The ‘Amateur Diplomat’
How Trump’s friend and golfing partner Steve Witkoff got one of the hardest jobs on the planet
The MAGA-World Rift Over Trump’s Qatari Jet
Some of the president’s biggest allies are panning his plan to accept the luxury aircraft.
The Mess at Airports Is Part of a Larger Pattern
What’s behind the Newark-airport fiasco
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
Silicon Valley Braces for Chaos
The center of the tech universe seems to believe that Trump’s tariff whiplash is nothing compared with what they see coming from AI.
The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid
Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
The Default-Parent Problem
Why do so many people assume that Mom knows what’s going on with the kids, and that Dad does not?
Trump’s Legal Strategy Has a Name
And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.
Maybe Star Wars Is Better Without Lightsabers
The TV series Andor achieved greatness by challenging the franchise’s good-and-evil dichotomy.
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
Trump’s Third-Term Ambitions Are Very Revealing
The president sees the Constitution as an obstacle to be surmounted, not a repository of values that he must respect.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
Retirement Is the New Resistance
The Democrats waging war on their gerontocracy
The Debate That Will Determine How Democrats Govern Next Time
Did the party lose in 2024 despite Joe Biden’s economic approach, or because of it?
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
Just Let Your Kids Play With Makeup
Many people consider it a red flag. It doesn’t have to be.
ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal?
Three possible arguments against the tech company
Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time
The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.
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