‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized
Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
The SNL Sketch That Captured Millennial Anxiety
The guest host Quinta Brunson was the perfect fit to introduce “Forever 31.”
The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs
If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
How to Define Old Age
Why would the World Health Organization want to call “old age” a disease?
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind
A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
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