A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid
When children fall short, many parents’ instinct is to take away something they love. That’s the wrong impulse.
The Mess at Airports Is Part of a Larger Pattern
What’s behind the Newark-airport fiasco
What Should You Let Your Kids Read?
Giving them some independence can help rekindle their love of books.
Trump and the Crown Prince
He’s the American president Gulf leaders have been waiting for.
America Is Having a Showboater Moment
The Trump administration talks tough on crime but shrugs off the work of real law enforcement.
Silicon Valley Braces for Chaos
The center of the tech universe seems to believe that Trump’s tariff whiplash is nothing compared with what they see coming from AI.
And the Oscar Goes to … Something the Voters Didn’t Watch
The Academy has a new rule to address this problem. Good luck with enforcing that.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid
Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.
The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease
Cuts to agencies that protect workers’ lungs are going to result in the resurgence of a preventable illness.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
A Crisis Is No Time for Amateurs
The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.
Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids
And start raising kind ones.
Trump’s Legal Strategy Has a Name
And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.
The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Before she died, Emily Hale donated love letters she had received from the author while his wife was ill. Now public, the writings reveal his quiet duplicity.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.