‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
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