Maybe Star Wars Is Better Without Lightsabers
The TV series Andor achieved greatness by challenging the franchise’s good-and-evil dichotomy.
The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid
Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Honeymoon Is Ending in Syria
A former jihadist needs more than charisma to heal his shattered country.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
Dear James: Is This Sexless Marriage Over?
My best friend’s husband refuses to touch her.
Trump’s Third-Term Ambitions Are Very Revealing
The president sees the Constitution as an obstacle to be surmounted, not a repository of values that he must respect.
The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight
To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
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?
The Sociopaths Among Us—And How to Avoid Them
You’re bound to come across the “Dark Triad” type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite.
The 2025 Summer Reading Guide
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
Retirement Is the New Resistance
The Democrats waging war on their gerontocracy
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
It never should have begun.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.