The Debate Over What Happens Next in the Middle East
Plus: What foreign-policy matters are most important to you and why?
Plus: What foreign-policy matters are most important to you and why?
Being punished for an alleged cheating scandal doesn’t make you a persecuted underdog.
This year, the awards honored books that resurface previously suppressed history.
Medical centers are offering fancy food and rebranding health as a “journey.” How about helping us feel better instead?
Decades of declassified memos, internal reports, and study projects create the sense that the government doesn’t have satisfying answers for the most perplexing sightings.
The series succeeded not because it had a clear political philosophy, but because it understood the power of entertainment above all.
With Promising Young Woman and now Saltburn, Emerald Fennell is turning recent history into gleaming poisoned fantasies.
Fallen Leaves, which follows two people trying to survive the modern world, is one of the year’s best films.
The past two years have seen the most conflicts of any time since the end of the Second World War.
In an age of precarious labor, not every life amounts to a satisfying story.
A pogo-stick-record attempt in Pennsylvania, airport-fauna management in Brazil, lenticular clouds above Corsica, holiday light shows in England, continued Israeli air strikes in Gaza, and much more
But Americans can still choose a better path.
A guide to understanding which fears are real and which aren’t
This year’s winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, Justin Torres’s Blackouts is a complex story about recovering the history of erased and ignored gay lives.
An investigation into the New York congressman is a spicy read, but he still refuses to take responsibility.
The summit showed that Beijing still needs Washington. That’s a problem Xi Jinping is trying to solve.
How our streaming lives are about to change
A newsletter from The Atlantic about the history of ideas
Benjamin Netanyahu has a path to political survival.
Pop culture of late, such as The Golden Bachelor, has been curious—and insightful—about love after 50 in a way that feels new and honest.