MAHA’s Perfect Villain
This morning, a crowd gathered near the Supreme Court to protest the weed-killer Roundup. Inside, justices heard arguments for Monsanto...
The Shooting Is Not a Reason to Speedrun Trump’s Ballroom
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
Can We Make Events Like the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Safer?
On Saturday night, a heavily armed shooter was able to easily access areas close to the ballroom where the White...
Even Hollywood’s Funniest People Have to Compromise
The best way to sneak a comedy into theaters these days, it seems, is to make it a crime drama....
The Briefly Introspective President
For a guy who had just been rushed out of a ballroom at the sound of gunfire, he seemed remarkably...
Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026
© Jens Cullmann / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026Practice Makes Perfect. First Place, Other Animals. A young African...
Vance Doubts the Pentagon’s Depiction of the Iran War
In closed-door meetings, J. D. Vance has repeatedly questioned the Defense Department’s depiction of the war in Iran and whether...
The American Pope vs. the American President
American presidents and popes have clashed before, but the battle of words and wills between Donald Trump and Pope Leo...
Conservatives Need to Fight the Legal Monster They Helped Create
Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded...
The Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Security Success
Here’s what happened: On Saturday evening, a man carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and knives got close to the ballroom...
The Coldest Kind of Revenge
Revenge is a dish best served cold, but how cold? Can we set that dish to cool for 400 years?...
What Happens If America Nationalizes AI?
AI companies are beginning to entertain the possibility that they could cease to exist. This notion was, until recently, more...
Maybe the Most Senior Members of Government Shouldn’t Be in the Same Room
In the chaotic swirl of events after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, doctors feared that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson...
The Most Frightening Shooters Are the Smart Ones
The line “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done” could probably have been written in an email...
We Cannot Harden the World Against Every Attacker
Except for what appears—thank God—to be only a minor injury to a Secret Service officer who was shot near a...
