All Our Brilliant Friends

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 10:40am

The explosion of novels about intense female friendships in the Elena Ferrante mold is changing the genreand making it more fun

The Price of Canned Food Is Creeping Up

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 10:28am

Inflation and tariffs are hitting shelf-stable food just when the most vulnerable Americans need to stock up

Israels Critics Have Canceled Themselves

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 8:12am

Withholding submissions from The New York Times in order to promote your views is some odd logic

Patti Smiths Lifetime of Reinvention

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 8:00am

Nearing 80 the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her

The Writer Who Wanted Everything

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 7:30am

A new biography deconstructs some of the most persistent myths around Gertrude Steins legacy

Dont Blow This Baseball

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 7:01am

The thrilling World Series shows that baseball is truly backjust in time for its next crisis

Photos of the Week Pumpkin Patch Witch Paddle Giant Labubu

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 7:00am

The aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica the festival of Chhath Puja in India a bird-flu outbreak in Germany armored battle re-creation...

Trump's Plan Is Now Out in the Open

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 5:00am

Its getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots

The Building at the Center of the Economy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 4:50pm

Heres how the AI crash happens

Are the Democrats Overthinking This

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 4:13pm

In wringing its hands over how to win elections the party is ignoring the more foundational question of what it believes in

The Validation Machines

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 12:33pm

Humanity thrives on frictionso why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy

The Atlantic Announces Jonathan Haidt and Eugene Robinson as Contributing Writers

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 12:27pm

Today The Atlantic is announcing that Jonathan Haidt who has written a number of hugely significant stories for The Atlantic and Eugene Robi...

The Real Worry About Trumps Deals With China

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 12:26pm

Today hes resolved little more than a crisis of his own making What might he trade away later for such negligible gains

Traditional Values Came for TVs Weirdest Dating Show

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 11:45am

A season with a notably old-fashioned streak ended in a breakdown of Love Is Blinds premise

What 70s Horror Showed America

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 11:35am

Films such as Rosemarys Baby and The Shining made the terrors of domestic life all too literal

Why You Should Keep an Open Mind on the Divine

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 11:00am

There are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in a purely materialist philosophy

What Ghosts Reveal When They Visit

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 10:53am

Many of the ghost stories in The Atlantics archives come from true believers

The Last of the Literary Outdoorsmen

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 8:00am

Thomas McGuanefisherman hunter rancher writersays good riddance to his kind

Strike First Explain Never

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 8:00am

What is Trump up to with Venezuela

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 7:00am

Stephen Miller Marco Rubio Kristi Noem and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers

Why Journalism Needs Literature

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 6:31am

Fiction returned me to the world

Rahm Emanuel For President

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/30/25 at 5:00am

Hed like you to keep an open mind

Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/29/25 at 10:34pm

The president says he wants to resume nuclear testing but doesnt seem to know why

What the US Can Learn From Chinas Technological Success

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/29/25 at 6:00pm

America only hurts itself by discounting what China has done well

The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/29/25 at 5:33pm

Roughly 42 million Americans may not get their SNAP benefits on Saturday

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