Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
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
How the Best Restaurants Can Make You Feel
Keith McNally’s new memoir is full of revelations, but one stands out: His work is an underrated art form.
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers
The president wants to seize new powers, yet he’s also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions.
Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
Dear James: I Want to Want to Listen
I love my husband. But I find it impossible to pay attention to him.
The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs
If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
World War II: The Fall of Nazi Germany
Part 17 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II
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.
Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized
Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.