How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.
Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’
Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.
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.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
‘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.
What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
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.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
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.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
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