What Psychology Can Teach Us About George Santos
Telling lies about yourself can actually make you feel more confident.
Democracy Has a Customer-Service Problem
How incompetent airlines, or hospital-billing errors, or a mix-up at the IRS can erode our trust in everything
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Award-winning and nominated stories by Clint Smith, Caitlin Dickerson, and more
Gentrification Is Not Passive
The removal of a street sign in Brooklyn reveals how history gets erased.
MAGA Is the Mullet of Politics
The disaster in East Palestine has revealed Trumpism to be populist in the front and corporatist in the back.
How Should We Teach the Story of Our Country?
Book bans and restrictive laws are threatening to warp the version of American history that kids learn in school: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Can a Million Chinese People Die and Nobody Know?
Official statistics on COVID can’t be trusted, because they serve Beijing’s political interests. Making the dead disappear is only part of it.
The Supreme Court Actually Understands the Internet
Justices acquitted themselves well during oral arguments on two pivotal cases this week.
Shoppers Are Stuck in a Dupe Loop
TikTok made knockoffs cool. At what cost?
Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America
Why should anyone need a license to braid hair?
Blinken: I Understand Why Zelensky Is Demanding That the U.S. ‘Do Even More and Do It Even Faster’
The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, in conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken
No Time for Funeral Rites
The gravedigger of Bucha provides evidence of Russian atrocities.
People Forgot How War Actually Works
Armed conflict is never straightforward. Weapons are not power. National identity matters.
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The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World
A shroud is settling over the dreams many of us had at the end of the 20th century.
Cocaine Bear Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Elizabeth Banks has promised her viewers no more than a bear on drugs, and a bear on drugs is what they get.
Colds Haven’t Changed. So Why Do They Suddenly Feel So Bad?
We all forgot how nasty colds are.
Never Mind Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘National Divorce’
According to the author Richard Kreitner, the United States has always been in a troubled marriage.
Larry the Cat’s 12 Years as Chief Mouser
Images from Larry’s term as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office in London
The Secret Ingredient That Could Save Fake Meat
I tried “bacon” made with lab-grown fat, and it was just as good as the real thing.
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