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Matt Gaetz has officially withdrawn from being considered for attorney general.| The Atlantic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

The Obvious Answer to Homelessness - The Atlantic

And why everyone’s ignoring it| 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

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic

What the Internet is doing to our brains| 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

Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? - The Atlantic

The sound of gentrification is silence.| 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

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

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