Would You Go Back to a Time Before Smartphones If You Could?

Toward the end of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus and Penelope finally see each other after 20 years apart. Odysseus, disguised as...

The MAGA Movement’s New British Crush

Americans have two stereotypes of Britain. The first is the cozy, parochial world portrayed in my country’s biggest cultural exports—the...

How to Be a Tourist at Home

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

The Problem With Shutting Down ICE in Blue States

Photographs by Klaus Galiano It was probably inevitable that the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, would...

A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama

Suavity is a sorely missed ingredient in the American presidency. The effortless charm of a Roosevelt or a Reagan, a...

The Mounting Cost of War

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When You’ll Know You’re Middle-Aged

The only thing anyone can reliably tell you about middle age is that it’s in the middle of life. What’s...

How to Open Yourself Up to a New Passion

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to...

Even Trump Can’t Spin This One

If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting his supporters to accept them....

Washington, the Useful Abolitionist

In 2010, the National Park Service installed an outdoor exhibit at the President’s House Site near Independence Hall in Philadelphia,...

The Ticking Clock on the Strait of Hormuz

Back in June, at the closing press conference for the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, Donald Trump explained why he had...

Public Health Needs MAHA

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office, more than a year ago, I’ve been trying to understand the MAHA movement...

Trump’s Trigger Warnings

Incensed by the Smithsonian but lacking immediate power to do anything about it, Donald Trump has resorted to trolling the...

Saudi Arabia Learns the Limits of Pay to Play