The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
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.
Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
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.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
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.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
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.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
‘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 Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
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