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Josh Shapiro is having fun, and the crowd is loving it.

The White House’s South Lawn was prepared just so: A full honor guard, complete with American and Chinese flags, stood at attention.

Today, somewhere over Saudi Arabia, the co-pilot of an Israel-bound Flydubai Boeing 737 stabbed the other pilot and pitched the nose of the plane toward the desert below.

The Make America Healthy Again movement has always had a split personality.

The supersize black Sharpie is what gives it away.

“What was your most embarrassing day at work?”

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts about the recent state visit by the Chinese president Xi Jinping to the United States.

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You couldn’t move without bumping into one of them: some man, woman, toddler, or puppet, dressed in a zippered vest and white, heart-patterned boxers.

President Trump thinks it should be illegal for people to criticize the Supreme Court.

For more than half a century after Milton Friedman proposed using taxpayer money to support students in private schools, the libertarian economist’s idea went almost nowhere.

Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining.

A new Israeli documentary provoking both record-breaking festival applause and unhinged condemnation is called NAZA—a title with a suggestive sting.

A Republican fundraising consultant alerted her colleagues this month in a private message about a hot new business opportunity from an unlikely source: Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democrat.

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Many of the most beloved robots in pop culture are celebrated precisely because they are so, well, robotic.

Noom, the popular weight-loss app, prompts its users not only to log their meals and exercise but also to gaze at paintings.

This past weekend, a deplorable minute-long video appeared on my X feed.

Here in Gaza, war has changed everything, even the sea.

Gillian Anderson is an actor, but she has also become something of a fairy godmother for sex.

Today The Atlantic is announcing seven new roles in the newsroom: Sophie Haigney and Robert F.

One of psychology’s most elusive concepts is the idea of the self.

Ana paced near the arrivals terminal of the San Salvador airport, eyeing the door where deportees from the United States are released.

When this year began, the Democrats were heavy underdogs to take back the Senate in the midterms.

The best metaphor for trade negotiations may be trying to arrange a marriage.

A few months ago, Donald Trump’s envoy to Eastern Europe came to the president with a new idea for breaking the deadlock in U.S. relations with Moscow.

Some music pulls you out of yourself, jolting you with the recognition that the person who’s singing is just as complex as you are.

Mohamed bin Zayed was worried about Iran—so worried, in fact, that he decided to gamble with his nation’s future.

Being in San Francisco in the mid-2020s sometimes feels like what I imagine living in Los Alamos was like in 1943, when the Manhattan Project rolled into town.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Nine days after President Trump took office, in 2017, a headline in Time made a bold claim: “Republicans Begin to Break With President Trump.”

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Last Thursday, during a panel discussion at The Atlantic Festival, California Attorney General Rob Bonta seemed confident that the biggest antitrust case Hollywood has seen in decades would go his way.

Over the past couple of months, a trickle of reports about AI models breaking out of their test environments and running amok on the internet have caused alarm inside Silicon Valley.

Veronica Donoso / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards Spectacled Tyrant.

Shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, President Biden asked me to help lead negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage-release deal.

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If there’s one policy proposal that seems to excite the whole spectrum of Democratic politicians, from insurgent left to establishment moderates, it’s universal child care.

Photographs by Meridith Kohut Estela Garcia and 2-year-old Eber repeat their routine every morning: Around 8 a.m., he rustles her awake in the bed they share.

This season, El Niño is offering a glimpse of what the future has in store for California.

Saturday Night Live kicked off Season 52 last night with its version of a big interview: Partway through “Weekend Update,” the co-anchor Michael Che brought on the Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei (played by the cast member Jane Wickline) to addr…

I don’t mean as in when you place your hands the way your grandfather did, fingers just so that when blown into ducks would fly from reeds and sedges, and the assembled hunters in brown canvas would raise their arms to the call, and fire into the unsuspec…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube What would it be like to wake up one day with the ability to greet the world with warmth, patience, grace, and affection?

The world has watched Russia’s war against Ukraine largely through the movement of its front lines.

Don’t you dare go inside the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts!

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If you could look down at the Pacific Ocean right now, you’d see three hurricanes spinning in a row, between 15 and 20 degrees north.

The day the Biden administration celebrated the first major piece of climate legislation in U.S. history, the weather happened to be sublime.

Way back in the wilds of 2013, I organized an event on feminism at a public venue in London.

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