Science
The Atlantic
THE END OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE
One of America's greatest achievements could disappear overnight.
10 min |
October 2024
The Atlantic
'Lord, Help Us Make America Great Again' - A close reading of Trump-rally prayers
A week before Christmas, an evangelical minister named Paul Terry stood before thousands of Christians, their heads bowed, in Durham, New Hampshire, and pleaded with God for deliverance. Th e nation was in crisis, he told the Lord— racked with death and addiction, led by wicked men who “rule with imperial disdain.”
10 min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
Seventy Miles in the Darién Gap - The Impossible Pad to America - I went to the Darién Gap in December with the photographer Lynsey Addario because I wanted to see for myself what people were willing to risk to get to the United States.
I went to the Darién Gap in December with the photographer Lynsey Addario because I wanted to see for myself what people were willing to risk to get to the United States. Before making the journey, I spoke with a handful of journalists who had done so before. They had dealt with typhoid, rashes, emergency evacuations, and mysterious illnesses that lingered for months. One was tied up in the forest and robbed at gunpoint. They said that we could take measures to make the journey safer but that ultimately, survival required luck.
10+ min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
An Intoxicating 500-Yearold Mystery - The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars-and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists.
The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars-and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.
10+ min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
Pity the Bad Man
A bold new novel invites the reader to consider the plight of the bullies and the boors.
9 min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
The Wild Adventures of Fanny Stevenson
Her surprising marriage to Robert Louis Stevenson changed literary history.
10+ min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
Does the World Need a Great American Biracial Novel?
The hero of Danzy Senna’ new satire is trying, and failing, to write one.
9 min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
How Greed Got Good Again
In HBO's Industry, Gen Z reveals itself to be just as moneyobsessed as the corporate raiders of Wall Street.
7 min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
My Mother the Revolutionary
She cared about saving the world more than she cared about me.
10+ min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
HOW M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD
The filmmaker weathered some of the wildest hype and harshest backlash that Hollywood has to offer. Then he found a different path.
10+ min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
AMERICAN FURY
For years, experts have warned of a wave of political violence. We should prepare for things to get worse before they get better.
4 min |
September 2024
The Atlantic
Kafka's Not Supposed to Make Sense - Kafka died a century ago this year at the age of 40, and since then a mighty industry has arisen to deliver all of the messages that Kafka said would never be delivered.
It would be foolish to claim that Kafka learned his metaphysical wordplay from Jewish texts alone. He read widely: Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He admired the understated prose of Anton Chekhov and Heinrich von Kleist. He read literary magazines that published cutting-edge work, too. Still, his regular reading of the Bible—nightly, during some periods of his life—contributed a laconic quality to his classical prose that doesn’t make him anachronistic; it makes him original.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
A Novel Without Characters
Rachel Cusk's lonely experiment: Parade. Her new book, a novel of elusive vignettes, it can be seen as an allegory about both fiction and the gendered shapes of selfhood.
10 min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
THE GLACIER RESCUE PROJECT
Can the mighty Thwaites be stopped from tumbling into the sea?
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
The Industry That Ate America
The long and lurid history of lobbying
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
Tornado Watch
How Lee Isaac Chung reimagined Twister, one of the biggest climate-disaster thrillers of all time
8 min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
Too Cute to Fail
Koalas are threatened by climate change, cars, and chlamydia. Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal?
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
THE FIRST THREE MONTHS
What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
THE VALLEY
Searching for the future in the most American city
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
THE AIRPORT-LOUNGE ARMS RACE
Inside the ever more extravagant competition to lure affluent travelers
8 min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
Hypochondria Never Dies
The diagnosis is officially gone, but health anxiety is everywhere.
9 min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
Miranda July's Weird Road Trip
The author's midlife-crisis novel is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy.
9 min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
The Wild Blood Dynasty
What a little-known family reveals about the nation's untamed spirit
9 min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
The Engrossing Darkness of The Crow
Can a cult hit point the way forward for the beleaguered comic-book movie?
5 min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
The Godfather of American Comedy
The funniest people on the planet think there's no funnier person than Albert Brooks.
10+ min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
The History My Family Left Behind
A gun, a lynching, and an exodus from Mississippi
10+ min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
Ozempic or Bust
America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new \"solution\" has failed to live up to its early promise.
10+ min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
THE ART OF SURVIVAL
In living with cancer, Suleika Jaouad has learned to wrench meaning from our short time on Earth.
9 min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
DEMOCRACY IS LOSING THE PROPAGANDA WAR
AUTOCRATS IN CHINA, RUSSIA, AND ELSEWHERE ARE NOW MAKING COMMON CAUSE WITH MAGA REPUBLICANS TO DISCREDIT LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD.
10+ min |
June 2024
The Atlantic
Before Facebook, There Was BlackPlanet
An alternative history of the social web
10+ min |