Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
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.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
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
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
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 Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
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.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
How the Best Restaurants Can Make You Feel
Keith McNally’s new memoir is full of revelations, but one stands out: His work is an underrated art form.
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
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