Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’
Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
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.
Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab
Can anyone stop his space-based internet?
The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.
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.
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
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