Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest
If you had to sum up Frank Gehry’s career in a single word, the obvious choice would be Bilbao. The...
Mamdani’s Plans Rely on New York’s Wealthiest
Fourteen years after Occupy Wall Street, Zohran Mamdani’s campaign radiated the spirit of the 99 percent: The mayor-elect promised to...
The Dangers of Denying All Vaccine-Related Deaths
On the Friday after Thanksgiving, Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, made a claim that shocked the public-health establishment....
The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable
For a decade after its discovery, CRISPR gene editing was stuck on the cusp of transforming medicine. Then, in 2023,...
Private Equity Is America’s New Landlord
We have a housing crisis, as you probably, painfully, know. Wouldn’t you like to have someone to blame for it?...
ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism
This summer, after hearing about an interview I’d done on artificial intelligence, a relative sent me an email. It started,...
2025 in Photos: How the First Months Unfolded
Loic Venance / AFP / GettyA woman takes photographs in front of the Maraya (or “Mirror”), the world’s largest mirrored...
Keeping Your Friends Is Hard. SNL Knows Why.
In a sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live, cast member Andrew Dismukes played a suburban husband who throws a...
A Warped View Through an Einstein Ring
ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler Day 7 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Warped View...
Recall
Maybe a pay-phone in France would still reach you; in the South; in the third or second life. Still then...
As Ukraine Fights Corruption, Trump Does the Opposite
A few days ago I called Oleksandr Abakumov, a senior detective at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. I wanted...
Trump Is Repeating One of Biden’s Big Mistakes
Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns about the...
How to Approach Even the Hardest Family Discussions
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to...
The Mad Men Streaming Debacle Is a Strange Cautionary Tale
When Mad Men arrived on HBO Max earlier this week, after years languishing on the less-subscribed-to AMC+ service, the streamer’s...
Fallout From the Signal Report
Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday...
