Even Netflix Can’t Escape the Black Mirror Treatment
The sci-fi series takes aim at a very familiar target in its new season.
Federal Workers Are Facing a New Reality
The problem for government employees isn’t just low morale. It’s the manufactured chaos.
The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights
A CFO turned activist has become a go-to source for understanding the administration’s immigration crackdown.
The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen
A plan was set in motion with no idea of how to stop it.
Ed Martin Has Completely Disqualified Himself
Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney is a Russian-state-TV darling.
What Does the Literature of the Working Class Look Like?
A new entrant to the genre of workplace literature argues that even mundane labor shapes your identity.
Democrats Need ‘Imperfect Allies’
A conversation with Sarah McBride
Trump’s Bad Poker Hand
Plus: an interview with Ontario Premier Doug Ford
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler
Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.
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?
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
One Simple Hack to Ruin Your Easter
The price of eggs has some online creators suggesting that potatoes are a suitable alternative. Please believe me, they are wrong.
There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People
And only one of them really knows how to load it.
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.
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake
If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?
Sitting With an Angry Teen, for Longer Than You Might Want
Adolescence plunges viewers into the mindset of a troubled boy—even if it makes them uncomfortable.
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
Trump’s administration is only pretending to comply with the Supreme Court on the matter of a Maryland man it deported erroneously.
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