The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Trump Sides With the Israeli People Against Netanyahu
Most Israelis want to end the war, but their prime minister does not.
Who Counts as Christian?
A new initiative will necessitate that the Trump administration makes difficult judgment calls about the faith.
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
Dear James: I Have Debilitating Stage Fright
How to overcome my panic?
How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap
For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
‘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.
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So
Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.
An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax
What happened when a mega-famous evangelist went missing?
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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.
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.
Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading
Hint: It’s not just the screens.
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