The Travel Ban Shows That Americans Have Grown Numb

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/6/25 at 10:59am

Less than a decade ago a similar policy sparked an outcry Today people seem far more accepting

Every Election Is Now Existential

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

A nationalists narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come all across the democratic world

What the Great Teen Movies Taught Us

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/6/25 at 8:00am

Charting the history of American adolescenceand parentingfrom Rebel Without a Cause to Mean Girls

Photos of the Week Ox Racing Bat Research Smart Whale

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/6/25 at 8:00am

Monsoon flooding in India destroyed bombers on a Russian airfield Dragon Boat Festival races in China a huge tomato fight in Colombia surfin...

How to Root for a Merciless Man According to Wes Anderson

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

In The Phoenician Scheme an egotist slowly comes to terms with his own humanity

What Hula Taught Me

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

Keeping a culture alive one step at a time

What Happens When People Dont Understand How AI Works

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

Despite what tech CEOs might say large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word

As America Steps Back Others Step In

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

Our global leadership is at stake and its not too late to act

Nobody Wins in the Trump-Musk Breakup

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 9:40pm

Their feud is a spectacle Everyone watching suffers

Elon Musk Goes Nuclear

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 2:39pm

The worlds richest man and the president of the United States are now openly fighting

When Pete Hegseths Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 11:20am

The defense secretary annoyed Trump with a favor for Elon Musk Hegseths problems only grew from there

Americas Newest Gamblers Are Playing a Dangerous Game

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 11:12am

Sports betting could spur a rise in gambling addiction that the US isnt equipped to address

How Wittgenstein Can Make You Happier

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 11:00am

No really

Ukraine Got a Major Battle Victory Trump Is Not Happy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 10:53am

The president has fumed that Kyivs drone strike could prolong a war that hes desperate to end

Trump Tries to Blame the Colorado Attack on Open Border Policies

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 10:18am

The reality of the suspects immigration status is more complex than the president and his aides have portrayed

RFK Jr Is Coming for School Pizza

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 9:18am

The problem with ridding cafeterias of junk food

Mossads Former Chief Calls the War in Gaza Useless

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

An interview with Tamir Pardo who argues that Israels military campaign has been flawed from the start

Trump Is Right About Affirmative Action

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 6:31am

But for the wrong reasons

When They Made Me Pray in School

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/5/25 at 6:31am

I was the only Jewish boy in my class and I felt like an outcast

The Trump Administration Is Spending $2 Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes

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

The president may be disappointed by the findings

An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twains Paris

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

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute a surprise organ feast an epiphany at the Louvre existential dread and a rowb...

Why Skepticism About College Is Hard to Shake

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/4/25 at 5:54pm

Americans feelings about the benefits of higher education dont always match the facts

The Naughty Interpreter of Our Lives

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/4/25 at 1:28pm

Edmund White who died yesterday at 85 infused his life with as much pleasure as he did his writing

No One Can Offer Any Hope

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/4/25 at 12:50pm

Even if most Americans havent abandoned their private sense of empathy many dont seem terribly bothered by the rancidness of their leaders

Archivists Arent Ready for the Very Online Era

The Atlantic [Feed] on 6/4/25 at 11:11am

The challenge how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter

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