Animals-and-Pets
The Atlantic
The Power of the First Lady
How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
How Will We Remember The Pandemic?
The science of how our memories form— and how they shape our future
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
‘It's Always Been About Exclusion'
America is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
Hormone Monsters
Television turns to magicaal realism to explore the trials of early adolescence.
8 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
Can Justice Be Served On Zoom?
COVID-19 has transformed America’s courts.
9 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot
Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Dispatches: America Without God
As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?
10 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Looking Up
When you are an ant, the stakes are always high. There are those who would eat you—birds, snakes, bigger bugs—and those who could trample you and your environment in a single sneakered step. These enormous beings may not mean you any harm, but it is impact, not intention, that matters most.
1 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful
The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Private Schools Are Indefensible
The Gulf between how rich kids and poor kids are educated in America is obscene.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Our Sad Souvenirs of The Pandemic
Americans can’t go anywhere, but we’re still buying the T-shirt.
9 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Beirut – After The Blast
Last summer’s explosion in Beirut killed hundreds of people and damaged much of the city. My efforts to repair my apartment reveal a lot about how Lebanon works—and doesn’t.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID
A growing g number of clinicians are on an urgent quest to find treatments for a frighteningly pervasive problem. They’ve had surprising early success.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
The Relentless Philip Roth
In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent.
6 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
NO, REALLY, ARE WE ROME?
The sack of the Capitol was thwarted. But history suggests that corrosive change can be hard to see while it’s happening.
9 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Tom Stoppard's Double Life
For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Bring Back The Nervous Breakdown
It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.
9 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
When America Became a Democracy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally delivered on the stated ideals of this country. Now it hangs by a thread.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
The United States of Amazon
How the giant company has transformed the geography of wealth and power
10 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Noisy, Ugly, and Addictive
Hyper pop could become the countercultural sound of the 2020s.
8 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World
Even a pandemic can't stop people from buying clothes they don't need.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Caroline Shaw is Making Classical Cool
Her innovative work won her a Pulitzer Prize at age 30. She’s collaborated with Kanye and Nas. What does her success mean for the long-suffering genre?
9 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Extremely Online and Wildly Out of Control
Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel explores the mind, and heart, of an internet-addled protagonist.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
We Mourn For All We Do Not Know
The Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives provide a window into our heritage—to stories of suffering but also of love, joy, wonder, and survival. They’re an all-too-rare link to ordinary black lives gone by.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
A Forgotten Founder
Prince Hall was a free african american in Boston at a time of revolutionary fervor— and a transformative figure whose story deserves to be reinserted into the tale of America's creation.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
The Second Career of Martellus Bennett
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Committee on Life and Death
As COVID-19 has overwhelmed hospitals, the lack of clear bioethical guidelines has meant that doctors have had to make wrenching life-and-death decisions on the fly. The result has been chaos and unnecessary suffering, among both patients and clinicians. As the country prepares to distribute vaccines, we’re at risk of reprising this chaos.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Covid-19 Manhattan Project
Never have so many researchers trained their minds on a single problem in so brief a time. Science will never be the same.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Making of a Model Minority
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
10+ min |