Trump’s Visit to China - The Atlantic
Panelists joined to discuss what the summit in Beijing may mean for the U.S. and China.| The Atlantic
Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump - The Atlantic
In Beijing, a lame-duck president personified the decline of American power.| The Atlantic
How to Read Like a Child Again
These stories can restore a sense of wonder adults quietly lose.| The Atlantic
The Art Lover’s Dilemma
The Venice Biennale is excessive, at times preposterous. But it can still yield moments of profundity.| The Atlantic
They Don’t Make Celebrities Like Michael Jackson Anymore
The success of Michael suggests that audiences are nostalgic for a universal kind of fame that’s rare today.| The Atlantic
The Warnings I Almost Didn’t Heed
For a lifetime, I dismissed my body’s complaints. Then came ovarian cancer.| The Atlantic
My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon
Education games are taking over American classrooms.| The Atlantic
The Protein Shortage Is Coming
Making all that whey is complicated.| The Atlantic
Stephen Miller’s New Recusals
The top White House adviser has stepped back from AI, space, and the Paramount merger.| The Atlantic
Trump’s Latest Gaffes Could Hurt the GOP
The president won’t face voters again, but Republican midterm candidates will have to deal with the consequences of his latest comments.| The Atlantic
Are You Enjoying Your Girl Rights Yet?
They’re like regular rights, just skimpier.| The Atlantic
A Checkers Player Meets a Three-Dimensional-Chess Master
Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping demonstrated the perils of shortsightedness when playing a long game.| The Atlantic
What’s the AI Endgame?
Chris Hayes on anxiety, automation, and how to emotionally survive the AI boom| The Atlantic
America Is the Land of Opportunity—For White South Africans - The Atlantic
Trump has frozen refugee admissions and cut off resettlement funding, but he has made an exception for white South Africans, who he says are victims of racial discrimination.| The Atlantic
Is Elon Musk Right About Big Government? - The Atlantic
Should Democrats work with Elon Musk?| The Atlantic
National Security - The Atlantic
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October 2025 Issue - The Atlantic
How originalism killed the Constitution, the greatest boxing match of all time, and what Iran will do next. Plus the invention of Judd Apatow, America’s public servants deserved better, John Cheever’s secrets, The Tale of Genji, the genius of Taylor Swift, a Spinal Tap reboot, Lisette Model’s jazz images, and more.| The Atlantic
A New Theory of American Foreign Policy - The Atlantic
The United States can—and must—wield its power for good.| The Atlantic
The Blob Meets the Heartland - The Atlantic
Foreign policy should work better for America’s middle class.| The Atlantic
William J. Burns: A Letter to America's Discarded Public Servants - The Atlantic
You all deserved better.| The Atlantic
The Classiest Late-Night Host
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert has balanced earnestness with pointed gags.| The Atlantic
The Best Graduation Speech Is One Nobody Remembers
The commencement speech is a ritual act, not an expressive one.| The Atlantic
The World Cup Worry List - The Atlantic
The World Cup will bring millions of visitors to the U.S. amid an “extremely high” threat level.| The Atlantic
Photos of the Week: Tractor Race, Rocket Festival, Drone Evacuation
A mass accordion performance in Slovenia, a tea harvest in China, the start of the Eurovision Song Contest week in Austria, a brush fire in Florida, and much more| The Atlantic
A Cautious New Approach to Trump’s Impeachments at the Smithsonian
The National Portrait Gallery reopened its presidents exhibit—but kept some details low-key.| The Atlantic
A Perfume With a Whiff of MAGA
Brittany Aldean’s Vada perfume codes conservative because she herself does.| The Atlantic
What Los Angeles Has Become
Spencer Pratt is the factory-reset option in the mayoral race.| The Atlantic
A New Kind of Family-Separation Crisis
At the airport in La Lima, Honduras, planeloads of people arrive every day—many without their children.| The Atlantic
Dinah’s Hat
A short story| The Atlantic
The Coming War on Local Black Political Power
The VRA’s demise could result in a hollowing out of Black political representation and influence, not only in Washington and in state capitals.| The Atlantic
Too Much Is Happening Too Fast
