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Why Is Everyone in Silicon Valley Talking Like That?
Did you mix something up? Maybe you’re just “hallucinating.”...
6 days ago
President Trump Has a Pet-Project Docket at the National Parks
The National Park Service changed the way it prioritized projects so that the president’s requests are quickly approved....
6 days ago
Another Pot of Paint Thrown in the Public’s Face
Does AI actually belong in an art museum?...
6 days ago
Resistance 1.0 Was Not Crazy
The much-derided movement was right about Trump’s nature, and how to defeat him....
6 days ago
Ukraine Planned to Swarm Moscow Airports With AI-Guided Drones
The stalled operation, code-named “M&Ms,” sought to isolate Russian elites and force Vladimir Putin to negotiate a truce....
6 days ago
A Stubbornly Naive Group of GOP Senators
A small caucus of non-MAGA Republicans keeps falling for the president’s flimsy promises....
1 week ago
The AI Boom Is About to Make Cars Even More Expensive
Prepare yourself for an average sticker price of $60,000....
1 week ago
The ‘Resistance’ Is Over
The insurgent left cares more about its own factional agenda than the president’s threats to democracy....
1 week ago
Photos: Drone Attacks on Russia’s Wildberries Warehouses
Over the past month, Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russian territory have targeted the online-retail giant Wildberries, destroying massive warehouses and logistics centers. Ukraine has accused Wildbe...
1 week ago
The Case for Chilling Out About Birth Rates
Even if the fertility decline doesn’t reverse itself anytime soon, the consequences are unlikely to be apocalyptic....
1 week ago
What Really Happens If China Wins the AI Race?
For years, the tech industry has portrayed Chinese AI development as an existential threat. The truth is not so straightforward....
1 week ago
There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore
Consumers are ditching the hype cycle and buying used devices in unprecedented numbers....
1 week ago
The Atlantic Announces Ian Bogost and Gabby Deutch as Staff Writers, and Nick Summers and Talya Zax as Senior Editors
Today The Atlantic is announcing four new members of the editorial staff: Gabby Deutch and Ian Bogost as staff writers, and Nick Summers and Talya Zax as senior editors.Ian is a familiar name to Atlan...
1 week ago
The American West Is Quietly Having a Terrible Fire Season
More land has burned so far this year than in any year in the past decade....
1 week ago
Alan Dershowitz Won’t Forget What Larry David Did to Him
He has new friends on Martha’s Vineyard. But his tales of cancellation have not subsided....
1 week ago
Islamophobia Has Corroded American Values
Even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Muslims weren’t treated like this....
1 week ago
The Crime Drama of the Year Is All About Female Rage
The Hulu show Furious is preoccupied with anger that has metastasized into something darker....
1 week ago
Trump Is Putting His Face on Everything
We Americans remember our presidents in all sorts of ways, with monuments and statues, on coins and street signs. Another thing we do is wait—we wait until a president is safely out of office, or dead...
1 week ago
The Incoherence of Trump’s Past Week of Foreign Policy
The president is in disagreement with the vice president, military leaders, and long-standing American allies—but also with reality itself....
1 week ago
The Trump Administration Wanted Her Expertise, Just Not Her
An interview with the transgender CIA analyst fired from Trump’s White House...
1 week ago
NATO’s Nightmare
The U.S. and Europe have no clear plan for a joint attack from Russia and China....
1 week ago
Why Learn Something That a Machine Can Do for You?
Technology may shape how and what we learn, but the act of learning itself is deeply human....
1 week ago
Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation
His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices....
1 week ago
How Trump Left America Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
Experts worry that the water-system hacks may be a warm-up for attacks on the elections in November....
1 week ago
The Truths That Failed Jason Arday
Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor....
1 week ago
What the Last Weeks of Summer Can Offer
The early onslaught of pumpkin-spice products can make it easy to forget what’s so special about the season we’re in now....
1 week ago
Iran’s Long Shadow
Panelists joined to discuss the political consequences of the continued conflict....
1 week ago
Anthony Fauci’s Group Chat Is Making People Lose Their Minds
Can the former NIAID director’s private text messages tell us anything we don’t already know?...
1 week ago
Don’t Expect Russians to Protest the War
Ukraine may have hoped that deeper drone attacks would cause Russians to rise up, but mass demonstrations don’t look likely....
1 week ago
A Democrat in Name Only
Rob Sand isn’t progressive or moderate. What is he trying to be?...
1 week ago
Bumble Was Never Going to Fix Dating Anyway
For the first time, men can initiate contact on the app. It won’t make a difference....
1 week ago
Hollywood’s Most Indestructible Superhero
Spider-Man has always found success, no matter how moviegoers feel about his cape-wearing peers....
1 week ago
A Bleak, Violent Novel’s Unexpected Delights
For the characters in The Disappearers, seeing and being seen are matters of life and death....
1 week ago
Photos of the Week: Mudflat Trot, Waterfall Jump, Pole Vault
A pig-squealing championship in France, the annual City2Surf fun run in Australia, a total solar eclipse over Spain, and much more...
1 week ago
A Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald Reagan
The Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper....
1 week ago
The Dystopia of Modern Singlehood
The plot of One Night Only is extremely silly. It also contains a grain of truth....
1 week ago
Trump Delivers a Win for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption....
1 week ago
U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is a Mess
A new executive order is sowing confusion at a precarious moment....
1 week ago
The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped write the script for the scandals that followed....
1 week ago
Trump’s New Plan to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center
The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak....
1 week ago
Hunger Games, MAGA Style
A gym-class-style competition might be the oddest 250th celebration yet....
1 week ago
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