The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians
As the Information Revolution accelerates around the world, upending everything from the international balance of power to the future of...
Winter Ice Could Humble the United States
Open up the government’s national weather-alert map, and pretty much the entire eastern half of the country is painted one...
The Rumbles Within Trump’s GOP
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
‘We Are Learning to Bully Back’
The meeting, by the time it convened, seemed pointless. Some joked that it could have been an email. When European...
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Aruba, Jamaica, Ooh, I Wanna Take Ya
Updated with new questions at 3:30 p.m. ET on January 23, 2026. In Princeton, New Jersey, a short stroll from...
The Online World Where Iranians Were Free
Weeks after the uprising in Iran turned violent, no one has been able to count the dead. The state has...
Your Teenager May Be Spreading Himmler’s Favorite Myth
Heinrich Himmler and other Third Reich occultists in the 1930s latched onto the strange idea that the Aryan race was...
ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, host Charlie Warzel speaks with the...
A Biography Without ‘The Boring Bits’
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for...
A Chance to Learn What Urban Fire Does to the Body
After just a year, the fires that spread around Los Angeles are already the most studied urban wildfires in history....
The Sports Conspiracy That’s Too Easy to Believe
The San Francisco 49ers will not be playing in the Super Bowl, because they lost to the Seattle Seahawks by...
The Great Divorce
Initially it was a rescue, and then a romance. But then Sam seemed to undergo a personality change. He became...
How Extremism Takes Hold
In late 1967, a young Nicaraguan American UCLA graduate named Patrick Arguello wrote to a friend about the death of...
America’s Real ‘Secretary of War’
Three days into 2026, the United States military seized a foreign leader: Nicolás Maduro. Four days after that, the U.S....
Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50...
