The Trump Administration’s Favorite Answer
President Donald Trump once promised, “I alone can fix it.” Now he has a different message.
Will Republicans Say No to Trump?
The GOP has mounted little resistance to the president. But his “big, beautiful bill” is his toughest test yet.
Kristi Noem Should Probably Know What Habeas Corpus Is
But she doesn’t.
Trump Hands Putin Another Victory
The U.S. president promised peace on day one. Now he’s enabling Russia’s advances.
COVID Shots for Kids Are Over
The FDA’s new approach to boosters could mean that kids will no longer be able to get vaccinated against the disease to begin with.
America’s Johnson & Johnson Problem
A new book reveals how Big Pharma’s brazen behavior fueled medical mistrust.
The Congressman Who Saw the Truth About Biden
While many Democrats remained in denial, Mike Quigley perceived something painfully familiar.
‘I Have Never Seen Anything Like This’
Photos from a week of destructive tornadoes across the United States
The Talented Mr. Vance
J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
What AI Thinks It Knows About You
What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
How the Passionate Male Friendship Died
The “perfect” platonic bond used to be between two men. What happened?
The Fraught Relationship Between a Pope and His Home
If Leo’s predecessors are any guide, this moment of American Catholic unity likely won’t last.
Modi’s Escalation Trap
A counterterrorism policy designed to burnish a strongman’s image risks setting off new rounds of conflict.
At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage
Slop the presses.
When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.
Biden’s Age Wasn’t a Cover-Up. It Was Observable Fact.
The story about the former president getting old is getting old.
The Egregious Reinstatement of Pete Rose
To believe that pressure from Donald Trump had nothing to do with Major League Baseball’s decision would require ignoring some awfully big coincidences.
Trump’s Plan to Cap Drug Prices Doesn’t Exist
Instead, he seems content blaming foreign countries and hoping for the best.
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