Return of the Shaman
How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics
Trump’s Tactical Burger Unit Is Beyond Parody
Happy Meal Team Six
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid
When children fall short, many parents’ instinct is to take away something they love. That’s the wrong impulse.
How to Take Charge of Your Family Inheritance
You may be fine with becoming more like your parents or hate the idea. Either way, it’s something you can control.
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.
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
The Good News About Crime
The sharp rise in violent crime starting in 2020 received lots of attention. The recent reported drops, not so much.
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.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
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.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
China Called Trump’s Bluff
There is a lesson here for anyone Trump threatens.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’
Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.
The MAGA-World Rift Over Trump’s Qatari Jet
Some of the president’s biggest allies are panning his plan to accept the luxury aircraft.
A Different Way to Think About Medicine’s Most Stubborn Enigma
A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.