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“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian.

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The internet could be on the verge of a total meltdown.

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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 growing calls for Medicare for All.

A crucial midterm contest is happening right now in Texas, one that could determine the future of the state and its influence on federal policy and national politics.

Up until a few years ago, you could be forgiven for never having heard much about data centers.

Ten years ago, I found myself in Lusaka, Zambia, sitting at a table with a group of extraordinary writers.

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Today The Atlantic launches “50 Unforgettable Love Stories,” a new editorial project that highlights stories of romantic love.

Marisa G.

Centuries before bookstores had shelves labeled ROMANCE and fictional hockey players locked eyes across the ice, the love story, with all of its attendant joys and sorrows, was an organizing principle of life—and of literature.

Donald Trump has spent nearly two years investigating, suing, or prosecuting anybody in politics, media, or government who ever defied him.

The shortest flight path from Russia to the United States would take an enemy bomber over the North Pole and across Canadian airspace.

The clouds, piled in a dark heap over the Blueberry Ridge mobile-home park in Wells, Maine, looked like they would open up any minute.

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Over the next eight weeks, as winter envelopes Ukraine, Russia plans to use the frigid weather as a weapon.

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It was fitting that, just hours after the first public screenings of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary began last Thursday, Elon Musk put on a show of his own.

At 8 p.m. on Sunday night, President Emmanuel Macron delivered a national address to condemn the rioting and looting that convulsed France this weekend, from Brittany to Perpignan.

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On October 14, the publisher Faber & Faber announced that it would stop selling books by the Irish novelist Sally Rooney in the United Kingdom.

Donald Trump Jr. had a simple vision for his father’s foreign policy during the 2024 presidential campaign: If elected, Donald Trump was going to keep America out of another war in the Middle East.

“There are some reasons to be president,” Donald Trump mused at a rally in Georgia earlier this month.

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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In the past few weeks, President Trump has seemingly done an about-face in his support for Ukraine and president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Next month, just in time for the holidays, Lego will launch its largest set yet: a miniature version of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia.

When I first set out to report and write about what we now call the food system, I ran into a brick wall with editors in New York.

President Trump has previously called climate change a “hoax” and a “scam.”

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In this new season of Autocracy in America, host Anne Applebaum sits down with leaders in politics, technology, and culture to discuss what can be done now to reverse the slide t…

One might think that the meaning of a word as common as strategy is clear, but it is not.

For the first time since the dawn of the automobile, the majority of new cars are not powered exclusively by gasoline: So far in 2026, electric vehicles and hybrids are outselling traditional gas-powered cars.

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This year, the Trump administration gave federal firefighters a mandate: no more letting fires burn.

In 1996, during the early years of the web, I could see that those of us who were participating online were creating an extraordinary new record of human activity—and allowing it to disappear almost as quickly as we made it.

In 1989, the year the West won the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama published an essay announcing “the end of history.”

“Isn’t that illegal?”

Suddenly, Canada is in the middle of a defense boom.

Ever since Zohran Mamdani exhilarated the left with his out-of-nowhere mayoral campaign, mainstream Democrats have been dejectedly searching for an inspirational figure of their own.

How’s this for a job offer?

A new boogeyman arrived in Democratic campaign ads this year with such force that it was possible to forget it had ever been absent.

Senator Susan Collins desperately needed to change the subject.

President Trump’s inexplicable decision to waive some sanctions on Russia, announced late Friday, essentially gives a pass to the forces of evil in the Kremlin.

In the past week, the president of the United States has conclusively turned America into an ally of the Russian Federation.

Asked to list 10 things I’ve lost, I faltered.

This is the moment I knew that the whole vibrator thing had gone too far: It was about a year ago, and I’d ordered a replacement rabbit, the model I’d fallen for around 2007, amid the vibrator renaissance brought about by Sex and the City.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube One of the paradoxes of our moment is that the excesses of Donald Trump’s presidency seem to demand our obsessive attention, while Trump himself obviously thrives on that attention—and all of the social d…

Apes don’t develop Alzheimer’s—at least, not like we do.

Perhaps Elizabeth Holmes was simply ahead of her time: Today, the Theranos founder’s crimes look less notorious amid a pervasive culture of grift and graft.

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