How to Stay in Touch With Your Friends
The Atlantic’s writers and editors share what they do when life gets in the way.
How Scientists Can Be Good Citizens
We have a responsibility to ensure that our discoveries are used in the public interest. That isn’t always easy.
The Writer Who Understood Aloneness
Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of them most of all.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
A White House Briefing Straight From North Korea
How MAGA influencers have reshaped the press corps
The Putinization of America
Trump’s deference to the Russian dictator has become full-blown imitation.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
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.
Trump’s Lawyer Walked Into a Trap
By the end of the argument, everyone knew it.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
A Witch Hunt at the State Department
Trump’s commissars are looking for ideological enemies.
Skin a Rabbit
A short story
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
Does Anyone Still Hitchhike?
Traveling by thumb isn’t popular anymore. Some say it should be.
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.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?