The Atlantic Gift Guide
The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love.
The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love.
A poem for Wednesday
Thirty-four felony convictions. Charges of fraud, election subversion, and obstruction. One place to keep track of the president-elect’s legal troubles.
My husband’s parents are divorcing, and they are worried about being alone.
For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
The Biden administration tried to address the country’s health problems, with only modest success.
Swift is a symptom, not a cause, of the weakening bonds between celebrities and publishing houses.
Group fitness classes aren’t just about exercise.
It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.
Tremendous power is flowing to tech and finance magnates.
Tech giants such as Google and Meta need something more than compelling chatbots to win.
Pete Hegseth considers himself to be at war with basically everybody to Trump’s left, and it is by no means clear that he means war metaphorically.
Striking out against injustice is always right; it always matters.
Once, some 20,000 trains traversed the United States, many of them elegant hotels on wheels. Now, most of the great passenger railroads have withered and died and they have been replaced by Amtrak, which has mammoth troubles of its own. Is there any hope for a rail travel revival?
Economists aren’t telling the whole truth about tariffs.
Americans who care about democracy have every right to feel appalled and frightened. But then they have work to do.
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
You don’t have to become a Buddhist monk to realize the value of contemplating hard questions without clear answers.