Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
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.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
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.”
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
How the Best Restaurants Can Make You Feel
Keith McNally’s new memoir is full of revelations, but one stands out: His work is an underrated art form.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America
Is this feminism?
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.