You Cant Design Reckless Driving Away

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/12/25 at 8:00am

Road-safety activists convinced themselves that law enforcement was unnecessary

How Not to Let Your Friendships Die

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/12/25 at 7:00am

A trick thats a little boring a little type A and a lot better than letting relationships fizzle

Eight Perfect Episodes of TV

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/12/25 at 6:00am

Picks from Girls The X-Files SpongeBob and more

How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled LAs Fires

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/11/25 at 10:30am

The disaster can teach California how to rebuild if the state will listen

Trump Criticizes Foreign Allies

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/11/25 at 9:16am

Meanwhile some of the president-elects most controversial Cabinet picks are set to appear before the Senate

What the H-1B Visa Fight Is Really About

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/11/25 at 9:00am

Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders agree on how to reform the suddenly controversial immigration program But the real conflict here is within the ...

The Choices That Create Isolation

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/11/25 at 8:00am

Everyday decisions accumulate into a life

The Message in the Sky Over Los Angeles

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/11/25 at 7:27am

What it means to go from smog to smoke

Altadena After the Fire

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/11/25 at 7:00am

The pain of one of the last middle-class towns in Los Angeles

False Evacuation Orders Are the Last Thing LA Needs

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 6:07pm

I have received 11 alerts As far as I can tell they were all sent in error

Rock On Readers

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 4:00pm

Some hall-of-fame responses about the Rock amp Roll Hall of Fame

It Seems Elon Musk Has Something to Say About Politics

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 2:54pm

After helping Trump win the election the worlds richest man is turning his attention to Europe

The Return of Havana Syndrome

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 2:41pm

A new intelligence report raises questions about a possible mystery weapon

Babygirl Isnt as Bold as You Think

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 2:20pm

Dont look to Nicole Kidman for a frank accounting of what sexual domination looks like

Dont Blame Ukraine for the Los Angeles Wildfire Disaster

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 1:20pm

Societies that scapegoat foreign powers for domestic problems erode their ability to solve those problems

The Intellectual Rationalization for Annexing Greenland

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 1:15pm

Donald Trumps defenders have little choice but to cast his trolling as a clever geopolitical stratagem

Why We Celebrate When Copyright Expires

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 12:15pm

Every January 1 in the Books department we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday Public Domain Day

Can Generative AI Uncover the Language of Biology

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 12:00pm

Scientists have collected troves of DNA and microscopic imaging data from human cellsand now they have a tool that might make sense of all t...

WatchAnd RewatchThis 215-Minute Film

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 11:47am

The Brutalists ambitious gamble with the audience mostly pays off

Trumps Sentencing Made No One Happy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 10:42am

But it still mattered for the rule of law

The Unfightable Fire

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 9:53am

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting

The Unfightable Fire

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 9:53am

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting

Photos of the Week Siberian Tiger Frosty Foliage Snowball Fight

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 9:00am

A snow-and-ice festival in northern China destructive wildfires in Los Angeles Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Addis Ababa an o...

The Wild Charity of Saint Francis

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 9:00am

The guide we need now that kindness is countercultural

How to Respond to Trumps Foreign-Policy Bluster

The Atlantic [Feed] on 1/10/25 at 8:53am

The way to deal with the bombast is by turning it against a leader who leads a movement that is actually deeply divided

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