The Atlantic Gift Guide
The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love.
The Trump-Trumpist Divide
The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.
Amazon Returns Have Gone to Hell
What happened?
The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders
Greg Abbott is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are encouraging him to do so.
A Ridiculous, Perfect Way to Make Friends
Group fitness classes aren’t just about exercise.
Winners of the 2024 International Landscape Photographer of the Year
Some of the top and winning images from this year’s landscape-photography competition
How I Demolished My Life
A home-improvement story
A Good Country’s Bad Choice
And what I got wrong about the 2024 election
What Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Get About Women in Combat
Trump’s allies treat every change in social norms as a DEI project gone wrong.
How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she reclaim her good name?
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
Gladiator II Is More Than Just a Spectacle
Ridley Scott’s ancient-Roman epic manages to find some beauty amid the savagery.
Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
The sound of gentrification is silence.
The Long-Held Habits You Might Need to Reconsider
One of the most humbling parts of being alive is realizing you’ve been doing a simple thing wrong.
The Sense That Most Defines a Culture
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue shows how colonization shapes a country’s culinary landscape.
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.
The People Who Quit Dating
Being single can be hard—but the search for love may be harder.
What Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is Really About
Revenge on the military is just the start of it.
Was Agriculture the Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
Did it solve scarcity or create it?
The Three Pillars of the Bro-Economy
Day-trading, sports betting, and crypto are about to get bigger.