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Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’

Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.

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.

Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab

Can anyone stop his space-based internet?

‘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.

The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy

How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets

What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?

Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.

‘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?

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.

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.

Breakfast Is Breaking

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

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

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

The Carry-On-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop

Airplanes aren’t made for this much luggage.

An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis

The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.

This Conclave Will Be Different

The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

How the Ivy League Broke America

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

Endowments Are Next

Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

It’s not just a phase.