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.
How to Make Friendships Last Your Whole Life
“Swallow your pride and make the first move,” one reader says.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The Birthright-Citizenship Case Isn’t Really About Birthright Citizenship
And there’s good reason for that.
No One Knows How to ‘Save’ Hollywood
Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on movies seized upon the American film industry’s existential panic.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
American Corruption
The Founders would have hated Trump's luxury jet.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’
What in the world just happened with Elon Musk’s chatbot?
Why I Hope to Die at 75
An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly