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AI Is Not Your Friend

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

The Partisan Mind Virus

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

Nostalgia for the Early Days of Parenting

“Cherish it while you can” is hard advice to follow for many new parents.

Israel Plunges Into Darkness

What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.

‘I Run the Country and the World’

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

Just Don’t Call Her Unqualified

Jeanine Pirro, Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., is a real prosecutor. She’s also a real MAGA partisan.

The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich

The sun is setting on burger dominance.

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts

If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.

The Pope’s Most Revealing Choice So Far

By choosing the name Leo XIV, the pope has indicated that he won’t merely be progressive or conservative.

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

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

Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading

Hint: It’s not just the screens.

Photos of the Week: Mud Race, Met Gala, New Pope

Artistic swimming in Ontario, a bun-scrambling competition in Hong Kong, the Devils and Congos Festival in Panama, and much more

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

What It Costs to Get the Life You Want

The kind of freedom that Mavis Gallant’s characters seek can still be out of reach.

Canadian Ambassador: My Countrymen Are Angry and Frustrated With the U.S.

Kirsten Hillman talks Trump, trade, and the fraught future of the U.S.-Canada relationship.

Breakfast Is Breaking

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

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

How America Got Mean

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.