How to Know If Your Friends Are Real
There are more ways to connect with people than ever before. But are these connections real? Or simulating real relationships?
What Happened When I Cloned My Own Voice
The promises and perils of AI voice software
If Plants Could Talk
Some scientists are starting to reopen a provocative debate: Are plants intelligent?
In Search of America Aboard the Icon of the Seas
Twenty decks, seven swimming pools, and one novelist wearing a meatball T-shirt
Introducing: How to Know What’s Real
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic
The Crucial Factor of the Stormy Daniels Case
The case has one important advantage the others don’t.
Money Can Buy You Everything, Except Maybe a Birkin Bag
Unless you know how to play the “Hermès Game”
During the Eclipse, Don’t Just Look Up
There’s so much more to experience.
Do Trump Supporters Mind When He Mocks Biden’s Stutter?
We visit a rally in Dayton, Ohio, to find out.
The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right
Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation, makes the case against devices for children—even if they desperately want them.
Inside a Hospital’s Abortion Committee
A Tennessee doctor explains how lifesaving decisions get made—and denied.
‘You Can Shut Your Eyes, but You Can’t Shut Your Ears’
The Oscar-nominated Zone of Interest is the sound of annihilation.
The Lost Boys of Big Tech
A conversation with Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley’s obsession with soft foods, its aversion to history, and the weirdest party she ever went to
How America Became Addicted to Therapy
And lost its tolerance for everyday stress.
What If Your Best Friend Is Your Soulmate?
A new book explores deeply platonic friendships.
The Despots of Silicon Valley
The intellectual origins of the movement that self-described “techno-optimists” are advancing is dark—and deeply familiar.
Stopping a School Shooting
The “Coward of Broward” reexamined
The Last Days of the Barcode
The invention that shaped our consumer appetites
Can We Keep Time?
Do photos, social posts, and diaries actually help us remember better?
Nikki Haley Could Surprise Us
Her path is narrow but real.