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AI Is Not Your Friend

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax

What happened when a mega-famous evangelist went missing?

‘I Run the Country and the World’

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So

Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.

The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert

Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades

My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.

How America Got Mean

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

How the Ivy League Broke America

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap

For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold

Now I Know What My Mother Was Saying

I always knew my mother loved me. I didn’t realize the full practical cost of her love until becoming a mother myself.

The Republicans’ Budget Makes No Sense

Congress is trying to preserve the illusion of revenue while cutting taxes.

The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich

The sun is setting on burger dominance.

The Partisan Mind Virus

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?

An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift