The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
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.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
How to Be More Like Your Parents. Or Not.
You may wish to emulate your folks or do nothing of the sort. Either way, it’s something you can control.
Maybe Star Wars Is Better Without Lightsabers
The TV series Andor achieved greatness by challenging the franchise’s good-and-evil dichotomy.
The Default-Parent Problem
Why do so many people assume that Mom knows what’s going on with the kids, and that Dad does not?
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
Trump’s Legal Strategy Has a Name
And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.
How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap
For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.
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
Trump’s Third-Term Ambitions Are Very Revealing
The president sees the Constitution as an obstacle to be surmounted, not a repository of values that he must respect.
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
China Called Trump’s Bluff
There is a lesson here for anyone Trump threatens.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
The Debate That Will Determine How Democrats Govern Next Time
Did the party lose in 2024 despite Joe Biden’s economic approach, or because of it?
A Different Way to Think About Medicine’s Most Stubborn Enigma
A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.