What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout.
The Talented Mr. Vance
J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.
Project 2025’s Architects Are Close to Achieving a Major Goal
A new Supreme Court ruling shows how the American right has gone from fearing big government to embracing it.
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.
A Convenient Piece of Junk Science
RFK Jr. is prepared to rework the FDA’s official assessment of the abortion pill mifepristone based at least in part on a questionable report.
The Unbearable Weight of Mission: Impossible
What started as the adventures of a brilliant spy morphed into the mythology of an exemplary human being.
The Debt Is About to Matter Again
When interest rates outpace growth, very bad things can happen.
How to Disappear
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find
Trump Addresses a Military He’s Remaking in His Image
The president returns to West Point having transformed his relationship with the armed forces.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
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.
The Protective ‘Politburo’ That Hid Biden’s Decline
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson discuss their new book, Original Sin.
The Long War That Ended Last Week
The PKK is disarming. Can Turkey keep the peace?
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
Trump’s National-Security Disaster
Trump’s vandalism of the national-security structure, Signalgate, and a conversation with Susan Rice
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
An Atlantic Reading List on Consciousness
What it feels like to love somebody who cannot communicate the way they once did
Trump Is Crushing the Netanyahu Myth
The Israeli leader and his allies bet everything on Trump. But he’s just not that into them.
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
‘All They Want Is America. All They Have Is Panama.’
They thought they’d reached their journeys’ end. Now many of them have come full circle.