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Six Books That Will Make You Want to Touch Grass

Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long.

Schrödinger’s Detainees

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of hundreds of prisoners in El Salvador who have been denied their day in court.

Well, That’s One Way to Address America’s Vaping Problem

Millions of Americans are inhaling e-cigarettes illegally imported from China. Because of tariffs, they’re about to get a lot more expensive.

The New Divide in American Marriage

College graduates are marrying at high rates. Everyone else isn’t.

How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election

Trump’s threats to annex Canada reversed its political trend—but they should not reverse its commitment to free trade.

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.

Who’s Afraid of Gen Z’s Squeaky-Clean, Backflipping Bro?

Benson Boone has charmed his way to the top—and that really seems to bother some people.

The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind

A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.

The Great Language Flattening

Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.

The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia

And many people with the condition are cared for at home.

The End of Chicken-Breast Dominance

The price of boneless chicken thighs is finally catching up with the price of white meat.

I Should Have Seen This Coming

When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025

A collection of winning and honored images from this year’s nature-photo competition

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.

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.

An Unsustainable Presidency

Nothing about Donald Trump’s first 100 days has been ordinary.

DOGE Was Bad. Schedule F Will Be Worse.

An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure.

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.

Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.

The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.