The Republicans Who Want American Carnage
Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.
A Democrat’s Case for Saving Mike Johnson
Why Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants to rescue the speaker from his own party
My Book Had Come Undone
A poem for Wednesday
The College Financial-Aid Scramble
Students are bearing the brunt of the disastrous FAFSA overhaul. That may affect where they go to college—and whether they enroll at all.
The Particular Cruelty of Colonial Wars
A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power.
Why a Dog’s Death Hits So Hard
I loved my mom more than my dog. So why did I cry for him but not for her?
The New Quarter-Life Crisis
Running a marathon has become a milestone for a growing number of young adults.
A Sexy Tennis Thriller—Yes, Really
Challengers has plenty of moody intrigue, and it doesn’t skimp on the sports, either.
The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’
What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?
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