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AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
Just Don’t Call Her Unqualified
Jeanine Pirro, Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., is a real prosecutor. She’s also a real MAGA partisan.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Israel Plunges Into Darkness
What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.
How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap
For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading
Hint: It’s not just the screens.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
Nostalgia for the Early Days of Parenting
“Cherish it while you can” is hard advice to follow for many new parents.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
Why We Long for the Most Difficult Days of Parenthood
Older parents are always telling parents of young children to cherish every second; it will be gone in a flash. But it’s very difficult advice to follow in the thick of it.
The Pope’s Most Revealing Choice So Far
By choosing the name Leo XIV, the pope has indicated that he won’t merely be progressive or conservative.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform
If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.