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France’s Best Argument Against Racism Isn’t Working
The country’s most beloved men are paragons of diversity, but ethnic resentment is still winning....
Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets?
The myth and science of the country’s favorite floofy, fluffy cuddle-badgers...
How Ukraine Became a ‘Model Ally’
The country Trump once disdained as a burden has become a military powerhouse....
How Trump’s Priorities May Impact The Midterms
Panelists joined to discuss the president’s continued interest in renovating landmarks in the nation’s capital....
Bad Luck, Bad Choices
Richard Russo is America’s portraitist of left-behind people in hollowed-out towns....
What Mitch McConnell Did to America
The former Senate GOP leader’s legacy will make America harder to govern for years to come....
The Color Recession May Be Permanent
Consumers are so afraid of getting colors wrong, they don’t use them at all....
Trump Takes a Bulldozer to Birthright Citizenship Again
The president’s latest attempt to limit who is an American by birth is plagued by weak legal arguments and nonsensical c...
The Best Way to Learn Outside of the Classroom
As a busy adult, I approach foundational, complicated ideas with the help of the intellectual biography....
The Thrill of Letting Pop Culture Consume You
Jane Schoenbrun’s new film wants viewers to be taken in by feelings, not overanalysis....
The Internet Is in Crisis
For 15 minutes, the celebrity-gossip blogger Perez Hilton livestreamed his violent self-harm without anyone intervening....
The Atlantic Announces Madeleine Carlisle and Danyel Smith as Staff Writers
Today The Atlantic is announcing two new staff writers: Madeleine Carlisle and Danyel Smith. This marks a homecoming for...
The Risks of a Chatbot Childhood
AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains....
The Most Basic Step of the Ebola Response Is Falling Short
Curbing the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will require stepping up testing....
Tina Peters Is Back
Newly out of prison, she is back to trying to prove election fraud....
Why I Love Blue Books
There’s no better way for students to show their professors what they’re capable of....
Iran Goes Looking for Love in Jordan
Tehran wants the Arab public to balk at the cost of allying with the United States....
Ukraine’s Fleeting Turnaround
The chorus of optimism has quieted on several fronts, including Zelensky’s struggle with corruption and his relations wi...
Trump’s Economic Blame Game
The private sector can’t fully fix the problems that the Iran war has caused....
Icarus in the Faculty Lounge
The Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s unlikely ascent has come to a tragic end....
Why Is The Odyssey Rated R?
The U.S. is a relative outlier in keeping Christopher Nolan’s movie away from younger audiences....
Connectivity Is Spoiling Camp
Kids sent away during the summer used to get true distance from their parents. No longer....
The American West Knows How to Flee Fires
Evacuation has become a familiar, terrible summer ordeal....
A Shortage of Weapons Is Shaping the War With Iran
Trump fumed at subordinates who showed him the perils of escalation....
Do Not Paint Granite!
The latest Trump renovation project would violate a basic rule of building maintenance....
The Academics Who Caught Fire
The French theorists of the postwar era argued that the author’s life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin’s lively new book prove...
Abdul El-Sayed’s Next Big Challenge
He called out Democrats. Now he needs to bring them together....
Tony, Before He Was Bourdain
A new biopic uses the late chef turned TV personality to examine how a young person comes to love cooking....
Are AI Companies Really Destroying Books?
Despite the panic online, there are plenty of unanswered questions....
The Humiliated President
As Donald Trump faces one embarrassment after another, he is attacking those he blames....
Photos: The Dogs That Surf
Recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in dog-surfing competitions, many them fundraising events for anima...
The Democrats’ Riskiest Midterm Play
They have been backing independent Senate candidates in red states. But Montana is not working as planned....
The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson
Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal....
Liberals Are Now Fighting a Two-Front War
Leftists like Abdul El-Sayed will take over the Democratic Party unless the center-left adapts to their rise....
A Key Belief About the 2024 Election Isn’t True
Joe Biden’s climate agenda actually did win votes for Democrats—just not quite enough....
Did al-Qaeda Succeed?
Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide whether the terrorist organization got what it wanted....
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