The AI boom is meant to overwhelm you.| The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s Inflationary Agenda
He was elected to tackle one problem. Instead, he’s made it worse.| The Atlantic
The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote - The Atlantic
A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.| The Atlantic
Pay Attention
Essential advice for the class of 2026| The Atlantic
Ron DeSantis took over a college in Florida. Now what? - The Atlantic
The populist right has portrayed New College as a notorious example of indoctrination in higher education—a narrative that does not withstand scrutiny.| The Atlantic
Sean Duffy Wants You to Take a Road Trip While Gas Prices Skyrocket - The Atlantic
The transportation secretary’s new reality show comes at an inopportune time.| The Atlantic
A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida - The Atlantic
The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem.| The Atlantic
Can America's Trains Handle the World Cup? - The Atlantic
The nation’s railway system is destined to lose.| The Atlantic
The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly - The Atlantic
Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.| The Atlantic
Why Reactionaries Are Taking Over the World - The Atlantic
Why reactionaries are taking over the world| The Atlantic
Stephen Miller in Retreat - The Atlantic
The once-powerful aide’s influence has quietly diminished.| The Atlantic
Checkmate in Iran - The Atlantic
Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.| The Atlantic
Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity - The Atlantic
Which is scarier: death or everlasting life?| The Atlantic
Peter Thiel’s ‘Fresh and Strange’ Ideas Are Certainly the Latter - The Atlantic
Peter Thiel is the latest pro-Trump luminary to take a conspiracist turn.| The Atlantic
Peter Meijer Voted to Impeach. Can He Survive in the GOP? - The Atlantic
After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the Republican Party away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own naïveté.| The Atlantic
The Rise of Emotional Surveillance - The Atlantic
Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.| The Atlantic
Trump’s Struggle to Find an Off-Ramp From the Iran War - The Atlantic
Panelists joined to discuss the questions surrounding the ongoing conflict, and more.| The Atlantic
Noah Hawley, The Atlantic
Noah Hawley is the creator of the FX series Fargo and Alien: Earth, and the author of the novel Anthem.| The Atlantic
Is Marco Rubio the Happiest Cabinet Member? - The Atlantic
While his colleagues deal with war and controversy, he’s laughing and talking in rap lyrics.| The Atlantic
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books - The Atlantic
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.| The Atlantic
The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A - The Atlantic
In the era of grade inflation, students at top colleges are more stressed than ever.| The Atlantic
What an Ivy League Education Really Gets You - The Atlantic
Economists have a new theory of why graduates of top colleges have so much career success.| The Atlantic
The Perverse Tyranny of a Perfect Transcript - The Atlantic
“Putting a perfect GPA in reach of so many students perversely deters them from taking classes that could threaten it,” Joshua Greene writes. “We should liberate our students from the tyranny of the impeccable transcript”:| The Atlantic
Hey, I Need to Talk to You About This Brilliant Obama Email Scheme - The Atlantic
Oh good, you clicked! Don't thank me. Thank the Obama campaign and its genius tinker-tailor-subject-line operation.| The Atlantic
How to Make Perfect Coffee - The Atlantic
The science of what makes coffee great| The Atlantic
My Role as a ‘Complicit’ Journalist - The Atlantic
Algorithms turn nuanced articles into rage bait that helps fuel political violence.| The Atlantic
The Era of Rational Discourse Is Over - The Atlantic
For Jürgen Habermas, who died in March, the essence of democracy was thoughtful back-and-forth argument.| The Atlantic
For a Time, the U.S. Protected Democracy - The Atlantic
A requiem for the Voting Rights Act| The Atlantic
The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ - The Atlantic
In a world full of distractions, getting your brain to focus on one thing at a time requires radical measures.| The Atlantic
Newsletters - The Atlantic
Sign up for The Atlantic’s newsletters to get our writers' commentary on politics, culture, and more in your inbox.| The Atlantic
