Trump’s Inevitable Betrayal of His Supporters
Trump never meant to keep his promises. His voters are starting to notice.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Canadian Ambassador: My Countrymen Are Angry and Frustrated With the U.S.
Kirsten Hillman talks Trump, trade, and the fraught future of the U.S.-Canada relationship.
The Bliss of a Quieter Ego
We live in a world of noisy narcissism, but you can escape the cacophony—and be happier.
What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain
Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
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
Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading
Hint: It’s not just the screens.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
‘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.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
America’s Mad King
The president has grown more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic.
What It Costs to Get the Life You Want
The kind of freedom that Mavis Gallant’s characters seek can still be out of reach.
What Porn Taught a Generation of Women
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.
Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform
If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
This Is the Way a World Order Ends
Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
The Best Music for Productivity? Silence
Studies show that for most types of cognitively demanding tasks, anything but quiet hurts performance.
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