Animals-and-Pets
The Atlantic
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
White Noise Used to Be Satire
What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
The End of Us
Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? A disparate group of thinkers says yes-and that we should welcome our demise.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
The Prophecy of The Waste Land
One hundred years after the publication of LT. S. Eliot's masterwork, its vision has never been more terrifying.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
The Reinvention of the Catholic Church
Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isnt on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.
10 min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG
THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED
10+ min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU
The question is how.
9 min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE
To my grandmother, and perhaps. the country whose resilience she shares
4 min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
THE LOOMING REVOLT OVER HOMELESSNESS
Liberals know how to solve the problem. Why dont they?
10 min |
January - February 2023
The Atlantic
Siegfried & Roy – The Original Tiger Kings
The improbable rise and savage fall of Siegfried & Roy
10+ min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
Good Luck, Mr. Rice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
10+ min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
The Literature of Paranoia
Living in Turkey has made Orhan Pamuk a master of the genre.
10+ min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
The Long History of Russian Brutality
What the fratricidal fury of the country's civil war a century ago can teach us about the invasion of Ukraine
10+ min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
The Trap
What it takes to make it in hip-hops new capital
9 min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
Take a Chance on Them
ABBA makes a triumphant return.
5 min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
LET PUERTO RICO BE FREE
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.
10+ min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
THE SCAPEGOAT
A MUSEUM CURATOR WAS FORCED OUT of HER JOB OVER ALLEGATIONS of RACISM THAT AN INVESTIGATION DEEMED UNFOUNDED. WHAT DID HER DEFENESTRATION ACCOMPLISH?
10+ min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
BAD LOSERS
Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.
9 min |
November 2022
The Atlantic
The Myopia Generation
Why do so many kids need glasses now?
10+ min |
October 2022
The Atlantic
Who Do the Benin Bronzes Belong to?
Thousands of pieces of art were looted by the British in what is now Nigeria, and are held mostly in Western museums. What to do with them is a harder question than it might seem.
10+ min |
October 2022
The Atlantic
The Operator
The journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a knack for inserting himself into the pivotal moments of Ukraine's history. I wanted to see the war through his eyes.
10+ min |
October 2022
The Atlantic
The Wedding Present
As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after the war. I've been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
JOHN ROBERTS'S LONG GAME
Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?
10 min |
October 2022
The Atlantic
The Roots of Republican Extremism
Three new books attempt to trace the GOP's break with reality.
10+ min |
October 2022
The Atlantic
The Diagnosis Trap
Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. But what about the stories we tell ourselves?
10+ min |
October 2022
The Atlantic
Cursive Is History
My students can't read script. How will they interpret the past?
7 min |
October 2022
The Atlantic
A World Without White People
Mohsin Hamid's empty parable of race transformation
10+ min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
"We Need To Take Away Children."
The secret history of the U.S. government's family-separation policy
10+ mins |
September 2022
The Atlantic
The Greatest Talker of His Time
Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?
10+ min |