The Air Marshals Keeping Watch On Eric Swalwell
On August 8, former Representative Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, D.C. He didn’t...
Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed
If you’re short on cash, there is someone in Riga, Latvia, who can help. “You can literally make 100k a...
Massachusetts Democrats Embrace the Gerontocracy
Many Democrats of a certain age took the same message from the party’s 2024 debacle: Voters are sick of the...
A Technological Reckoning With No Great Answers
One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and...
What’s Behind the Sudden Anger at Flock
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
The Backlash Against Polyester Has Gone Too Far
Lately, the men of the internet who are obsessed with self-optimization have found a new fixation: their underwear. Many standard...
Trump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the Oil
“We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,” Donald Trump said when he...
The Absurdity of New York City’s Pied-à-Terre Tax
New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax provokes strong opinions. Supporters argue that the nation’s first tax on luxury second homes...
A Tempest in a Walk-In Closet
If you were trying to identify the spiciest policy affecting the fewest Americans, you’d struggle to do better than New...
Welcome to Girlie-Pop Woodstock
Early Saturday afternoon at the Daisy Chain Fields festival, in Irvine, California, the 25-year-old singer Eli twirled in a tank...
What Howard Zinn Got Wrong
“What would Howard say?” This question, which Dave Zirin reports being “asked repeatedly” while he was working on his new...
The Growing Lawlessness in California’s Forests
On the day of the kidnapping, the campground at Gumboot Lake happened to be nearly empty, so Joseph Charles Henrichsen...
Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches Off the Rails
Making Pete Hegseth the secretary of defense was always a huge gamble. A television host with little background in national...
Trump’s Economy Goes to the Polls
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Midterm elections are almost always referendums on...
Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
During a White House meeting last week, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll brought his concerns about the future of the Army...
