The Shutdown Vote Was the Real Test for Democrats
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
The famed 19th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson was a lover of learning. As the dictionary maker once wrote, he dedicated his...
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Aphids toiled brittle stems as we met the dike to rob snakehead buds of their fruit. I gathered persimmons, podgy...
Keeping up with national politics this year hasn’t been easy. Even amid a government shutdown, so much is happening in...
The conventional wisdom about government shutdowns is that they always fail. Senate Democrats probably assumed as much when they shut...
A few days after President Donald Trump took office, I got an invitation from ICE officials to observe the administration’s...
Earlier this year, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a graveyard was spared by the fire that sent...
America’s year of independence, 1776, began with virtually all of those living in Britain’s 13 North American colonies content to...
When I heard about the “Live Translation” feature of Apple’s newly released AirPods, what came to mind was my first...
Early last month, the White House convened a meeting of right-wing influencers for a livestreamed discussion of antifa and the...