It’s Too Easy to Buy Stuff You Don’t Want
Online shopping is too fast for good decisions.
How Mike Birbiglia Got Sneaky-Famous
The comedian who “invented storytelling”
There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America
An Amtrak ride can go so, so wrong.
Harvard Has a Brand Problem. Here’s How to Fix It.
Keep the endowment, but spin off the university.
The Problem With Turkey Trots
The races fit the American tendency to pit excess against repentance—especially when it comes to food.
2023 Just Notched Its Most Ominous Climate Record Yet
We all just lived through our first 2-degree Celsius day.
The Schism That Toppled Sam Altman
Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel discuss the fracturing of OpenAI.
Six Books That Might Change How You Think About Mental Illness
These individual, honest narratives can help dislodge oversimplifications about mental health.
Has Anyone Noticed That Trump Is Really Old?
He’s younger than Biden, but not by much.
Christopher Nolan on the Promise and Peril of Technology
A conversation with the director
No, You Shouldn’t ‘Date ’Em ’Til You Hate ’Em’
First impressions can be unreliable. That doesn’t mean you need to slog through a boring romance.
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.
Jason Momoa’s Manliness Overwhelms SNL
Confronted with its hunky host, the show resorted to simplistic gender categories.
Walton Goggins, Zadie Smith, and Lauryn Hill
Entertainment musts from Conor Friedersdorf
An Unlikely Source of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
Wildfires are making the Alaskan tundra leak methane.
The Other Ozempic Revolution
Weight-loss drugs affect identities and relationships as much as waistlines.
How the Hillbillies Remade America
A massive and forgotten migration reshaped the liberal approach to poverty and realigned America’s political parties.
Trump’s Apocalyptic Rhetoric
Watch the full episode of Washington Week With The Atlantic, November 17, 2023
Another ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ for Elon Musk
SpaceX’s Starship blew up again, and NASA’s moon clock is ticking.
What Humans and Nature Get From Each Other
It’s not a coincidence that America is getting both lonelier and more indoorsy, an Atlantic writer argues.
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