Living Smaller - The Atlantic
Big houses may someday look as outdated and impractical as big cars, for many of the same reasons| The Atlantic
Other People's Houses - The Atlantic
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.| The Atlantic
Why Are American Houses So Big? - The Atlantic
The U.S. is in the top tier of house sizes internationally—and it’s not just because of McMansions.| The Atlantic
How Big Is the American Dream House? - The Atlantic
Millennials are abandoning the idea of living in a giant home.| The Atlantic
Remote Work Has Made Americans More Productive - The Atlantic
Telecommuting allows caregivers to manage a workload that is, if anything, way too big.| The Atlantic
Child Care Is Buckling - The Atlantic
The president’s broad policies are making a bad situation worse.| The Atlantic
Micah Lasher, Child Magician - The Atlantic
The race for New York’s Twelfth District keeps getting more interesting.| The Atlantic
‘Sordid and Small’
Matteo Wong, covering Musk v. Altman for The Atlantic (gift link):| Daring Fireball
The YOLO Presidency - The Atlantic
Trump is focused on becoming one of history’s “great men.”| The Atlantic
The Fall of the House of Assad - The Atlantic
A detached ruler, obsessed with sex and video games, refused every lifeline he was offered.| The Atlantic
A Ballroom Would Have Solved This - The Atlantic
Many historical disasters would have been prevented if we had one of these in the White House.| The Atlantic
So Nobody Is Going to Pay Taxes Now? - The Atlantic
America actually needs a tax base.| The Atlantic
Kipchoge's Sub-Two-Hour Marathon: How Legitimate Is It? - The Atlantic
History’s best marathoner has broken a mythical time barrier. But it doesn’t count as a world record.| The Atlantic
How the Two-Hour Marathon Was Broken - The Atlantic
The marathon’s impossible barrier was broken.| The Atlantic
After the Shooting, MAGA Is Unusually Quiet - The Atlantic
Instead of a crackdown on his enemies, Trump wants his ballroom.| The Atlantic
Vannevar Bush: As We May Think - The Atlantic
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”| The Atlantic
A Shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner - The Atlantic
The president is safe after chaos at the Washington Hilton, and a suspect is reportedly in custody.| The Atlantic
Altadena After the Fire - The Atlantic
The pain of one of the last middle-class towns in Los Angeles| The Atlantic
America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs - The Atlantic
Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?| The Atlantic
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years - The Atlantic
Ask yourself: Are you coal, or are you a horse?| The Atlantic
Trump to Change U.S. Evaluation of Palestinian Refugees - The Atlantic
The Trump administration’s reported plan to redefine who it considers a Palestinian refugee may further decrease its influence in the peace process.| The Atlantic
How Trump Voters Are Reacting to the Economy - The Atlantic
Panelists joined to discuss the president’s recent polling numbers, and more.| The Atlantic
Why Silicon Valley Is Turning to the Catholic Church - The Atlantic
Priests and theologians want to shape the future of AI. Big Tech is listening.| The Atlantic
Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job - The Atlantic
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.| The Atlantic
‘Michael’ Is a Botched Job - The Atlantic
A new biopic offers a warped and childish take on Michael Jackson’s life.| The Atlantic
Alireza Taghdarreh: A Mother's Day Appreciation, From Tehran - The Atlantic
She walked me to school, and set me on the path to the rest of my life.| The Atlantic
An Iranian Scholar Visits the U.S. After the Nuclear Deal - The Atlantic
Why it matters if people from one culture feel connected with people from another| The Atlantic
Hanya Yanagihara's 'A Little Life': The Great Gay Novel Might Be Here - The Atlantic
Hanya Yanagihara’s novel is an astonishing and ambitious chronicle of queer life in America.| The Atlantic
The Woman Who Made Online Dating Into a ‘Science’ - The Atlantic
Almost 20 years ago, Helen Fisher helped revolutionize dating. She has no regrets.| The Atlantic
A Dating-App Nightmare - The Atlantic
Millions of Americans connect online, but do they know who is receiving their messages?| The Atlantic
The Fantasy of a Nonprofit Dating App - The Atlantic
Imagine if digital matchmakers had no financial incentives.| The Atlantic