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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....
11 hours ago
Hollywood’s Most Indestructible Superhero
Spider-Man has always found success, no matter how moviegoers feel about his cape-wearing peers....
13 hours ago
A Bleak, Violent Novel’s Unexpected Delights
For the characters in The Disappearers, seeing and being seen are matters of life and death....
14 hours ago
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 much more...
19 hours ago
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....
20 hours ago
The Dystopia of Modern Singlehood
The plot of One Night Only is extremely silly. It also contains a grain of truth....
21 hours ago
Trump Delivers a Win for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption....
22 hours ago
U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is a Mess
A new executive order is sowing confusion at a precarious moment....
1 day ago
The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped write the script for the scandals that followed....
1 day ago
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....
1 day ago
Hunger Games, MAGA Style
A gym-class-style competition might be the oddest 250th celebration yet....
1 day ago
The Next Great American Songwriter Would Prefer to Stay Home
Phoebe Bridgers’s new record is heavy with post-pandemic disappointment....
1 day ago
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-office success....
1 day ago
Longing for a Time Before Smartphones
When it comes to technology, the answer to the future could come from the past....
1 day ago
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 at Oceanographic Magazine, featuring some of the best coastal, drone, and under...
2 days ago
The Flawed Logic of Trump’s Airplane Escape
The president cleverly evaded a serious threat, but he shouldn’t have kept it a secret....
2 days ago
Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth
The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race....
2 days ago
It May Be Time to Panic About AI
Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?...
2 days ago
AOC Knows a Lemon When She Sees One
Francesca Hong’s surprise loss in Wisconsin is a blessing to the Democratic Party....
2 days ago
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 actually are....
2 days ago
A Silver Lining in Afghanistan
Five years after the U.S. withdrawal, al-Qaeda remains weak and the Taliban has become an unexpected partner....
2 days ago
Where Has All the Testosterone Gone?
Levels of the hormone have dropped in the past half century—but no one knows exactly why....
2 days ago
Trump Attempts Patience
But how long can the impulsive, reactive president show restraint?...
3 days ago
The Battles Trump Can’t Stop Fighting
The president has spent the past week re-litigating old conflicts....
3 days ago
What Do Sex and Gender Even Mean Now?
The history of a semantic mess––and a way out of it...
3 days ago
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, Richard Linklater...
3 days ago
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....
3 days ago
The Democrats Can’t Just Laugh Off ‘Woke 1’
Republicans have no incentive to let them forget past excesses....
3 days ago
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 look shortsighted....
4 days ago
Photos: European Rivers Fall to Record Lows
While Europe braces for yet another heat wave, prolonged drought conditions have dropped inland waterways to record-setting low levels, exposing long-submerged shipwrecks and affecting navigation....
4 days ago
Never Trump, Still a Republican
Why Jeff Flake still believes the spell over his party will break...
4 days ago
The Pain and Glory of Summer
It’s the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful....
4 days ago
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 academia, chronicling his recent career as a professor and his decision to leave hi...
4 days ago
The 108-Degree Eviction
Living outside is a more dreadful prospect during a heat wave....
4 days ago
The Death of Reliable Immigration Data
The Department of Homeland Security set up an independent office to provide statistics that lawmakers and the public could trust. Its director just quit....
4 days ago
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....
5 days ago
Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets?
The myth and science of the country’s favorite floofy, fluffy cuddle-badgers...
5 days ago
How Ukraine Became a ‘Model Ally’
The country Trump once disdained as a burden has become a military powerhouse....
5 days ago
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....
6 days ago
Bad Luck, Bad Choices
Richard Russo is America’s portraitist of left-behind people in hollowed-out towns....
6 days ago
What Mitch McConnell Did to America
The former Senate GOP leader’s legacy will make America harder to govern for years to come....
6 days ago
The Color Recession May Be Permanent
Consumers are so afraid of getting colors wrong, they don’t use them at all....
6 days ago
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 claims....
1 week ago
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....
1 week ago
The Thrill of Letting Pop Culture Consume You
Jane Schoenbrun’s new film wants viewers to be taken in by feelings, not overanalysis....
1 week ago
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