The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/7/25 at 9:30am

Anne Applebaum and Americas backsliding democracy

The AbsurdityAnd Geniusof the Mothers Day Opt-Out Email

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/7/25 at 9:08am

This is what happens when brands try to be your friend

Europeans Have Realized Their Error

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/7/25 at 8:20am

The urge to say I told you so is strong these days throughout the Baltics

The Surprising History of Romantic Advice

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

A 17th-century column shows that dating has always been an anxiety-riddled endeavor

How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/7/25 at 6:30am

Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics horsemanship and carefully placed hooves

The Impossible Plight of the Pro-Tariff Liberals

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/7/25 at 6:00am

They finally got the Democratic Party to listen to them Then came Trumps second term

Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 5:40pm

The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administrations goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal

An America First Deal With the Houthis

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 5:19pm

The US has extracted itself from the conflict not ended it

The NIHs New Cronyism

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 3:24pm

A flu researcher who the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award

Trumps Kennedy Center Debut Les Mis and Six-Figure Checks

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 2:00pm

The president will attend a fundraiser and a showing of Les Misérables at an institution he hopes to remake in his image

Dear James I Want to Want to Listen

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 12:00pm

I love my husband But I find it impossible to pay attention to him

This Conclave Will Be Different

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 11:05am

The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope

A Portrait of the Restaurateur as an Artist

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 10:25am

Keith McNallys new memoir is full of revelations but one stands out The role of the restaurant manager is an underrated art form

Putins Bread and Circus Had Bread

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 8:44am

If theres one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator its never to mess with economic stability

Why Do Collaborators Do It

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 7:00am

In a new novel Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G W Pabst worked with the Nazis

Elon Musks Most Alarming Power Grab

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 7:00am

Can anyone stop his space-based internet

Congress Is Preparing to Hit Universities Where It Hurts

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 6:00am

Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions not fix them Thats the point

The Missing Branch

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 5:00am

In an era of intense constitutional combat Congress is nowhere to be found

The Death of Feminism

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 5:00am

Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification

Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 4:00am

How to make sense of their stumbling progressperhapstoward a major fiscal bill

Airport Detentions Have Travelers Freaked Out

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

Fears of being detained are in overdrive even if the Trump administration insists that theyre overblown

How the World Became Awash in Synthetics

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 4:56pm

It started in 1934 with a PR crisis

Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 4:41pm

The president wants to seize new powers yet hes also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions

Breakfast Is Breaking

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 4:09pm

The classic American version hasnt changed much in a century Now it faces an identity crisis

The Comic Whos His Own Worst Enemy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 1:04pm

The Rehearsal takes the pranksters quest for self-betterment to new extremes

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