Trump’s Amplifier Administration
Thomas Friedman discusses the chaos of the president’s conflicts—and how the wider world is viewing the instability.
Feudalism Is Our Future
What the next Dark Ages could look like
How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World
A new book by the economist Tim Harford on history’s greatest breakthroughs explains why barbed wire was a revolution, paper money was an accident, and HVACs were a productivity booster.
I’m a Coastal Grandmother. Stop Appropriating Our Culture.
Young people on TikTok are trying to hijack my lifestyle.
No Rational Aid-Distribution System Should Work This Way
The new Gaza relief effort was bound to fail.
Wes Anderson Lets the Real World Filter In
The Phoenician Scheme is the director’s latest film to let modern life seep into his high-concept worlds.
Elon Musk Goes Nuclear
The world’s richest man and the president of the United States are now openly fighting.
24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
Why Wittgenstein Was Right About Silence
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one may find life’s deeper meanings.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Never Coming Back. Then He Did.
His return doesn’t mean he can go free. But it does mean the administration has changed course.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Ukraine Got a Major Battle Victory. Trump Is Not Happy.
The president has fumed that Kyiv’s drone strike could prolong a war that he’s desperate to end.
Your Air Conditioner Is Lying to You
How does money-saver mode make sense?
Why Skepticism About College Is Hard to Shake
Americans’ feelings about the benefits of higher education don’t always match the facts.
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
Cosmologists are fighting over everything.
America’s Most Dangerous Anti-Jewish Propagandist
Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.
The Warehouse Worker Who Became a Philosopher
Eleven years ago, the podcast host Stephen West was stocking groceries.
The Media Is Splitting in Two
Those who fear Trump and those who do not
The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.
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