Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab
Can anyone stop his space-based internet?
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
Trump’s Kennedy Center Debut: Les Mis and Six-Figure Checks
The president will attend a fundraiser and a showing of Les Misérables at an institution he hopes to remake in his image.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
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.
Putin’s Bread and Circus Had Bread
If there’s one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator, it’s never to mess with economic stability.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
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