The New MAGA World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
Big Government, Small Bellies: What Japan Can Teach Us About Fighting Fat
Trump’s Real Secretary of State
How the president’s friend and golfing partner Steve Witkoff got one of the hardest jobs on the planet
No One Knows How to ‘Save’ Hollywood
Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on movies seized upon the American film industry’s existential panic.
Trump’s Tactical Burger Unit Is Beyond Parody
Happy Meal Team Six
The Neo-Anti-Vaxxers Are in Power Now
A new cadre of officials might deal in evidence more than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does, but they still question the worth of vaccines.
The Darker Design Behind Trump’s $400 Million Plane
Through Qatar’s gift of a luxury jet, Trump has escalated American soft corruption to a garish new extreme.
The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’
What in the world just happened with Elon Musk’s chatbot?
Return of the Shaman
How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics
Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time
The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
The New Divide in American Marriage
College graduates are marrying at high rates. Everyone else isn’t.
Silicon Valley Braces for Chaos
The center of the tech universe seems to believe that Trump’s tariff whiplash is nothing compared with what they see coming from AI.
Dear James: I Hate My Post-college Life
I’m utterly lost.
Trump’s Transactional Foreign Policy
What the president’s visit to the Middle East reveals about America’s shifting global role
The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Before she died, Emily Hale donated love letters she had received from the author while his wife was ill. Now public, the writings reveal his quiet duplicity.