How Tom Hanks Became Tom Hanks
The actor—and now novelist—reflects on how he got here, and the other lives he might have lived instead.
The Pandemic’s Next Test
Summer is coming, and COVID experts are watching.
Why You Should Pay Attention to the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
“For a week or two, it’s kind of annoying ... But after several months, it can be disastrous.”
Beware the Ozempic Burp
Some patients taking weight-loss and diabetes drugs end up with sulfur-smelling “eructations.”
A Vaccine for Birth Control?
In its ideal form, a contraceptive vaccine could prevent pregnancy without the messy side effects of some hormonal birth control.
What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows
Unsigned, unexplained orders have reshaped American law.
Why We Love Our Teachers
Atlantic writers on the educators who changed their lives
King Charles’s Very Hobbity Coronation
What the new monarch’s investiture will reveal about his character—and Britain’s
Never Give Artificial Intelligence the Nuclear Codes
The temptation to automate command and control will be great. The danger is greater.
The World Awaits Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
As the country approaches a battle for its ultimate fate, democracy and Western civilization hang in the balance.
Can This Dinosaur Change?
Lucky Hank stars Bob Odenkirk as a sympathetic fossil: a college professor.
Hotel Booking Is a Post-truth Nightmare
Buying stuff online is stressful. Reserving a room is excruciating.
What Readers Really Think About Gender
“We are terrified of making the wrong decision, of doing something that might irreversibly alter or hurt our child,” one reader, the parent of a transgender son, writes.
No One in Movies Knows How to Swallow a Pill
There are two kinds of pill takers in this world. Which kind are you?
What Home Cooking Does That Restaurants Can’t
When we eat, the social context matters perhaps even more than the food.
Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
Things look calm right now. They may even stay that way—but we won’t know for sure for a good long while.
Paris Hilton Has a Lesson for Everybody
Her memoir is a manual on how to construct a self for public consumption.
A Lesson About Living From a Survivor of Suicide
In his new book, How Not to Kill Yourself, Clancy Martin describes feeling addicted to the idea of taking his own life.
When Private-Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own Companies
Private-equity firms can succeed when their companies, customers, and employees fail. It’s a broken system.
War and Consequences
The conflict in Ukraine is about much more than Ukraine.
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