Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
Putin’s Bread and Circus Had Bread
If there’s one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator, it’s never to mess with economic stability.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
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.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
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