?| 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
How Donald Trump Could Subvert the 2024 Election - The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s next coup has already begun—and today’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert future elections.| The Atlantic
Why It's Best to Start Sex Ed When Kids Are Young - The Atlantic
In the Netherlands, one of the world’s most gender-equal countries, kids learn about sex and bodies starting at age 4.| The Atlantic
A Food that Transcends Cultures: The History of the Meatball - The Atlantic
The hearty Olive Garden staple is a far cry from the dish that Italian immigrants first brought to the United States.| The Atlantic
How to Deal With Trolls - The Atlantic
Online jerks and offline jerks are largely one and the same. Here’s how to keep them from affecting your happiness.| The Atlantic
Family - The Atlantic
The Atlantic covers issues related to family, relationships, parenting, friendships, sex, and more.| The Atlantic
The Pandemic is Making the Suburbs Even More Appealing - The Atlantic
Suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better.| The Atlantic
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Creation of Central Park - The Atlantic
How Frederick Law Olmsted changed the way Americans think of public space| The Atlantic
The Pandemic Isn’t Over for Immunocompromised People - The Atlantic
What does society owe immunocompromised people?| The Atlantic
Are Dinner Parties, Movies, and Restaurants Safe Again? - The Atlantic
As Omicron recedes, the COVID-cautious can reassess what’s possible. It’s time to figure out a way to live that feels sustainable in the long term.| The Atlantic
How to Stop Your Job From Becoming Your Identity - The Atlantic
Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.| The Atlantic
Planning Friend Hangouts on Google Calendar - The Atlantic
To avoid the dreaded back-and-forth of coordinating hangouts, some friends are repurposing the shared digital calendar, a workplace staple, to plan their personal lives.| The Atlantic
Trump and Musk Are Pushing for Regime Change - The Atlantic
How regime change happens in America| The Atlantic
Why Trump Chose Gaetz, Hegseth, and Gabbard: Retribution - The Atlantic
The president-elect’s most controversial Cabinet picks share one crucial tie.| The Atlantic
Donald Trump is a national-security risk - The Atlantic
The GOP candidate should not be given intelligence briefings.| The Atlantic
What Happened to Michael Flynn? - The Atlantic
In military intelligence, he was renowned for his skill connecting the dots and finding terrorists. But somewhere along the way, his dot detector began spinning out of control.| The Atlantic
Annie Dillard's Classic Essay 'Total Eclipse' - The Atlantic
"Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him."| The Atlantic
December 2024 Issue - The Atlantic
How the Ivy League broke America, a Japanese boxer on death row, Nick Cave, and the dark origins of Impressionism. Plus building a Palestinian state, Jimmy O. Yang, Lucy Calkins, Handel's Messiah, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, eating with the Grateful Dead, and more.| The Atlantic
The Tesla Revolt - The Atlantic
The company’s fate will reveal how strong the foundation of Elon Musk’s influence really is.| The Atlantic
What Makes People Reply to One Email Over Another? - The Atlantic
You want to write messages that are short and sweet—but not too short or too sweet.| The Atlantic
The Not-So-Woke Generation Z - The Atlantic
The same young people once derided as liberal snowflakes are moving to the right.| The Atlantic
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.| The Atlantic
Why the Male Pill Still Doesn't Exist - The Atlantic
Despite decades of research, it’s still only women who deal with the daily annoyances of contraceptive medication.| The Atlantic
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - The Atlantic
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.| The Atlantic
In Finland, Learning Matters More Than Education - The Atlantic
How an American teacher's visit to Finland reminded her of the importance of play—for kindergartners and high-schoolers alike| The Atlantic
Finnish Education Chief: 'We Created a School System Based on Equality' - The Atlantic
An interview with the country's minister of education, Krista Kiuru| The Atlantic
How to Pick a Job That Will Actually Make You Happy - The Atlantic
Your job doesn’t have to represent the most prestigious use of your potential. It just needs to be rewarding.| The Atlantic
A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems - The Atlantic
The U.S. doesn’t have enough COVID tests—or houses, immigrants, physicians, or solar panels. We need an abundance agenda.| The Atlantic
Beneath the Cloud - The Atlantic
Exploring what the Internet is made of| The Atlantic
The Ig Nobel Prize and Other Efforts to Eradicate Complex Academic Writing - The Atlantic
A new movement strives for simplicity.| The Atlantic
Why Tall People Make More Money - The Atlantic
Being tall comes with a host of financial and professional perks.| The Atlantic
How Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free Play - The Atlantic
An American teacher in Helsinki questioned the national practice of giving 15 minute breaks each hour—until he saw the difference it made in his classroom.| The Atlantic
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All - The Atlantic
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.| The Atlantic
Podcasts - The Atlantic
Listen to The Atlantic’s deep storytelling and conversations wherever you are with podcasts such as The Experiment, Floodlines, and more.| The Atlantic
Why Some Neighborhoods Are Safer Than Others - The Atlantic
The unexpected origins of gun crime| The Atlantic
The Coming Attack on No-Fault Divorce Laws - The Atlantic
No-fault divorce has improved the lives of millions. Now some extreme Republicans want to abandon it.| The Atlantic
Nicole Chung: My Dad Died ‘a Common American Death’ - The Atlantic
It is hard for me not to think of my father’s death as a kind of negligent homicide, facilitated and sped by the United States’ broken safety net and strained systems of care.| The Atlantic
Hybrid Work Is Doomed - The Atlantic
Office workers work in offices, for better or for worse.| The Atlantic
Why Reading Books in High School Matters - The Atlantic
You’ll understand when you’re older.| The Atlantic
David Frum: How Much Immigration Is Too Much? - The Atlantic
We need to make hard decisions now about what will truly benefit current and future Americans.| The Atlantic
Biden’s Climate Goals Rest on the Defense Production Act - The Atlantic
The Defense Production Act has become an important tool as the White House’s climate policy has stalled in Congress.| The Atlantic
