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

Is anti-Semitism in American political discourse actually just a carefully cultivated deception? Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X revealed the...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth apparently thinks that Arizona Senator Mark Kelly is in the wrong job. Kelly was one...

Earlier this fall, a team of security experts at the AI company Anthropic uncovered an elaborate cyber-espionage scheme. Hackers—strongly suspected...

Americans are very unhappy with Donald Trump, and they’re very unhappy with him for one reason in particular: the cost...

When a group of Democratic military veterans who serve in Congress released an ad last week urging service members to...

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Illustrations by Lucas Burtin Sometimes I think I became a mother not in a hospital room but in a Trader...

If anyone has a reason to oppose gerrymandering, it’s U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa. For the past 12 years, LaMalfa, a...

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, culture is markedly different than it was in the previous millennium. Everyday life has...

Yes, it’s true—DOGE “doesn’t exist” anymore. But we would never dream of letting it evaporate without an exit interview. DOGE:...

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

President Donald Trump may be stretching executive power to its outermost bounds, but in one very significant area he is...

A seminal mid-century paper by the psychologist George Miller asserted that the human brain can hold seven items in short-term...

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The...