The Remarkable Ability Many Dissidents Share

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/5/25 at 12:05pm

The novelist Lauren Grodstein visited Tbilisi Georgia in 2023 and the protests she witnessed made her think differently about perseverance

Not Everything Trump Does Is a Distraction From Jeffrey Epstein

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/5/25 at 11:45am

Democrats need a better line of attack against the president

The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/5/25 at 9:00am

At parades and in the halls of global power America has been sidelined

A Book That Only a Filmmaker Could Have Written

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/5/25 at 9:00am

In his movies and his writing the South Korean director Lee Chang-dong has long used images to suggest what cant be expressed

What It Costs to Be a Sorority Girl

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/5/25 at 7:00am

Parents hire coaches for all sorts of extracurriculars why not to train their daughters to make friends

Photos of the Week Humanoid Olympiad Finger Wrestling Haystack Rock

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/5/25 at 7:00am

Sea lions in San Diego a slippery-pole contest in Malta the Balls of Fire festival in El Salvador the World Tango Championship in Argentina ...

AI and the Fight Between Democracy and Autocracy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/5/25 at 5:00am

The AI researcher Gary Marcus says techno-fascism is already happening in the United States

Pete Hegseths Department of Cringe

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 9:17pm

Renaming the Defense Department is a pathetic stunt

Senators Finally Seem to Realize Who They Made Health Secretary

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 4:32pm

Ive grown deeply concerned

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 4:20pm

The states elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids

Photos Back to School

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 1:32pm

Students parents and teachers greet the new school year in images from recent years and from the archives

The Mass Shooters Are Performing for One Another

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 12:58pm

The goal of these attacks is to join a lineage of infamous killers

Trumps Quest for a Scary Prison

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 12:40pm

Gitmo El Salvadors megaprison Alligator Alcatrazand now Angola

A (Somewhat) Definitive History of The Atlantics Punsters

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 12:38pm

And some of the puns even hold up

The Enduring Influence of the Conjure Woman

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 11:47am

A new book argues that Black women from the colonial era through Jim Crow shaped how America birthed its babies nursed its sick and fed its ...

How to Turn Anxiety Into Adventure

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 11:00am

The secret is to turn your feeling of dread into the excitement of opportunity

The Biggest Test for the Supreme Court Yet

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 9:48am

It is no exaggeration to say that the future of checks and balances hinges on what the Court does in the tariffs case

The High School Reunion Will Never Die

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 8:36am

Social media should have killed them Instead theyre popular again

How We All Came to Live in Taylor Swifts Version of the World

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 6:00am

The tidiest explanation for the pop stars success is that she befriended an underestimated audience of girls and young women Thats only part...

Welcome to the Vaccine Free-for-All

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/4/25 at 6:00am

States are making their own rules

Trump Is Crossing a Line That Dates Back to the Revolution

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/3/25 at 7:25pm

A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission

RFK Jrs Victory Lap

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/3/25 at 6:00pm

The health secretary is showing this week what hes willing to do with his power

Triumph of the Insurrectionists

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/3/25 at 5:10pm

The Trump administration is on a mission to turn the perpetrators of January 6 into heroes

The Atlantic Festival Announces Interview with Mike Pence on Sept 18

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/3/25 at 12:14pm

Kathryn Bigelow Noah Oppenheim and Tracy Letts join Sept 19 ahead of the feature film A House of Dynamite

Goodbye FEMA Hello Disaster Consultants

The Atlantic [Feed] on 9/3/25 at 11:36am

Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors

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