2025 in Photos: How the First Months Unfolded
Loic Venance / AFP / GettyA woman takes photographs in front of the Maraya (or “Mirror”), the world’s largest mirrored...
Keeping Your Friends Is Hard. SNL Knows Why.
In a sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live, cast member Andrew Dismukes played a suburban husband who throws a...
A Warped View Through an Einstein Ring
ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler Day 7 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Warped View...
Recall
Maybe a pay-phone in France would still reach you; in the South; in the third or second life. Still then...
As Ukraine Fights Corruption, Trump Does the Opposite
A few days ago I called Oleksandr Abakumov, a senior detective at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. I wanted...
Trump Is Repeating One of Biden’s Big Mistakes
Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns about the...
How to Approach Even the Hardest Family Discussions
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to...
The Mad Men Streaming Debacle Is a Strange Cautionary Tale
When Mad Men arrived on HBO Max earlier this week, after years languishing on the less-subscribed-to AMC+ service, the streamer’s...
Fallout From the Signal Report
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By the Horns
Photographs and videos by Owen Harvey The week before the biggest bullfight of her career, in Cádiz, Spain, this past...
Rage Bait Is a Brilliant Word of the Year
The lexicographers at the Oxford University Press seem to be punking us. In 2015, their “word” of the year was...
Putin Lives by a Code Trump Doesn’t Understand
Donald Trump still doesn’t seem to have learned a thing about the Russian dictator he calls a friend. He’s tried...
The Origin of Hegseth’s Anti-Beard Obsession
On Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s trip to Asia last month, Air Force leadership issued an unusual directive: Keep him...
The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Very Bad Week
The suspected drug traffickers, the lone survivors of a U.S. airstrike, were sprawled on a table-sized piece of floating wreckage...
Is Affordability a Trump Priority or a ‘Con Job’?
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
