Trump’s Greenland Threats
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Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
Forty-seven years ago, Iran had a revolution that replaced a U.S.-allied monarchy with an anti-American theocracy. Today, the Islamic Republic...
Big Oil Knows That Trump’s Venezuela Plans Are Delusional
So, about all that Venezuelan oil. Although President Trump has declared that America’s oil companies will soon “go in” to...
The Messiness of Friendship
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to...
This Flu Season Is Rough—And All Too Normal
The flu situation in the United States right now is, in a word, bad. Infections have skyrocketed in recent weeks,...
Put Humans in Charge Again
In November 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration to give jobs to the unemployed, and put...
The 17th-Century Philosopher Who Helps Explain Stephen Miller
If you want to know a political leader’s governing philosophy, you could cut through a lot of bluster by just...
America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein
On a recent Tuesday morning, I was blessed with a miracle in a mini-mart. I had set out to find...
The Pitt Is a Brilliant Portrait of American Failure
The Pitt, HBO Max’s hospital-set drama, back for a second season, is a throwback in every sense of the word:...
Trump Is Not Playing Five-Dimensional Chess in Venezuela
Venezuelans are celebrating—cautiously inside the country, wildly in safer places such as Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Miami, where hundreds of...
This Will Happen Again
On an unseasonably warm Wednesday in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a woman in the face. The...
From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds
Donald Trump has sent waves of federal agents to Democratic-run “sanctuary cities” over the past eight months, depicting the operations...
ICE Wasn’t Always Like This
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers...
The Type of Comedy That Makes for Great Drama
For someone best known as an actor, Bradley Cooper’s core interest as a filmmaker is perhaps unsurprising. Thus far, he...
