Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Mainstream
Hypocrisy is not an altogether bad thing. So long as our society has hypocrites, we have not totally lost our...
In War, the Enemy Always Gets a Vote
Astonishingly, President Trump and his aides were caught unprepared when Iran, under air assault from the United States and Israel,...
Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Weather App?
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts How are we still getting caught in...
The Atlantic Announces Sophia Nguyen and Kevin Sieff as Staff Writers; and Theo Balcomb and Jonathan L. Fischer as Senior Editors
The Atlantic is announcing several journalists joining this spring as a part of our continued newsroom growth: Sophia Nguyen and...
Photos of the Week: Reindeer Sprint, Iditarod Trail, Tattoo Festival
Alexey Pavlishak TPX / Alexey Pavlishak / ReutersA cat walks among tiny cars at a zoo in the park of...
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
Photographs by Landon Speers As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination...
Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t
Out of the 30 states where measles has been detected in 2026, Florida currently ranks third in case counts. Since...
Hegseth Comes for the Lawyers
One of Pete Hegseth’s first actions after taking charge at the Pentagon was to fire top lawyers in the Army,...
What Was Grammarly Thinking?
To me, the best first sentence of any piece of journalism is the one in Joan Didion’s 1987 book, Miami,...
What Atheism Could Not Explain
Christopher Beha’s path to atheism began in college. Close encounters with death—a brother’s car accident, his own cancer diagnosis—led to...
Who Cares If AI Brings Down the Economy?
The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja,...
‘If You Win One Penny, You’re in the Top 2 Percent of Bettors’
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts From Plato to Charles Barkley, great minds...
The California Housing Revolution That Wasn’t
California knows it needs more housing. The state is the birthplace of the YIMBY movement—“Yes in My Backyard”—and its legislature...
Sucker
Illustrations by Tyler Comrie On a Thursday evening in September, I excused myself from the family dinner table and slipped...
Trump’s War Lacks a Marketing Plan
A year ago yesterday, President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom to try to boost the...
