Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
The Trump Voters Who Like What They See
“Even if they don’t agree with everything he’s doing, he’s doing something.”
America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
The New Divide in American Marriage
College graduates are marrying at high rates. Everyone else isn’t.
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
They’re no longer terrible—in fact, they’re often the draw.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene
Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.
How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election
Trump’s threats to annex Canada reversed its political trend—but they should not reverse its commitment to free trade.
This Is the Way a World Order Ends
Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
The Great Language Flattening
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.
An Unsustainable Presidency
Nothing about Donald Trump’s first 100 days has been ordinary.
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