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.
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.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
The Mad Dual-Hatter
Trump’s reliance on the same group of officials to fill multiple jobs is dangerous.
The Default-Parent Problem
Why do so many people assume that Mom knows what’s going on with the kids, and that Dad does not?
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight
To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.
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.
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
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.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
And the Oscar Goes to … Something the Voters Didn’t Watch
The Academy has a new rule to address this problem. Good luck with enforcing that.
The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
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.
America Is Having a Showboater Moment
The Trump administration talks tough on crime but shrugs off the work of real law enforcement.
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.
Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext
The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.