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David Ramos / Getty Members of Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls build a human tower during the 30th Concours de Castells competition in Tarragona, Spain, on October 4, 2026.

Mike Isaac is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer later this year.

A decade ago, an Apple executive named Phil Schiller had a message for people using computers that were more than five years old.

The principle that government ought to be administered for the benefit of all citizens, not on behalf of one political party, lies at the core of America’s democratic enterprise.

Rachel Somerstein thought it would be “really wonderful and fun to have three children.”

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Photographs by Julia Sellmann When Freddy Marquez was 12, he was hit by a motorcycle while biking and smashed his face into the pavement.

Hours after the United States snatched Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas in a Special Forces operation, Marco Rubio strode into the side chapel of Saint Augustine Catholic Parish in Miami surrounded by a phalanx of Secret Service agents.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters launched a surprise attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

Sharing the culture you love—a beloved song, that book that changed your life—can help translate your inner world to the people you love.

The wind brings the circus to a lonesome town upstate, and puffins to the Isle of May,    seagirt, desolate.

Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, has often said that AI will cure most diseases in the next 10 years.

Not so long ago, heroic public statuary felt irrelevant—good for locating yourself in traffic circles but otherwise dismissed as a relic of some credulous, great-man-besotted past.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Long before he became famous as the author of The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt was a social psychologist whose work revolutionized the field.

Mormons have sometimes called themselves a “peculiar people,” and statistically, they have been.

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The university where the term artificial intelligence was coined is ringing in the field’s 70th birthday in fitting fashion: with an academic-integrity scandal.

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Earlier this year, one of my fishing partners sent a 1 a.m. message to our group chat.

One of humanity’s most remarkable cultural achievements is the division of explanatory labor.

Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist best known for his opposition to critical race theory, has portrayed his career as one devoted to upholding meritocracy.

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight.

What I’m about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.

The Kennedy Center Honors was once one of the biggest nights in Washington, which may not be saying much in a city that’s more blue blazer than red carpet.

For a few minutes on Wednesday night, the New York Film Festival crowd watched Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced ex-CEO and founder of the medical start-up Theranos, and her partner, Billy Evans, as they seemingly went about their lives at a San Diego beach…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube The flood of reports about AI agents escaping and hacking websites can feel scary.

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When I was a boy, my small-town-attorney father had a client who paid his legal bills not in money but in deliveries of homegrown tomatoes.

In 2022, I went to Vienna to write about Joseph Roth, who had come to the city of Mozart and Beethoven more than a century earlier to fashion himself into a cosmopolitan writer, down to the three-piece suit and monocle.

Pavel Bednyakov / AP A model wears a creation inspired by Russian fairy tales on September 29, 2026, during Moscow Fashion Week.

Last week, after Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” ended its 23rd week as the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, she took to Instagram to express gratitude.

Imagine that you’re one of the 3.8 million American teenagers on track to graduate from high school next spring.

My first time reading James Patterson was an experience I’ll never forget, though I’ve tried.

The following article contains spoilers for the film Digger.

As Democrats have grown more hopeful that they might win control of the U.S.

Last week, as the war with Iran dragged into its seventh month, gas prices shot up to an average of $4.50 a gallon, and polling showed President Trump about twice as far underwater with American voters as he was at this point in 2018, Republican senators…

At about 6 p.m. last night, the Supreme Court lifted a temporary stay placed on the execution of Christa Pike, a Tennessee woman who was found guilty of joining two accomplices in murdering a classmate in 1995, when Pike was 18 years old.

The Princess Bride.

Allow me to introduce myself.

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It is a strangely comforting truth that the end of the world, at least as storytellers imagine it, is always the beginning of another.

Phases of intense dysfunction and frustration in American public life have tended to be followed by periods of reform, when some of the rules that govern our institutions are adjusted.

One evening in 2024, a female undergraduate at Cornell University went to meet a friend of hers at the Chi Pi fraternity house.

Photographs by Maciek Nabrdalik One evening this summer, in the village of Bezdonys, in eastern Lithuania, I watched as a platoon of riflemen arrived at a train station occupied by enemy forces.

President Trump is deeply unpopular, and his party is on track to lose badly in the midterm elections.

Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse.