A New Concept for Fighting Climate Change
A growing number of climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its manifestations, is alive.
How to Disappear
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find
An American Problem
We cannot afford to excuse, indulge, or minimize political violence.
My Shipwreck Story
On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.
The Debt Is About to Matter Again
When interest rates outpace growth, very bad things can happen.
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout.
American Realignment
The country is sliding from an era of politics forged by social connections at the neighborhood level to one where cultural and ideological polarization dominates.
Dear James: I Miss Playing the Banjo
But I also have to make a living. Is there a way to balance both?
The Talented Mr. Vance
J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.
An Atlantic Reading List on Consciousness
What it feels like to love somebody who cannot communicate the way they once did
COVID Shots for Kids Are Over
The FDA’s new approach to boosters could mean that kids will no longer be able to get vaccinated against the disease to begin with.
Starbucks’ Most Beloved Offering Is Disappearing
It’s the end of free bathrooms—and of a particular fantasy.
The Unbearable Weight of Mission: Impossible
What started as the adventures of a brilliant spy morphed into the mythology of an exemplary human being.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
The Debate That American Conservationists Should Be Having
What if the U.S. protected ecosystems directly?
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
A Woman’s AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret
As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him.
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
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.
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