A World Cup on North American soil ended with the most thoroughly imported, overseas-style final match possible. The foreign tourists...

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Photographs by Philip Cheung “My wife, Gabby, was shot in the head.” Obviously, I knew this. Senator Mark Kelly’s wife,...

J. D. Vance’s new book, Communion, answers a question no one had thought to ask: What would Augustine’s Confessions have...

Not long ago, autism was considered rare, but now it’s fairly common: Autism diagnoses in children have increased nearly fivefold...

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Pete Hegseth wants us to watch him sweat. Videos of the secretary of defense in a T-shirt and shorts working...

Photographs by Carolyn Van Houten The summer after the country celebrated its 200th birthday, David Hearn paddled a canoe nicknamed...

Building a new monument in Washington, D.C., is supposed to take time—a slow procedural grind of plans drafted, designs revised,...

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Late last year, President Trump announced that Washington would loosen controls on chip exports to China, permitting Nvidia to sell...

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In 1876, as corruption scandals shook the Ulysses S. Grant administration, the poet, diplomat, and founding Atlantic editor James Russell...

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost wrote in the famous opening line of his 1914 poem...

Two more Americans have given their lives in the service of their country. They died in an Iranian attackon a...