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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.

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

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

Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush

Is this a normal marriage thing?

‘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.

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.

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 ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy

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

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.

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.

Endowments Are Next

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

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.

Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit

Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.

The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada

The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.

The Carry-On-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop

Airplanes aren’t made for this much luggage.