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Kin Cheung / AP A visitor looks into a mirror, the “Inverse Reverse Perverse” installation by Cerith Wyn Evans, during a media preview of “The 90s: Art and Fashion” exhibition at Tate Britain in London on October 6, 2026.

Raleigh stood in the morning sunlight under the big maple with a chainsaw in one hand and a heavy splitting maul in the other looking at his friend of 30 years. ’Course I got mix, he said.

We met by accident.

A man walks into a restaurant.

“Are you sick of depending on your inner beauty?”

Around the same time that the world learned that swarms of autonomous AI agents were escaping their testing environments and carrying out sophisticated hacking attacks this past summer, researchers who focus on election security were running tests of their

Only a few decades ago, Republican presidents would happily evoke the idea of America as a haven for people around the world.

The second floor of OpenAI’s old headquarters had a theme.

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Anne Carson, who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature today, doesn’t write masterpieces or door-stoppers, and she has no interest in emulating the great works of the past—including those of past laureates.

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present.

Yesterday was a reminder of the difficulty that the pro-Palestine left has with showing grace even for the dead.

The following contains spoilers for the film Digger.

For more than a decade, the Philippines has been a test case for how technology enables an authoritarian state to capture and corrode the institutions that make democracy work.

Imagine that you make a business deal with a friend—someone you know and trust.

On many mornings, as New York City is waking up, a diminutive grandmother from Buffalo puts on sneakers and a baseball cap and takes a 45-minute walk with her husband around the streets near their apartment on Manhattan’s East Side.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts The word that the Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick hears often from her FBI sources is desperate, meaning that they believe FBI Director Kash Patel is desperate to please…

As an alarm siren cried out, the 30-year-old Swedish rapper Yung Lean rushed to the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards last month, looking furious.

Illustrations by Hannah Robinson Whenever I receive a text, this is what happens.

This is an edition of Video Village, David Sims’s newsletter that unearths cinematic gems and brings readers into his movie obsession.

Creativity in the context of marriage is a fraught and fascinating subject.

Less than a month out from Election Day, the polls are predicting a Democratic rout.

For 40 years, a huge number of rich business owners have taken advantage of a tax concept known as pass-through income.

The self-styled secretary of war strode confidently across the stage as he outlined his vision for America’s armed forces.

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The Australian government has been scrambling since the revelation that, earlier this year, it was hacked.

I am sure if we explain one more time that we are people They will finally understand why this needs to stop Oh!

After months of on-again, off-again fighting, the United States hasn't struck Iran in several weeks.

Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty People gather on and around a statue in the center of Place de la République at the end of a demonstration on a day of nationwide protests organized by high-school students and joined by unions and teachers, who for days have…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the sudden recall of 12 B-1 bombers from their base in the south of England to the mainland of the United State…

The following article contains spoilers for the TV adaptation of Carrie.

The Social Network was powered by alienation.

9/11 and October 7 have become universal shorthand because of the concentrated, spectacular violence that took place on those days—the sense of total rupture.

The French protest too much.

On the morning of August 18, shortly after 10 a.m., a moving truck stopped in front of our home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, the closest Israeli community to the Gaza border.

Photographs by Christopher Lee The concerns about $4.14-a-gallon gas at the Lincoln Costco an hour and a half to the east?

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President Trump is in a race against time.

Most of Donald Trump’s efforts to control the nation’s largest museum complex have been loud.

In a world on edge still from the last pandemic, rumors of a deadly disease that could have escaped from a lab can cause some understandable distress—however speculative they might be.

At a dive bar deep in coal country, Derek Zoolander, male model, sits with his father and brothers after they’ve spent a long day in the mines.

One of the puzzling things about the online sports-betting boom that has swept through American culture over the past decade is the relative slowness of religious leaders to articulate a moral case against the vice.

Less than 50 years ago, the first child conceived by in vitro fertilization was delivered in Oldham, England.

The scenario is right out of a Stephen King novel: At a medical lab stashed away in a remote Siberian city, a pretty young technician was exposed to a deadly pathogen.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts By now, people who have been paying close attention to this year’s midterm elections have a pretty good idea of the state of play: Democrats hope to gain four seats in the Senate…

Samuel Alito is, with Clarence Thomas, one of the two most conservative sitting Supreme Court justices.

Proponents of the war with Iran have taken recent increases in crude-oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz as proof that the U.S. strategy is finally working.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is again focusing his attention on junior officers and noncommissioned officers.