Ideas

Photo of the flood in Texas
Brandon Bell / Getty

An Inhospitable Land

When the earth drinks in the last of the floodwaters, the places that remain will be different than they were before—turned sacred by overwhelming loss.

photo collage of black-and-white images from movies with nuclear mushroom cloud, missiles firing, maps, and mustard-yellow accents
Photo-illustration by Mike McQuade. Sources: United Archives GmbH / Alamy; Hulton Archive / Getty; LMPC / Getty.

Damn You All to Hell!

How Hollywood taught a generation to fear nuclear catastrophe

Photo-illustration of Dan Caine, with a black-and-white portrait of him in uniform surrounded by white stars and concentric circles, set on a neon-yellow and grey background
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Kenny Holston / The New York Times / Redux.

Trump’s New Favorite General

Dan “Razin” Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, doesn’t want the spotlight—but with this White House, there’s no avoiding it.