Trump’s Amplifier Administration
Thomas Friedman discusses the chaos of the president’s conflicts—and how the wider world is viewing the instability.
America the Fortress
Trump is using travel bans to keep some people out—and additional means to make sure others don’t want to even visit.
Every Election Is Now Existential
A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.
A High IQ Makes You an Outsider, Not a Genius
Acing an intelligence test only counts for so much.
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
Cosmologists are fighting over everything.
First Wave at Omaha Beach
An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day
The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.
When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways
The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Never Coming Back. Then He Did.
His return doesn’t mean he can go free. But it does mean the administration has changed course.
Fast Times and Mean Girls
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs
Nobody wins in the Trump-Musk breakup.
The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
Why Wittgenstein Was Right About Silence
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one may find life’s deeper meanings.
Feudalism Is Our Future
What the next Dark Ages could look like
How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World
A new book by the economist Tim Harford on history’s greatest breakthroughs explains why barbed wire was a revolution, paper money was an accident, and HVACs were a productivity booster.
Wes Anderson Lets the Real World Filter In
The Phoenician Scheme is the director’s latest film to let modern life seep into his high-concept worlds.
The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun
In an effort to attract more right-leaning faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity.
The Media Is Splitting in Two
Those who fear Trump and those who do not
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