Trump’s National-Security Disaster
Trump’s vandalism of the national-security structure, Signalgate, and a conversation with Susan Rice
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Congressman Who Saw the Truth About Biden
While many Democrats remained in denial, Mike Quigley perceived something painfully familiar.
What RFK Jr. Doesn’t Understand About Autism
Starting with his claims of an “autism epidemic.”
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The Long War That Ended Last Week
The PKK is disarming. Can Turkey keep the peace?
What AI Thinks It Knows About You
What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
The Beauty That Moral Courage Creates
A lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.
A Striking Moment in American Activism
A new documentary revisits a pivotal week at Gallaudet University in 1988.
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
The World That ‘Wages for Housework’ Wanted
The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.