Two Futures for the American Left
In a spat between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene, which side would American leftists take? Until recently, this might...
What’s Behind the New Trump Child-Savings Accounts
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
The Strangest Thing Donald Trump Has Said in Some Time
Donald Trump’s most amusing habit is meting out casual abuse to his sycophants. His recent answer to a question about...
Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender
The outlines of President Trump’s endgame in the Iran war are now emerging. In a phone call with Israeli Prime...
Will Americans Ever Lose Their Grip on the Handshake?
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Homeland Security’s Plan to Strong-Arm ‘Sanctuary’ Cities
In early April, shortly after Markwayne Mullin took over the Department of Homeland Security, he floated an idea on Fox...
The Point of Arches
From nearly the beginning of the United States, Americans have used arches to make visual arguments about the nation’s ideals....
The U.S. Is Holding Global Vaccination Efforts Hostage
Midway into 2026, the most overt attacks on vaccines in the United States have stopped. With the midterm elections looming,...
A Department of Justice for an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Not so very long ago, the Justice Department stood as a bulwark of facts against Donald Trump’s wildest claims. During...
Higher Education’s Identity Crisis
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts America’s colleges have had a rough go...
The NAACP Is Proposing a Radical Shift to College Sports. Will It Work?
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana’s recently redrawn congressional map was unconstitutional. The decision effectively dismantled a key...
This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything
The scandal started the usual way. Readers noticed AI-like prose in a written work and took to ridiculing it online....
The New Blood Libel
The synagogue where I was bar mitzvahed was built in 1963. The Nazi Holocaust of the Jews of Europe had...
The Typo Vibe Shift
Toward the beginning of the 2002 film Secretary, a domineering lawyer (played by James Spader) barges into the office of...
What the 18th Century Can Teach the 21st
On the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary, it might be tempting to assume that we’ve run out the clock...
