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The Rise of Fluid Intelligence
François Chollet is on a quest to make AI a bit more human.
Who Needs Intimacy?
Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.
The Hottest Thing in Clean Energy
Little of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly.
Why You Should Work Like It’s the ’90s
When you leave the office for the day, really leave.
To Be Happier, Stop Resisting Change
The zen of archery is all about learning how to let go.
Trump Officials Are Treating State Secrets Inconsistently
Officials have been careless with sensitive information while claiming that innocuous facts can’t be public.
The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come
The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities
They could be key to recapturing the culture.
Trump’s Day of Reckoning
The president’s allies are privately acknowledging that he is in a rough stretch.
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
Photos of the Week: Snow Leopard, Fire Fight, Cherry Blossoms
Eid al-Fitr prayers in Senegal, a new volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland, the Ogoh-ogoh festival in Indonesia, the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Myanmar, and much more
When I’m 84
The world still needs Ringo Starr.
The Wild Trump Theory Making the Rounds on Wall Street
QAnon for tariffs
The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption.
Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.
Miscarriage and Motherhood
What having a baby taught me about the illusion of control
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.