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Bumble Was Never Going to Fix Dating Anyway
For the first time, men can initiate contact on the app. It won’t make a difference....
Hollywood’s Most Indestructible Superhero
Spider-Man has always found success, no matter how moviegoers feel about his cape-wearing peers....
A Bleak, Violent Novel’s Unexpected Delights
For the characters in The Disappearers, seeing and being seen are matters of life and death....
Photos of the Week: Mudflat Trot, Waterfall Jump, Pole Vault
A pig-squealing championship in France, the annual City2Surf fun run in Australia, a total solar eclipse over Spain, and...
A Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald Reagan
The Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper....
The Dystopia of Modern Singlehood
The plot of One Night Only is extremely silly. It also contains a grain of truth....
Trump Delivers a Win for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption....
U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is a Mess
A new executive order is sowing confusion at a precarious moment....
The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped ...
Trump’s New Plan to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center
The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak....
Hunger Games, MAGA Style
A gym-class-style competition might be the oddest 250th celebration yet....
The Next Great American Songwriter Would Prefer to Stay Home
Phoebe Bridgers’s new record is heavy with post-pandemic disappointment....
The Internet-to-Hollywood Pipeline Isn’t What It Seems
The film industry is looking online for its next big hit, but it has a lot to learn about turning virality into box-offi...
Longing for a Time Before Smartphones
When it comes to technology, the answer to the future could come from the past....
Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 Finalists
The finalist selections for this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition were just announced by the organizers...
The Flawed Logic of Trump’s Airplane Escape
The president cleverly evaded a serious threat, but he shouldn’t have kept it a secret....
Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth
The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race....
It May Be Time to Panic About AI
Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?...
AOC Knows a Lemon When She Sees One
Francesca Hong’s surprise loss in Wisconsin is a blessing to the Democratic Party....
RFK Jr. Is Taking On the Fuzziest Category in Food Science
The Health and Human Services secretary has railed against ultra-processed foods. Now he wants to define what they actua...
A Silver Lining in Afghanistan
Five years after the U.S. withdrawal, al-Qaeda remains weak and the Taliban has become an unexpected partner....
Where Has All the Testosterone Gone?
Levels of the hormone have dropped in the past half century—but no one knows exactly why....
Trump Attempts Patience
But how long can the impulsive, reactive president show restraint?...
The Battles Trump Can’t Stop Fighting
The president has spent the past week re-litigating old conflicts....
What Do Sex and Gender Even Mean Now?
The history of a semantic mess––and a way out of it...
The Atlantic Festival announces interview with Colin Kaepernick and exclusive preview of Netflix’s East of Eden, with Florence Pugh, Zoe Kazan, and Be...
New speakers include: Senator Mark Kelly, Padma Lakshmi, Joe Kahn, Gina Raimondo, Ben McKenzie, Malcolm Gladwell, Richar...
The Long Tail of Boyhood Swagger
Chang-rae Lee’s new novel examines a young man’s attempt to be tough—and its far-reaching consequences....
The Democrats Can’t Just Laugh Off ‘Woke 1’
Republicans have no incentive to let them forget past excesses....
The People Who Bet Big on MAGA’s Future—And Lost
Some institutions jumped onto the bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to loo...
Photos: European Rivers Fall to Record Lows
While Europe braces for yet another heat wave, prolonged drought conditions have dropped inland waterways to record-sett...
Never Trump, Still a Republican
Why Jeff Flake still believes the spell over his party will break...
The Pain and Glory of Summer
It’s the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful....
The Atlantic’s September Cover: Tyler Austin Harper’s “Confessions of a Token Black Professor”
For The Atlantic’s September cover story, staff writer Tyler Austin Harper writes about how he came to lose faith in aca...
The 108-Degree Eviction
Living outside is a more dreadful prospect during a heat wave....
The Death of Reliable Immigration Data
The Department of Homeland Security set up an independent office to provide statistics that lawmakers and the public cou...
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