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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

‘I Run the Country and the World’

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So

Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

AI Is Not Your Friend

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap

For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold

Israel Plunges Into Darkness

What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.

The Oddball British Comedy Show I Thought I’d Hate (And Learned to Love)

The cult favorite Taskmaster has a nonsensical premise that slowly bowled me over.

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease

Cuts to agencies that protect workers’ lungs are going to result in the resurgence of a preventable illness.

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

The Partisan Mind Virus

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time

The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.

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.

How America Got Mean

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

Now I Know What My Mother Was Saying

I always knew my mother loved me. I didn’t realize the full practical cost of her love until becoming a mother myself.

Photos of the Week: Mud Race, Met Gala, New Pope

Artistic swimming in Ontario, a bun-scrambling competition in Hong Kong, the Devils and Congos Festival in Panama, and much more