Dear James I Want to Want to Listen

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 12:00pm

I love my husband But I find it impossible to pay attention to him

This Conclave Will Be Different

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 11:05am

The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope

A Portrait of the Restaurateur as an Artist

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

Keith McNallys new memoir is full of revelations but one stands out The role of the restaurant manager is an underrated art form

Putins Bread and Circus Had Bread

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 8:44am

If theres one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator its never to mess with economic stability

Why Do Collaborators Do It

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

In a new novel Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G W Pabst worked with the Nazis

Elon Musks Most Alarming Power Grab

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

Can anyone stop his space-based internet

Congress Is Preparing to Hit Universities Where It Hurts

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

Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions not fix them Thats the point

The Missing Branch

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

In an era of intense constitutional combat Congress is nowhere to be found

The Death of Feminism

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

Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification

Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/6/25 at 4:00am

How to make sense of their stumbling progressperhapstoward a major fiscal bill

Airport Detentions Have Travelers Freaked Out

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 5:12pm

Fears of being detained are in overdrive even if the Trump administration insists that theyre overblown

How the World Became Awash in Synthetics

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 4:56pm

It started in 1934 with a PR crisis

Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 4:41pm

The president wants to seize new powers yet hes also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions

Breakfast Is Breaking

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

The classic American version hasnt changed much in a century Now it faces an identity crisis

The Comic Whos His Own Worst Enemy

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 1:04pm

The Rehearsal takes the pranksters quest for self-betterment to new extremes

Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 11:45am

A 300-page report makes for dismal reading

Republicans Are Flirting With Economic Disaster

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 11:01am

How the GOPs indecision in Congress could tank the markets

Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 10:27am

Amanda Hesss new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children

Fact-Checking Is Out Community Notes Are In

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/5/25 at 10:24am

People actually each other on social media all the timeis that enough to curb misinformation

Theres a Better Way for Trump to Boost the Birth Rate

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

Embrace all the people who already want kids but struggle to have them

Is Popular Culture Really in Terminal Decline

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

An emerging critical consensus argues that weve entered a cultural dark age Im not so sure

Welcome to the Trumpcession

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

I dont know whats happening but Im stocking up on ibuprofen

How to Define Old Age

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

Why would the World Health Organization want to call old age a disease

The SNL Sketch That Captured Millennial Anxiety

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/4/25 at 11:44am

The guest host Quinta Brunson was the perfect fit to introduce Forever 31

Skin a Rabbit

The Atlantic [Feed] on 5/4/25 at 8:30am

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