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Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

‘I Run the Country and the World’

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

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 Oddball British Comedy Show I Thought I’d Hate (And Learned to Love)

The cult favorite Taskmaster has a nonsensical premise that slowly bowled me over.

Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading

Hint: It’s not just the screens.

Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?

Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab

Can anyone stop his space-based internet?

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.

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform

If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.

The Bliss of a Quieter Ego

We live in a world of noisy narcissism, but you can escape the cacophony—and be happier.

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

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

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

It’s not just a phase.

SNL Isn’t Really Hot for Your Mom

A raunchy sketch ends up reinforcing the stereotype of mothers as frumpy and sexless.

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.

We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong

What illness taught me about true friendship

Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit

Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.

America’s Most Popular Drug Has a Puzzling Side Effect. We Finally Know Why.

The reason statins can make your muscles sore or weak was unclear—until scientists accidentally stumbled upon an answer.