We Need a New Science of Progress - The Atlantic
Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better.| The Atlantic
Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage - The Atlantic
The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace.| The Atlantic
Everyone’s Over Instagram - The Atlantic
The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media.| The Atlantic
Why the Crime Wave Is a Disaster for Progressives - The Atlantic
There’s no reason to accept this level of violence and suffering.| The Atlantic
BlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing Market - The Atlantic
The real villain isn’t a faceless Wall Street Goliath; it’s your neighbors and local governments stopping the construction of new units.| The Atlantic
We Programmed ChatGPT Into This Article - The Atlantic
Please don’t embarrass us, robots.| The Atlantic
AI Is Ushering in a Textpocalypse - The Atlantic
Our relationship to writing is about to change forever; it may not end well.| The Atlantic
A Poem by Franny Choi: Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness - The Atlantic
A poem for Sunday| The Atlantic
What It's Like to Be a Paramedic - The Atlantic
Jason Hernandez of Fort Worth, Texas, talks about the demands of his job.| The Atlantic
Patrick Wyman: Trump and the American Gentry - The Atlantic
The jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies.| The Atlantic
Is Trump Trying to Stage a Coup? - The Atlantic
Acting as if Trump is trying to stage a coup is the best way to ensure he won’t.| The Atlantic
Voters Wanted Lower Prices at Any Cost - The Atlantic
Kamala Harris couldn’t outrun inflation.| The Atlantic
Why Afghan Refugees Aren’t Actually Welcome in California - The Atlantic
All the lawn signs in the world won’t change the fact that housing costs are impossibly high for most refugees.| The Atlantic
The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.| The Atlantic
Why Are Millions of Prime-Age Men Missing From the Economy? - The Atlantic
Millions of men in the prime of their lives are missing from the labor force. Could a big U.S. housing construction project bring them back?| The Atlantic
How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis - The Atlantic
Kate Lindsay on TikTok, the influencer trickle-down, and what social media breaks in our brains| The Atlantic
Welcome To Galaxy Brain 2.0! - The Atlantic
You live in interesting times. Galaxy Brain wants to help.| The Atlantic
The Democrats’ Dashed Hopes in Iowa - The Atlantic
As in many other areas across the country, Kamala Harris could not match Joe Biden’s 2020 performance.| The Atlantic
Trump’s Return - The Atlantic
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The Institutions Failed - The Atlantic
They didn’t hold during Trump’s first term. Don’t be fooled into a false sense of security.| The Atlantic
Science - The Atlantic
Science coverage from The Atlantic, featuring reporting on the natural world, the cosmos, the climate, the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.| The Atlantic
X Is a White-Supremacist Site - The Atlantic
Elon Musk has made one of Twitter’s most glaring problems into a core feature on X.| The Atlantic
Tech's New Frontier Raises a “Buffet of Unwanted Questions” - The Atlantic
If tools like DALL-E 2 really are the next great leap, it’s worth thinking about who owns that future, and what we want it to look like.| The Atlantic
The Petty Pleasures of Watching Crypto Profiteers Flounder - The Atlantic
Behind all the Web3 bluster is just “hollow abstraction.”| The Atlantic
Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse - The Atlantic
A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities| The Atlantic
The End of Manual Transmission - The Atlantic
Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost.| The Atlantic
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How to Make Your Friendships Deeper - The Atlantic
If your social life is leaving you unfulfilled, you might have too many deal friends, and not enough real friends.| The Atlantic
Russian Artist Serebrennikov—And Russian Culture—On Trial In Moscow - The Atlantic
Embezzlement charges against a leading Russian theater director come amidst a growing cultural crackdown that mirrors the country’s Soviet past.| The Atlantic
The End of Reality - The Atlantic
The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint.| The Atlantic
The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral - The Atlantic
The special counsel has concluded he can neither charge nor clear the president. Only Congress can now resolve the allegations against him.| The Atlantic
Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly - The Atlantic
Donald Trump might miss the bureaucrats when the next crisis hits.| The Atlantic
Letters From Presidents to Their Successors - The Atlantic
Each one reminds us what a peaceful—and gracious—transfer of power looks like.| The Atlantic
America Is Choking Under an ‘Everything Shortage’ - The Atlantic
The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive.| The Atlantic
The People Building AI Don’t Know What It Will Do Next - The Atlantic
Call it tech’s optical-illusion era: Not even the experts know exactly what will come next in the AI revolution.| The Atlantic
Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks - The Atlantic
After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.| The Atlantic
The Unfulfilled Promise of the Fair Housing Act - The Atlantic
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an integrated America was about creating a more equal society, but to many white homeowners, it was a threat.| The Atlantic
Politics - The Atlantic
Analysis and reporting from The Atlantic on the Biden administration, Congress, the Supreme Court, and key elections.| The Atlantic
Trump’s First Shot in His War on the 'Deep State' - The Atlantic
The president is punishing a group of former officials for expressing an opinion he didn’t like.| The Atlantic
Trump’s ‘Deep State’ Revenge - The Atlantic
The president-elect has long demonized intelligence officers and other federal employees. This is how he might come for them.| The Atlantic
FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge - The Atlantic
Seasoned members of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency are bracing for a mass expulsion as the president roots out anyone he sees as disloyal to him.| The Atlantic
The CDC Is Altering Data to Follow Trump’s DEI Order - The Atlantic
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.| The Atlantic
The Difference Between TikTok and Free Expression - The Atlantic
The algorithmic manipulation of users’ attention is not the same thing as actual human speech.| The Atlantic