This has been a terrific year for movie theaters. Cinemas are on course for their best financial year since before...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for...

Lintao Zhang / GettySzabo Sopov Kristof of Hungary practices ahead of the 2026 IWWF World Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships...

Americans do not know enough about the Cold War, and much of what they think they know is wrong. After...

The bars are flooded with single people dressed in their sexiest getups and looking vaguely uncomfortable. Each of them is...

Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy...

How to describe President Trump’s Freedom 250 Patriot Games? The contest, which took place earlier this week, brought students ages...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here....

Donald Trump just won’t let go of his plans for the Kennedy Center. Less than three months after a federal...

Last Tuesday night, I was eating sushi with a Mexican police chief in downtown Culiacán, a city that had momentarily...

The semiquincentennial events that President Trump has personally directed have been a celebration of his very particular version of America....

Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi. Even the...

One of the coronavirus pandemic’s many terrible legacies is the slow smothering of ambition in popular culture. In the depths...

When the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey got together last week to forge a new defense agreement, they...