The Show That Makes Being Awkward Feel Good

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

Culture and entertainment musts from Serena Dai

An Atlantic Reading List on Consciousness

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/24/25 at 9:50am

What it feels like to love somebody who cannot communicate the way they once did

The Protective Politburo That Hid Bidens Decline

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/24/25 at 9:22am

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson discuss their new book Original Sin

Cracks Are Showing in the US-Israel Alliance

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/24/25 at 8:00am

Trump hasnt been shy about undermining Netanyahus interests

The Big Beautiful Republican Shrug

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/24/25 at 7:30am

Republicans routinely criticized Democrats for rushing bills through Congress Now that theyre in power they dont seem to mind

Sirens Has Beachy Vibes but a Dark Heart

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/24/25 at 7:00am

The new Netflix miniseries probes the bought intimacies of the uber-wealthy to caustic effect

The Study Driving the FDAs Abortion-Pill Agenda

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/24/25 at 6:30am

RFK Jrs affection for junk science has struck again

Trump Addresses a Military Hes Remaking in His Image

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/24/25 at 6:00am

The president returns to West Point having transformed his relationship with the armed forces

Project 2025s Architects Are Close to Achieving a Major Goal

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 4:09pm

A new Supreme Court ruling shows how the American right has gone from fearing big government to embracing it

What Are People Still Doing on X

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 1:54pm

Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout

The Funniest Part of Alison Bechdel's Work

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 11:56am

The author is willing to let her main character be both her double and the butt of her joke

It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gazas Children

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 11:17am

Israels limits on aid have put the region at critical risk of famine Help is within reach But its not enoughand its arriving too slowly

All They Want Is America All They Have Is Panama

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 11:10am

They thought theyd reached their journeys end Now many of them have come full circle

The Long War That Ended Last Week

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 9:54am

The PKK is disarming Can Turkey keep the peace

What Mission Impossible Couldnt Actually Do

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 8:54am

It went all in on the mythology of its secret agent extraordinaireand then got encumbered by it

The Simple Formula That Explains Why the Debt Matters

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 8:48am

When interest rates outpace growth very bad things can happen

The Student Protest That Captured Americas Attention

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 8:00am

A new documentary revisits a pivotal week at Gallaudet University in 1988

Photos of the Week Dragons Teeth Witch Convention High Plateau

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 8:00am

A swannery in southern England tornado damage in Kentucky drought conditions in the Florida Everglades a rally race in a Chinese desert and ...

The Anti-Natalists Revenge

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 7:44am

A manifesto left by the bomber of a fertility clinic demands refutation

The World That Wages for Housework Wanted

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 7:00am

The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the homeand envisioned a society built to better support motherhood

RFK Jrs Worst Nightmare

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 7:00am

The candy convention was a celebration of everything that the health secretary believes is wrong with our food

RFK Jrs Worst Nightmare

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 7:00am

The candy convention was a celebration of everything that the health secretary believes is wrong with our food

The Most Ingenious Hawk in New Jersey

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/23/25 at 4:00am

A zoologist observed a Coopers hawk using a pedestrian signal as a cue to ambush its prey

In Defense of Academic Freedom

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/22/25 at 3:18pm

Three reasons why even wrongheaded or harmful ideas should not be censored

A Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/22/25 at 2:15pm

The suspect who allegedly shot and killed two Israeli-embassy aides invoked the Palestinian struggle as a pretext to harm Jews

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