Science
The Atlantic
The Personal Cost Of Black Success
Two men chronicle their rise into the meritocratic elite, exposing pernicious myths and brutal realities along the way.
10+ min |
November 2018
The Atlantic
Women Are Angry. Now What?
Rebecca Traister Invokes Fury To Unify Women In A Battle Against Men, But Being Mad Can Prove Divisive, Too.
9 min |
November 2018
The Atlantic
Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome
He turned politics into a vicious blood sport, broke Congress, and paved the way for Trumps rise. Now hes reveling in his achievements.
10+ min |
November 2018
The Atlantic
Can The Pentagon Weaponize The Brain?
The Pentagons R&D arm, DARPA, gave us drones and the internet. Now the agency has a new mission: to fold computers into the brain and nervous systemor maybe vice versa. Silicon Valley is eating all of this up.
10+ min |
November 2018
The Atlantic
Wait A Minute!
Instantaneous communication can be destructive.We need to tweak our digital platforms to make time for extra eyes, cooler heads, and second thoughts.
6 min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
The Metamorphosis
AI will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think much harder about how to adapt.
9 min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
Raj Chetty's American Dream
The economist whose work dispelled the myth of social mobility in the U.S. Has a plan to make it a reality.
10+ min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood
Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social-media platform, highlights petty grievances—and proves that Americans have more in common than they think.
6 min |
July/August 2018
The Atlantic
Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
The family battles he described foreshadowed our current national crisis.
9 min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
The Stock-Buy Back Swindle
American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs—at the expense of everyone else.
7 min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
Why The Police Fail To Catch Serial Rapists?
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them.
10+ min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
How Walking Became Pedestrian
Glorified for its creative benefits, the pastime has become yet another goal-driven pursuit.
8 min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
The Original Huckster
P.T. Barnum taught us to love spectacle, fake news, and a good hoax. A century and a half later, the show has escaped the tent.
5 min |
August 2019
The Atlantic
The Women Who Changed Spycraft
An old-boy operation was transformed during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
10 min |
June 2019
The Atlantic
Ethiopia's Image-Maker
Aïda Muluneh, whose vibrant photographs explore national identity, wants to upend portrayals of Africa.
8 min |
June 2019
The Atlantic
Autocorrect
How advances in real-time fact-checking might improve our politics
10+ min |
June 2019
The Atlantic
Eat Food. All The Time. Mostly Junk.
How the “food revolution” turned us into snackers, guaranteeing the demise of healthy home cooking
9 min |
June 2019
The Atlantic
Liberalism's Last Stand
As Viktor Orbán systematically removed all impediments to his autocratic regime, one independent institution stood defiant: a university, in the heart of Budapest, founded by George Soros. The school’s survival became a test of liberalism’s ability to beat back its new ideological foe—in Hungary and beyond.
10+ min |
June 2019
The Atlantic
To Save The Church, Dismantle The Priesthood
Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy— and take the faith back into their own hands.
10+ min |
June 2019
The Atlantic
Alec Baldwin Gets Under Trump's Skin
Comedy and tragedy in an age of political chaos
10+ min |
May 2017
The Atlantic
Hidden Depths
David Attenborough’s latest documentary gorgeously reveals the world’s oceans—and shows how badly we’re screwing them up.
6 min |
April 2018
The Atlantic
'May be We Have Swung Too Far Toward Being Empathetic'
Seth Meyers on impostor syndrome, Oprah 2020—and whether media elites try too hard to feel the pain of Trump voters
9 min |
June 2018
The Atlantic
A Muslim Among The Settlers
What happens when a Pakistani American writer goes deep into the West Bank?
10+ min |
June 2018
The Atlantic
The audacious plan to save this man's life by transplanting his head
And what would happen if it actually worksLike a little white Lazarus with red eyes, the paralyzed mouse was walking again.
10+ min |
September 2016
The Atlantic
The White House Mythmaker
How Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s heroic vision of American presidents led him, and the country, astray
10+ min |
November 2017
The Atlantic
Don't Worry, It's Just a Phase
Imagine a world without the concept of adolescence.
2 min |
May 2018
The Atlantic
Unicorn Fever
The mythical creature rises in uncertain times.
2 min |
May 2018
The Atlantic
Will Disney Kill Off The Movie Theater?
In its quest to beat Netix, it might have to.
9 min |
May 2018
The Atlantic
What Alexa Taught My Father
Legally blind since age 18, he missed out on the rst digital revolution.
6 min |
May 2018
The Atlantic
Mrs. Maisel's Secret
Amazon’s hit show is a fantasy of a woman living in two contradictory worlds at once.
6 min |