Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’
Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.
Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext
The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.
Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab
Can anyone stop his space-based internet?
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.
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.
Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
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.
The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
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.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
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