Winners of Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023
A collection of some of this year’s winning and commended images
Dogs Need Understanding, Not Dominance
As “gentle parenting” has become a popular method of raising kids punishment-free, a parallel shift is happening in the world of dog training.
The Government Finally Puts a Number on the Discrimination Against Black Colleges
Some of the institutions were underfunded by billions of dollars compared with their white peers.
The Killing in Canada Shows What India Has Become
The government in New Delhi may well be the sort that will do anything to silence dissent.
Distressed Haiku
Published in The Atlantic in 2000
What Emily Dickinson Left Behind
The winding story of how a trove of 8,000 of the poet’s family objects were saved
What Comes After the British Museum?
We need a new way to tell the story of humanity.
Radical Vegans Are Trying to Change Your Diet
The impossible fight to persuade people to stop eating meat
Trump Is the Reason Women Can’t Get Abortions
The former president wants you to believe he is a moderate on abortion. He isn’t.
The Economic Stakes of the UAW Strike
The strike isn’t likely to reshape the national economy, but its effects will still be acutely felt.
The Hollywood Dual Strike Isn’t Just About the Writers and Actors
Many of Hollywood’s workers are watching the dual strike from the outside, and wondering how to make labor function for them.
Russell Brand Wasn’t an Anomaly
The former TV host and actor was a mascot, at best, for a media culture that routinely dehumanized and hypersexualized young women.
Trump’s Menacing Rosh Hashanah Message to American Jews
The former president’s anti-Jewish remarks follow an old pattern.
The End of Scantron Tests
Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today’s kindergartners may never have to fill one out.
America’s New Battlefront
Republicans in North Carolina and Wisconsin are injecting ugly politics into their state’s courts.
It’s the Best Time in History to Have a Migraine
So why doesn’t it feel that way?
Tolstoy Was Wrong About Happy Families
In Loved and Missed, Susie Boyt presents the story of a woman raising a child, and the surprising reality of just how pleasurable it all is.
Gay Talese: I Wanted to Write About Nobodies
Growing up in a small town on the Jersey Shore in the late 1940s, I dreamed of someday working for a great newspaper. But I did not necessarily want to write news.
Nixon Between the Lines
Alone in his study, ballpoint pen in hand, the president revealed himself in the margins of his books.
‘Baseball, the Eternal Game, Shouldn’t Be Shortened’
Readers respond to our July/August 2023 cover story and more.