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.
Trump’s Legal Strategy Has a Name
And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.
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?
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do 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.
Maybe Star Wars Is Better Without Lightsabers
The TV series Andor achieved greatness by challenging the franchise’s good-and-evil dichotomy.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
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?
Just Let Your Kids Play With Makeup
Many people consider it a red flag. It doesn’t have to be.
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
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 Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
America Is the Land of Opportunity—For White South Africans
Trump has frozen refugee admissions and cut off resettlement funding, but he has made an exception for white South Africans, who he says are victims of racial discrimination.
The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China
A Different Way to Think About Medicine’s Most Stubborn Enigma
A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.
The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Before she died, Emily Hale donated love letters she had received from the author while his wife was ill. Now public, the writings reveal his quiet duplicity.
Why Study History?
Civic education can help us to see that not all problems have solutions, to live with tentative answers, to accept compromise, to embrace responsibilities as well as rights—to understand that democracy is a way of living, not a settled destination.
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