25 Feel-Good Films You’ll Want to Watch Again—And Again
Anxious? Here are some of the best and most rewatch-friendly movies to soothe your mind.
The Trends Atlantic Writers Love and Hate
Six answers to the question: “What’s a trend you wish would come back, and one you wish would go away?”
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
Moderation Is Not the Same Thing as Surrender
Democrats do not, in fact, face a choice between championing trans rights and completely abandoning them.
A Guide for the Politically Homeless
Those left adrift by Trump’s rise must now engage in a new project.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
What Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is Really About
Revenge on the military is just the start of it.
Photos of the Week: Doo Dah, Horse Play, Cloud Falls
An autonomous delivery robot in Barcelona, a heat wave in Australia, a triceratops auction in France, a lava flow in southwestern Iceland, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, and much more
Always a Girlboss, Never a Tradwife
A new Netflix documentary explores the cost of Martha Stewart’s chase for domestic perfection.
The Trump Marathon
If Americans want to hold Trump accountable in a second term, they must keep their heads when he uses chaos as a strategy.
This Is What Happens to All the Stuff You Don’t Want
I ventured into the belly of the holiday-returns beast.
The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False
Nature documentaries mislead viewers into thinking that there are lots of untouched landscapes left. There aren’t.
The Road Dogs of the American West
Survivalists, drifters, and divorcées across a resurgent wilderness
Is Ambivalence Killing Parenthood?
And can deciding to have kids even be a rational exercise in the first place?
A Horror Movie About an Atheist Who Won’t Shut Up
The hollowness at the center of Heretic
The Democrats’ Billionaire Mistake
In a populist moment, the Democratic Party had the extremely rich and the very famous, some great music, and Mark Ruffalo. And they got shellacked.
Thanksgiving Should Be in October
A modest proposal for fixing the back-to-back-holiday crunch
Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane
A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy
The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t
For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.
The Fox News Rebound
After the 2020 elections, the network seemed in peril. Today, it’s where Donald Trump goes for Cabinet members.