No Politics Is Local

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 5:10pm

State and city elections are now heavily intertwined with what happens in Washington

Todays Atlantic Trivia

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 3:54pm

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America the Juvenile

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 9:37am

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled grade-schoolers

The Ballroom Blitz Should Be a Bigger Scandal

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 8:50am

It is appalling for a president to accept private donations to fund a pet project Just ask the Clintons  

A Third Term Is a Legal Problem With a Political Solution

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 8:46am

Republican leaders need to speak up now loudly and clearly against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again

The Stubborn Myth of the Literary Genius

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 7:00am

What two new books on the English Renaissance reveal about the appeal of speculative history

Dude Wheres My CarPlay

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 7:00am

The auto industry is at war with Apple

The Lonely New Vices of American Life

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/3/25 at 6:30am

Booze is down and weed is up and thats doing something to us as a country

The High-Stakes SNL Sketch About Domestic Chores

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/2/25 at 12:17pm

The show pitched the next big true-crime hit what happens when men are left to fend for themselves

Coyote

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/2/25 at 11:00am

A poem

The Best Postseason in Baseball History

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/2/25 at 8:22am

This years playoffs and World Series showed that the game can still deliver the unexpected

What Mamdani Gets Right About Housing

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/2/25 at 7:25am

The YIMBY case for rent control

The Helicopter Parent Goes to College

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/2/25 at 7:00am

Hovering moms and dads used to keep tabs from a distance Now theyre touching down

Everyone Hates Groupthink Experts Arent Sure It Exists

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/2/25 at 6:26am

Are we too quick to agree on the dangers of consensus

Mounting Pressure to End the Shutdown

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/1/25 at 10:05am

Many Americans may soon lose crucial federal assistance leaving some lawmakers asking whether its time for Donald Trump to begin negotiating...

How Delivery Ate the Restaurant

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

Delivery apps are feeding our craving for convenience

The Next Era of the American University

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/1/25 at 6:00am

Higher education canand shouldfight the Trump administration but the age of lavish government support is coming to a close

The Slow Death of Special Education

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/1/25 at 6:00am

The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all childrenif it ever had one

White House Architecture Was an Honor System Trump Noticed

The Atlantic [Feed] on 11/1/25 at 5:00am

For 125 years informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nations most famous landmarks

Tucker Carlson Opens the Door for Nick Fuentes

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 4:47pm

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream

Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 3:52pm

Canadas anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war but theres another reason it may have bothered Trump

The Alien Invaders Just Want to Chat

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 3:14pm

Bugonia is surprisingly subdued for a movie about a conspiracy theorists quest to save Earth

How Trump Could End the Shutdown on His Own

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 12:55pm

Will he give a 19th-century law another look

JD Vance Needs Better Answers to the Rights Anti-Semites

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 11:41am

Does he want them

The Powerful Unpredictable Nature of Fear

The Atlantic [Feed] on 10/31/25 at 10:55am

Halloween is the perfect time to think more deeply about the role it plays in our lives

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