Last Weekend’s Political Mirage
The passage of the Ukrainian aid package won’t transform the GOP.
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.
A Dentist Found a Jawbone in a Floor Tile
Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not.
For Earth Day, a Photo Appreciation of Birds
A handful of images of the tens of billions of individual animals divided among some 10,000 species, inhabiting nearly every environment on Earth
The Accidental Speaker
What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?
The Politics of Pessimism
Why so many American leaders are advancing a new kind of nihilism
Trump’s Misogyny Is on Trial in New York
To read through the court filings is to be plunged back anew into the dizzying chaos of those last few weeks before the 2016 election.
What Donald Trump Fears Most
A potential reckoning that he has spent a lifetime eluding could be coming.
The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Movement
Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Donald Trump is reaping the benefits.
Freedom for the Wolves
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.
Introducing: How to Know What’s Real
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic
The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.
Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change.
Tips and Tricks From a Crossword Prodigy
A conversation with this year’s speed-solving champion, Paolo Pasco
How the Humble Donkey Became a Big Problem for China
A popular remedy is made from hides imported from Africa—but the out-of-control trade is causing geopolitical problems for Beijing.
Why Did Cars Get So Expensive?
The cost of insurance is up 40 percent over the past two years.
How to Look at the World With More Wonder
Culture and entertainment musts from Valerie Trapp
How Baseball Explains the Limits of AI
The iconic Yankees broadcaster John Sterling reminds us that what makes us human cannot be imitated.
Hinge
A poem for Sunday
Trump Deflates
It wasn’t just Putin who lost in the House vote on Ukraine aid.
The Battle in Congress for Foreign Funding
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces mounting frustration among his right-wing Republican colleagues.
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