Kevin McCarthy Meets His Fate

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 12:11pm

He was living on borrowed time

The Hard Lesson of Mogadishu

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 4:50am

Thirty years after the events dramatized in Black Hawk Down US Special Forces have evolvedby accepting that defeat can be a better tutor tha...

The Care and Feeding of Supreme Court Justices

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 4:16am

From lavish vacations to fancy dinners conservative activists have constructed an elaborate infrastructure to reward ideological loyalty on ...

The Trumpy Marriage of the UFC and WWE

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 2:34am

Two new books explore two very different versions of fighting in the ring now joined together

The Smartest Man Who Ever Lived

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 2:00am

A novelist transforms the physicist John von Neumann into a scientific demon

College Isnt Worth It Is a Luxury Belief

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 2:00am

Despite the growing backlash to American higher education most young people are still far better off getting a four-year degree

The Biggest Problem Human Ancestors Had to Solve

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 2:00am

In order to populate the globe early hominins had to invent gynecology

Telling the Truth About Taiwan

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/3/23 at 1:00am

On a recent visit a series of conversations brought home to me just how pernicious our falsehoods have been

Why the GOP Extremists Oppose Ukraine

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 1:21pm

The budget fight was about vice signaling not spending

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Doesn't Find Contemporary Fiction Very Interesting

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 11:59am

The author of Americanah explains why freedom of expression is crucial to writers

Winners of the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2023

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 7:31am

Some of the best images from a competition celebrating the natural world

Californias Math Misadventure Is About to Go National

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 6:10am

The fight over math in the Golden States public schools is likely to spread across the country

The Adult Lessons of Daniel Clowes

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 4:46am

The cartoonist has written some of the great haters slackers and screwups in modern comics His new graphic novel imagines if one of them gre...

The Iliad Weve Lost

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 2:00am

Emily Wilsons new translation is inviting to modern readers but doesnt capture the barbaric world of the original

How Big Money Hurt American Feminism

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 2:00am

The history of NOW reveals the costs of donation-driven activism

Artists Are Losing the War Against AI

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/2/23 at 2:00am

OpenAI has introduced a tool for artists to keep their images from training future AI programs It may not make a difference

The Classic Cars of My Youth

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/1/23 at 3:00am

Enough with Boomer nostalgia for shiny chrome and mad speed Lets celebrate a generation of old automobiles to suit our more sober constraine...

A Crucial Barrier Against Hurricanes Is at Risk

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/1/23 at 3:00am

Sand dunes can protect the coastline from the effects of climate change But theyre vulnerable to intense storms

Love Is Not Always Song but the Swelling

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/1/23 at 3:00am

A poem for Sunday

A 90s Blockbuster That Holds Up

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/1/23 at 3:00am

Entertainment musts from Olga Khazan

NFL Meet Taylor Swift

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/1/23 at 2:31am

The celebrity-gossip-industrial complex is about to crash into the savagery of sports media Cover your eyes

A Satanic Rebellion

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/1/23 at 2:30am

Social justice collides with the Satanic Temple

Kevin McCarthy Finally Defies the Right

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/30/23 at 12:52pm

The speaker made a last-minute reversal to avert a government shutdown It could cost him his job

How the US Ended Up on the Brink of Government Shutdown

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/30/23 at 12:00pm

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The Supreme Court Cases That Could Redefine the Internet

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/30/23 at 6:00am

What does freedom of speech actually mean on social media Were about to find out

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