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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency....
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Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026
A selection of some of the winning entries from this year’s bird-photography contest. Competition organizers were kind enough to share some of the winners and runners-up, chosen from more than 24,000 ...
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The Trump-Xi Summit
A high-stakes week unfolds among Trump, Xi, and other global leaders....
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Israel Can’t Postpone Its Reckoning Forever
Intractable divides between the secular and the religious pose a bigger problem for the country than any external threat....
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The Press Is Not The Root of Trump’s Problems
He’s in a predicament of his own creation....
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The Confrontation That Broke New York
A new book sheds some light on the death of Jordan Neely and the trial that divided a post-pandemic city....
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Photos: Wildflowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert
Javier Torres, a photojournalist with AFP, recently visited the Atacama Desert in Chile, capturing images of a desert in bloom after a spell of unusually wet weather....
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In Defense of Guilt by Association
The wisdom of judging politicians by the company they keep...
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Want a Boy or a Girl? This Book Says Parents Can Choose.
The Babydust Method features debunked advice for how to determine a baby’s sex. Why have tens of thousands of people bought in?...
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The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations
The governing challenges raised by AI expose several unfortunate tendencies in the populist anti-monopoly movement....
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Professors Are Tearing Their Hair Out Over AI Detectors
Colleges still have no good options for chatbots....
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The Northern Passage
Hunted by ICE, Haitians flee across the border to hide in Canada....
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Trump’s Attacks on the Media Are Self-Defeating
When the president asserts that all negative coverage is false, he seals his party off from necessary criticism....
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Trump’s Monumental Obsession
The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself....
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What Is Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos?
A lifelong fascination with terra incognita led the astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan to map out the universe’s most enigmatic phenomena....
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Abdul El-Sayed Won’t Back Down
He wants to win the Michigan Senate race his way—as an unabashed progressive populist and a fierce critic of Israel....
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Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might
The longtime tech journalist says she’s seen Silicon Valley make the same mistakes again and again....
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China’s AI Rollout Is Messier Than It Looks
A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one....
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The Republicans Distancing Themselves From Trump
Panelists joined to discuss how some Republicans are responding to the president ahead of the midterms....
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College Sports Are Great
The accomplishments of athletes are every bit as impressive and legitimate as those of dancers, debaters, and oboists....
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The Data Center Debate Is Divorced From the Facts
All those scary numbers aren’t what they seem....
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What Trump’s Greenland Deal Is—And What It Isn’t
The president announced an agreement that appeared to satisfy all parties but came at a great cost....
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Can the Never-Trump Coalition Last?
The desire to resist the president continues to create some strange bedfellows....
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Researchers Say They’ve Found the Truth About Thomas Jefferson
A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved....
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The Michael Kelly Award from The Atlantic is Awarded to Drew Philp for “There Will Be No Mercy” published in The Atavist Magazine
Finalists are from Texas Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and New York magazine’s The Cut...
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The Kennedy Center’s Tax Return
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover....
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Lina Khan on Doomer Panic and Ending AI Exceptionalism
Why the AI-alarmism conversation feels off...
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The Other Way AI Impairs Our Thinking
Suddenly the technology is sapping people’s concentration in a new way, one that abstaining from AI won’t fix....
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Hitler’s Rise Was Not Inevitable
Timothy W. Ryback explains the contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise....
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Photos of the Week: Misty Morning, Haunted House, Light Festival
More than 100 go-kart racers in England, swimming pigs on a Greek island, military training in Syria, a scene from Beijing Fashion Week, and much more...
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When George W. Bush Defended Muslim Americans
The former president spoke highly of Islam after 9/11—a posture that MAGA has abandoned....
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Neil Young’s Epic Reckoning With Mortality
The rock legend has stayed prolific into old age, and his new album, Second Song, is a minor landmark....
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RFK Jr.’s Bold Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers
“You have friends in the White House,” he said at a conference hosted by the anti-vaccine organization he founded....
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Buttigieg: Democrats Need to Get Serious About Amending the Constitution
The former transportation secretary spoke with The Atlantic’s editor in chief about what comes next for Democrats should they win big in November....
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Who Would a Democratic House Impeach?
Lawmakers could be tempted to impeach Trump—but there’s another accountability measure they might explore instead....
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Pay No Attention to the Russian Oligarch Standing Behind the Wedding Party
He’s just there to foot the bill....
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The Presidency of No Restraint
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain what it means for Donald Trump to be operating with few limits....
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Photos: Fighting Against Desertification in China
For decades, residents and workers in northern and western China have been battling growing deserts using multiple methods, including “straw checkerboards,” to slow the shifting sands and boost fertil...
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When Meditation Has a Dark Side
Could there really be such a thing as too much mindfulness?...
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College Is Coming Apart
Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense....
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Why the Bomb Is Bad for Democracy
A famous documentarian’s new book suggests that secrecy is a major impediment to sensible nuclear policy....
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The Empty Promise of Therapy Without a Therapist
What happens when our therapists are no longer able to feel?...
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Kash Patel Refuses to Take a Republican’s Lifeline
The FBI director allowed a Senate hearing to turn into a discussion of bestiality....
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What Nature’s Silence Said to Annie Dillard
The late writer believed that hearing the natural world is its own form of prayer....
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The Atrocities That Shaped the Modern Middle East
The historian Simon Sebag Montefiore on his latest book, The Cauldron, and how violence forged the modern Middle East....
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