Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
Putin’s Bread and Circus Had Bread
If there’s one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator, it’s never to mess with economic stability.
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
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.
Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
America in the 1970s: New York City
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
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.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
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