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Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab

Can anyone stop his space-based internet?

Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’

Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.

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.

The Collapse of Feminism

Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.

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.

This Conclave Will Be Different

The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.

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.

Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush

Is this a normal marriage thing?

Endowments Are Next

Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.

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.

‘I Run the Country and the World’

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

How to Prepare for the Trumpcession

I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.

‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’

The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

Breakfast Is Breaking

The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold

Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.

A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.