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“My love is not for places or for lands. My only passion is for the lightning flash,” wrote Ibn Arabi,...

The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man last weekend in Austin, Texas, was a recent hire who was not...

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In 1917, as Canadian troops fought at Vimy Ridge in northern France, Lieutenant Leslie Miller collected acorns from the battlefield...

On October 13 of last year, Hamas released its last living Israeli hostages—20 Jews in various states of disrepair. And...

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

In the spring of 2023, a young Black man stepped onto a subway car in Manhattan. He screamed, threw garbage...

Javier Torres / AFP / GettyAn aerial view of patches of blooming wildflowers in the Atacama Desert near Copiapó, Chile,...

Illustrations by Hélène Blanc When I was 20 years old, I started to sense a hole inside me. The feeling...

J. D. Vance and Abdul El-Sayed have very little in common ideologically and seem to like each other even less....