Animals-and-Pets
The Atlantic
The Great Republican Revolt
The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war. Can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?
10+ min |
January 2016
The Atlantic
A Surging Group of American Teens Are Excelling At Advanced Math. Why?
What’s behind the surge in American teens who are highly fluent in high-order math.
10+ min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
Why Attacking ISIS Won’t Make Americans Safer
Presidential candidates claim that attacking ISIS will make Americans safer. The opposite is true.
7 min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
Can This Man Save U.S. Soccer?
An expert teacher’s efforts to rescue the sport from mediocrity, by starting with its coaches.
9 min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
How America Is Putting Itself Back Together
Most Americans believe the country is going to hell. They’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal and about how the Second Gilded Age might end.
10+ min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
Inside a Plot to Overthrow the President of the Gambia
What happened when 11 audacious exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia.
10+ min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
TV's Fake Language Master
How one linguist creates obsessively detailed and fully functional languages for Game of Thrones and other shows.
9 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Future Will Be Quiet
Why you might not hear sirens, airplanes, or leaf blowers anymore.
6 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
A Midlife Career Shift Could Help You Live Longer
A midlife career shift can be good for cognition, well-being, and even longevity.
10 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Art of Marketing Marijuana
How to make pot seem as all-American as an ice-cold beer.
7 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Resurrections of David Bowie
What made him one of rock’s most potent lyricists.
7 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Truth About Abolition
The movement gets the big, bold history it deserves.
9 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
A Guide to Escaping the Algorithms and Your Own Musical Ruts
A guide to escaping the algorithms and your own musical ruts.
9 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Return of the Black Panther!
A behind-the-scenes look at the revival of Marvel’s first black superhero series, from its fantastical and historical inspirations to early sketches - plus an exclusive preview of the first issue.
5 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Obama Doctrine, in the President's Own Words
The president explains his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
10+ mins |
April 2016
The Atlantic
Payday Lending: Will Anything Better Replace It?
Payday lending is a scam, a scourge, an abomination and as the backlash against it grows, it is slowly being regulated out of existence. Will anything better replace it?
10+ min |
May 2016
The Atlantic
How Warren Buffett's Son Would Feed the World
Howard G. Buffett has spent most of his life as a farmer, with little financial support from his father until recently. Now he runs a multibillion-dollar foundation dedicated to ending world hunger.
10+ min |
May 2016
The Atlantic
How Islam Created Europe
In late antiquity, Islam split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent.
4 min |
May 2016
The Atlantic
How Americans Lost Faith In The Presidency
The Vietnam War opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.
8 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
The Ideas Of The Year 2015
A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are informing our national conversation and shaping our lives.
10+ min |
July - August 2015
The Atlantic
How The New Political Correctness Is Ruining Education
Todays college students can't seem to take a joke.
10+ min |
September 2015
The Atlantic
The Coddling of the American Mind
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like, and seeking punishment of those who give even accidental offense. Here's why that's disastrous for education - and likely to worsen mental health on campus.
10+ min |
September 2015
The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Letter To My Son
"And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white." - James Baldwin
10+ min |
September 2015
The Atlantic
American Foreign Policy and the Surge Fallacy
Having misunderstood the lessons of the Iraq War, Republicans are taking a dangerously hawkish turn on foreign policy.
8 min |
September 2015
The Atlantic
How The Bankers Stayed Out Of Jail
The probes into bank fraud leading up to the crash have been quietly closed. Has justice been done?
7 min |
September 2015
The Atlantic
Virtual Reality Gets Real
Will you ever see the sun again?
6 min |
October 2015
The Atlantic
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Part III-V
Two years after being named NBPA president, the Clippers guard dishes for the first time on Michele Roberts, Donald Sterling and the players looming battle with owners. (Hint: They want revenge.)
10+ min |
October 2015
The Atlantic
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Part VI-IX
In saving the sacred cow, those whose lives depend on dead animals are being robbed of their livelihood.
10+ min |
October 2015
The Atlantic
If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy
As government agencies and tech companies find ever more intrusive ways to influence and probe our thoughts and behavior, one man considers how to stay human in the panopticon.
10+ min |
November 2015
The Atlantic
Hollywood On The Yellow Sea
Wang Jianlin, one of Chinas richest men, is creating a rival to the American dream factory, from scratch.
10+ min |