Is Sasha Velour in Danger?
What happens when a famous drag queen travels to states that have tried to ban drag?
How to Trust Your Brain Online
What happens in our brains as we try to distinguish between truth and falsehood
Russia’s Psychological Warfare Against Ukraine
“There is a battle going on between two worldviews, but the divisions aren’t geographical. They’re in people’s heads.”
How to Live in a Digital City
What we can learn from real-life urbanization to improve online living
New Male Contraceptives Could Be Infuriatingly Pain-Free and Easy
Why don’t women have options like that?
Introducing: Good on Paper
A new show hosted by Jerusalem Demsas questions what we really know about the narratives driving public conversation.
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.