America’s Johnson & Johnson Problem
A new book reveals how Big Pharma’s brazen behavior fueled medical mistrust.
COVID Shots for Kids Are Over
The FDA’s new approach to boosters could mean that kids will no longer be able to get vaccinated against the disease to begin with.
Trump Hands Putin Another Victory
The U.S. president promised peace on day one. Now he’s enabling Russia’s advances.
Kristi Noem Should Probably Know What Habeas Corpus Is
But she doesn’t.
What AI Thinks It Knows About You
What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Will Republicans Say No to Trump?
The GOP has mounted little resistance to the president. But his “big, beautiful bill” is his toughest test yet.
The Congressman Who Saw the Truth About Biden
While many Democrats remained in denial, Mike Quigley perceived something painfully familiar.
How the Passionate Male Friendship Died
The “perfect” platonic bond used to be between two men. What happened?
The Fraught Relationship Between a Pope and His Home
If Leo’s predecessors are any guide, this moment of American Catholic unity likely won’t last.
‘I Have Never Seen Anything Like This’
Photos from a week of destructive tornadoes across the United States
Modi’s Escalation Trap
A counterterrorism policy designed to burnish a strongman’s image risks setting off new rounds of conflict.
At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage
Slop the presses.
When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.
The Egregious Reinstatement of Pete Rose
To believe that pressure from Donald Trump had nothing to do with Major League Baseball’s decision would require ignoring some awfully big coincidences.
My Shipwreck Story
On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.
How Colin Jost Became a Joke
The “Weekend Update” host knows exactly what he’s doing.
The Trump Administration Is Tempting a Honeybee Disaster
Bees are dying. Federal funding cuts aren’t helping.
What Trump Got Right in the Middle East
He put business front and center and politics to the side.
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