How to Make Friendships Last Your Whole Life
“Swallow your pride and make the first move,” one reader says.
The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’
What in the world just happened with Elon Musk’s chatbot?
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
The New MAGA World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
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?
The Birthright-Citizenship Case Isn’t Really About Birthright Citizenship
And there’s good reason for that.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
No One Knows How to ‘Save’ Hollywood
Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on movies seized upon the American film industry’s existential panic.
Why Study History?
Civic education can help us to see that not all problems have solutions, to live with tentative answers, to accept compromise, to embrace responsibilities as well as rights—to understand that democracy is a way of living, not a settled destination.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.