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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

Breakfast Is Breaking

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

The Missing Branch

In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.

The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada

The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.

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.

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.

Why Do Collaborators Do It?

In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.

Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem

A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

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

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

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

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

How to Prepare for the Trumpcession

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

Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers

The president wants to seize new powers, yet he’s also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions.

How the World Became Awash in Synthetics

It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.

‘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.

The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs

If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.

Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized

Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children.