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.
The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
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.
‘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.
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.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
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