Its the Best Time in History to Have a Migraine

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So why doesnt it feel that way

Baseball the Eternal Game Shouldnt Be Shortened

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Readers respond to our JulyAugust 2023 cover story and more

Nixon Between the Lines

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Alone in his study ballpoint pen in hand the president revealed himself in the margins of his books

Gay Talese I Wanted to Write About Nobodies

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Growing up in a small town on the Jersey Shore in the late 1940s I dreamed of someday working for a great newspaper But I did not necessaril...

Tolstoy Was Wrong About Happy Families

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/19/23 at 2:00am

In Loved and Missed Susie Boyt presents the story of a woman raising a child and the surprising reality of just how pleasurable it all is

Americans Are Sleepwalking Through a National Emergency

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 1:44pm

Serious times require serious citizens

Oktoberfest 2023 Scenes From the Opening Weekend

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 7:49am

Early images from the 188th Oktoberfest in Munich Germany

Parent Diplomacy Is Overwhelming Teachers

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 7:09am

And its only getting worse

Why Cats Are Getting COVID Drugs on This Island

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 4:40am

Leftover medications are going to save the animals from a deadly feline coronavirus

Airbnbs Original Sin

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 3:00am

At this point the company hardly seems part of the gig economy at all

The Whiteboy Brooklyn Novelist Grows Up

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:31am

Jonathan Lethems Brooklyn Crime Novel presents a story of gentrification without sentimentality

Trojan-Horse White Supremacy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:30am

Richard Hananias new book is a gateway drug for extremism

The Prime Minister and the Moonies

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:00am

The bizarre story behind the assassination of Shinzo Abe

The Overlooked Danger Thats Massacring Wildlife

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:00am

A new book argues that theres nothing worse for wild animals than cars

Why Marriages Matter

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:00am

Two-parent households should be a policy goal

Why the Lefts Version of the Federalist Society Failed

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:00am

My biggest regret from a career in progressive legal activism

The Agony of the School Car Line

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:00am

Its crazy-making and deeply inefficient

What to Do When Your Political Party Loses Its Mind

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/18/23 at 2:00am

I was a Conservative until Boris Johnson expelled me It was a painful experience but heres what Ive learned

Why the President of Iran Does Not Deserve Dialogue

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/17/23 at 8:56am

No one who cares about justice should sit down to chat with a mass murderer

My Mother Survived the Nazis My Father Survived the Soviets

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/17/23 at 3:00am

Yet the USSR was never held accountable for its war crimes

The Quest to Build a Better Birdhouse

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/17/23 at 3:00am

The classic wooden ones arent quite cutting it Conservationists are now turning to 3-D printing and augmented reality

Mozarts Most Metal Moment

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/17/23 at 3:00am

Entertainment musts from Annie Lowrey

All Our Pretty Sons

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/17/23 at 3:00am

A poem for Sunday

How the NFL Talks About Race Behind Closed Doors

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/17/23 at 2:30am

The leagues public-relations spin about diversity doesnt hold up in private

Confronting the Unbelievable

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/17/23 at 2:00am

A photograph that dramatizes the power of nature

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