Maybe Star Wars Is Better Without Lightsabers
The TV series Andor achieved greatness by challenging the franchise’s good-and-evil dichotomy.
Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight
To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.
Just Let Your Kids Play With Makeup
Many people consider it a red flag. It doesn’t have to be.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
Trump’s Legal Strategy Has a Name
And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.
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.
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.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
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?
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
Retirement Is the New Resistance
The Democrats waging war on their gerontocracy
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
China Called Trump’s Bluff
There is a lesson here for anyone Trump threatens.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
Due Process Is a Right, Not a Privilege You Get for Being Good
If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is guilty of the crimes he is accused of, then the Trump administration could simply follow the law. Why won’t it?
Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce
Food safety in America is under attack.
ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal?
Three possible arguments against the tech company
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
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