Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/27/25 at 10:58am

Some of the winning and honored images from this years contest

Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/27/25 at 10:39am

The attack on it is a violation of the nations postCivil War rebirth

The McVulnerability Trap

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/27/25 at 9:00am

Influencers crying their hearts out online are selling intimacybut the emptiest kind

Trump Can't Escape the Laws of Political Gravity

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/27/25 at 7:44am

Sooner or later the nature will catch up to the president

Your Light Bulb Is Lying to You

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/27/25 at 6:00am

Why so many LEDs look so bad

The Unhinged Browser Game That Explains How the Internet Went Wrong

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/27/25 at 6:00am

And how it might be saved

Can Europe Stop Elon Musk

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/27/25 at 5:00am

He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere

The Message Behind Timothée Chalamets SNL Dylan Covers

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/26/25 at 12:29pm

The actor wants us to know hes a real deep-cut fan

Cloud Pantoum

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/26/25 at 11:00am

A poem for Sunday

An Israeli Take on a Modern Iranian Classic

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/26/25 at 7:30am

Eran Riklis has made Reading Lolita in Tehran into a film for our times

A Weekend Reading List

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/26/25 at 7:00am

Read about the secretive world of extreme fishing new approaches to aging and more

Bidens Middle East Legacy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/26/25 at 6:00am

Donald Trump inherits a Middle East that looks dramatically different from the one his administration left in 2021

Watching Trump From the Future State of Greenland

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/26/25 at 6:00am

Nothing is normal in Nuuk these days

A Quieter Border Didnt Serve Trumps Needs

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/26/25 at 5:00am

The president would rather exploit a free-for-all than manage migrant flows effectively

The Fox News Cabinet

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 10:36am

Donald Trump is surrounding himself with people who may be television-ready but are not prepared to lead the country

The Failed Utopia of the Starbucks Bathroom

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 10:00am

The end of the chains open-door policy highlights a tragedy of American life

Trumps First Week Back

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 8:52am

Lawmakers from both parties respond to the presidents flurry of executive orders

Reimagining the Meal

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 8:24am

Dinner is whatever you want it to be and that fact can be overwhelming or freeing

In This Horror Movie You Can Look But Not Touch

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 8:00am

Presence locks its monsterand the viewerbehind the camera

The January 6er Who Left Trumpism

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 7:00am

Not every Capitol rioter was a card-carrying seditionist some have regrets and a few are even refusing a pardon Jason Riddle is one

How America Claimed a Breathtaking Fortune at the Bottom of the Ocean

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 6:30am

It made itself bigger

America Is Now Counting on You Pete Hegseth

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/25/25 at 12:46am

My advice for the incoming secretary of defense

The Trump Administration Is Playing Chicken With Higher Ed

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/24/25 at 5:23pm

Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH This could be an omen

A High-Octane Mystery Series

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/24/25 at 4:38pm

Culture and entertainment musts from Shayla Love

Trump Bets It All on OpenAI

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/24/25 at 3:40pm

Earlier this week he unveiled perhaps the most ambitious infrastructure project in historyand all but dedicated it to Sam Altman

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