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Trump Blinked

Or did he?

There Was Never a Master Plan

Trump backed down on tariffs. His supporters think that was the idea all along.

The Art of the Retreat

Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.

Treating Friends Like Enemies

Rahm Emanuel and Trump’s tariff chaos

The Catholics Who Have to Worship Somewhere Else

How the Latin Mass split the Church

Americans Want to Be Rich

That simple aspiration propelled Trump into office, but it is now threatened by his tariffs.

An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts

The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory.

The Cost of Chaos

The Liberation Day pause is better than the Liberation Day policy itself was. But Americans are getting a raw deal one way or another.

Reclaim Imperfect Faces

Technology isn’t just changing the way we look—it’s changing our sense of how we should look.

The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified

How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums?

Trump Has a Screw Loose About Tariffs

Trade barriers will make U.S. goods more expensive to produce, costlier to buy, and inferior to the foreign competition.

The Comic-Book Artist Who Mastered Space and Time

Jules Feiffer, who died in January, taught me many things, but one comic strip mattered most of all.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Trump World Makes the Case Against Trump

MAGA supporters are attempting to understand Trump’s catastrophic decision making, while accepting Trump’s infallibility as a given.

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun

Towns near the Canadian border are suffering.

The Colors of Spring

Images from the past few weeks of people enjoying flowering trees and fields—signs of warmer days to come

The Paradox of Hard Work

Why do people enjoy doing difficult things?

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.