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Donald Trump is presiding over a failing presidency and lashing out at the news media—most recently by banning CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House.

Donald Trump is facing multiple challenges.

I was pinballing/ slamming the back glass/ hitting every outlane/ triggering a ramp shot/ spinning red after years/ of running/nights/ of crashing/I wanted power over something/ anything/thought: what would it look like/ the glistening body/cut open/ the…

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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube For all of history, humans have been fascinated by the heavens above us.

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Jenee Gragston dropped to the ground and held on to the grass as if it could save her life.

Just over three years ago in Guatemala, a coalition of young and Indigenous voters helped propel Bernardo Arévalo, a reformer who campaigned against corruption, to an astounding presidential win.

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In 1946, the year that Donald Trump was born, the pinball machine offered everything but control.

One 27-year-old quit his job, and everybody (including but not limited to the singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow) appears to have lost it.

As the AI industry likes to tell it, superintelligent bots could one day cure cancer and end poverty.

Anxiety about AI in the United States appears to be getting worse.

Emily Wilson has become the most famous living translator of the Homeric epics.

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For a decade, I’ve been a member of a faculty committee that works closely with the athletics department at Northwestern University.

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As the build-out of AI data centers has accelerated, the public has tended to focus on every possible downside of these industrial projects.

Donald Trump says he wants a Europe that is more capable of defending itself.

Jesper Møller Sørensen, the Danish ambassador to Washington, projected an air of calm.

On the first day of his second term in the White House, President Trump signed an executive order on free speech stating that his administration would ensure that “no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that

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Three hours after Thomas Jefferson died at his Monticello home on July 4, 1826, his personal secretary, Nicholas Trist, snipped a lock of the Founder’s gray hair, still faintly reddish blond.

Drew Philp is the winner of the 23rd annual Michael Kelly Award, given by The Atlantic, for his investigative feature “There Will Be No Mercy,” published by The Atavist Magazine in 2025.

For 19 months, Donald Trump has portrayed himself as the Kennedy Center’s savior.

Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty Martin Hill prepares to compete in his jet dragster, named Fireforce 5, at the Euro Finals drag-racing event, at the Santa Pod Raceway near Wellingborough, England, on September 11, 2026.

On September 17, 2001, George W.

At first listen, Neil Young’s new song “Soon I Might Be Going” comes across like a sad shake of the head at the hot and Trumpy 2020s.

If you’re a Democrat, attending a Jon Ossoff rally feels very good.

Since becoming Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F.

In a conversation at The Atlantic Festival with The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg warned fellow members of the Democratic Party to resist the urge to revert to “the previous status quo” if…

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Few reporters understand as much about Donald Trump’s thinking, motives, and behavior as Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

Chen Shuo / Xinhua / Getty A drone photo shows sand-control efforts—straw windbreaks set in checkerboard patterns across dunes—in the Taklimakan Desert, in Yuli County, Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, on Sept…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Twenty years ago, a meditation teacher and doctoral candidate in clinical psychology named Willoughby Britton set out to do a study showing that meditation improves sleep.

AI arrived on campus as a crisis but has since become banal.

“In August of 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed in about nine seconds by a single atomic bomb.”

Therapy can involve a lot of words, but it’s often the pauses that matter most.

At last week’s GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Vice President Vance painted a bleak picture of American life before the second Trump administration: “Two years ago, we have to remember, our nation, ladies and gentlemen, was tired.

The parents of young kids don’t have it easy in the United States.

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“Nature’s silence is its one remark,” Annie Dillard wrote in a 1981 Atlantic essay.

For AI doomers, signs and portents are everywhere.

Among the many aspects of online life accused of rotting our brains, a certain folk psychology holds that short-form video is an especially egregious driver of the decay.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a discussion of the seemingly forgotten attack on the Yazidi people by ISIS in 2014.

Ever since Bill Belichick, that aging football Caesar, arrived at the University of North Carolina roughly two years ago with his eight Super Bowl rings, the knives have been out.

Following America’s recent measles deaths, anti-vaccine activists have cast doubt on the virus as the culprit.

This weekend, the AI executives Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei agreed with the need to slow the pace of AI development.

Silliness, in general, is not hard for me to come by: I have a toddler who is, as she declares often, a “silly person.”