A Backbone for the Book Business

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/7/23 at 2:31am

A new PEN report calls on publishers to stop canceling books

The Burden of Proof Is on the Language Police

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/7/23 at 2:30am

Claims that specific terms hurt people should be evaluated in a rigorous waynot based only on hunches

Here Comes the Second Year of AI College

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/7/23 at 2:00am

Universities still arent sure whether to embrace the technology or ban it

The Ones We Sent Away

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/7/23 at 1:00am

I thought my mother was an only child I was wrong

The Weaponization of Loneliness

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/7/23 at 1:00am

To defend America against those who would exploit our social disconnection we need to rebuild our communities

In College Football Players Arent the Greedy Ones

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/6/23 at 3:40am

What colleges relentless drive for more television revenue is doing to the sport

The Rights War Against Universities

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/6/23 at 3:00am

American conservatives are taking cues from Hungarys Viktor Orbán because elite education is a convenient enemy for authoritarian populists

A Sweet Surrealistic TV Show

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/6/23 at 3:00am

Entertainment musts from Morgan Ome

The Unspoken Language of Crosswords

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/6/23 at 3:00am

Solvers must develop strong intuitions about what entries are possible and how they can be clued

Tables and Gems

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/6/23 at 2:00am

held and unheld here in love having been accused of telling stories look how violently we fold and tint and follow haze come into branch and...

A Big Week for Floating Rocks

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/5/23 at 12:35pm

A physicist explains LK-99 and the appeal of unidentified superconducting objects

The Psychological Terms We Misuse

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/5/23 at 3:35am

Boundaries gaslight attachment style and other jargon that gets misinterpreted online

Behold the Cynical Skittle

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/5/23 at 3:00am

Candy has become a pseudo-event produced not to be eaten but to be talked about

Millions of People Are Losing Health Care Because of Paperwork

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/5/23 at 3:00am

The end of a pandemic-era rule requiring continuous Medicaid coverage is causing a slow-burning crisis

What ltemgtBarbieltemgt Understands About Mother-Daughter Relationships

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/5/23 at 2:00am

Im a child psychiatrist Heres what Barbie got right

America Needs a New Way to Measure Poverty

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/5/23 at 2:00am

What the data show about the countrys poorest places

When Alabama Killed Jimi Barber

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 1:24pm

Elizabeth Bruenig on what happens now that after a year of botched procedures the state has executed a man without incident

Western Diplomats Need to Stop Whining About Ukraine

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 10:30am

Allies can be exasperating But try being invaded by your neighbor and lectured by everyone else

Living in Phoenix Makes Perfect Sense

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 7:36am

Why people keep moving to the hottest city in America

Youre Probably Drinking Enough Water

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 7:29am

If you're a healthy person worried about hydration odds are you're getting plenty But no one can say exactly what the right amount is

The Next Test for the Abortion-Rights Movement

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 7:04am

Republicans are trying to make it harder to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio Will voters go along

Reading in the Dog Days of Summer

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 6:00am

Dive back into our summer reading list for some new suggestions

ltemgtPassagesltemgt Is an Unnerving Electric Romantic Drama

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 3:00am

The queer drama makes poignant observations about power desire and the psychological contours of creative life

Doctors Suddenly Got Way Better at Treating Eczema

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 3:00am

New drugs target specific parts of the immune system with startling results

Putting Trump on the Couch

The Atlantic [Feed] on 8/4/23 at 2:46am

A new novel from the psychiatrist famous for Listening to Prozac imagines a Trumplike presidents sessions with a shrink

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