Science
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 |
September 2022
The Atlantic
Rez Life
Sterlin Harjo's genre-mixing, cliché-exploding series captures coming of age as a Native kid like no TV show before it.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
Our Blinding, Blaring World
By flooding the environment with light and sound, we're confounding the senses of countless animals. But we can still save the quiet and preserve the dark.
10+ min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
My Escape From the Taliban
When Kabul fell, my sister and I almost didn't get out.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
The Case for Bodice Ripping
Romance novels have radical ambitions.
10+ min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
Heavenly Hackwork
John Donne was a mystic in bed and a mystic in the pulpit.
5 min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
LET BROOKLYN BE LOUD
Why do rich people love quiet so much?
9 min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
THAT'S IT. YOU'RE DEAD ΤΟ ΜΕ.
Suddenly everyone is "toxic."
10+ min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
The Book That Never Stops Changing
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses
8 min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
Why Is Dad So Mad?
A father dares to explore his rage.
10+ min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
We Have No Nuclear Strategy
The U.S. can't keep ignoring the threat these weapons pose.
10+ min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
A Mad Hunt for Civil War Treasure
Did the FBI steal the gold of dents run?
10+ min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
A White Author Fails Her Black Characters
Geraldine Brooks has sympathy for her protagonists. That’s not enough.
10+ min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
Beach Bummer
The world is burning. Have another piña colada.
10 min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
Back to Chagos
Half a century ago, 2,000 people were forcibly removed from a remote string of islands in the middle of the indian ocean. This year, a group of them set sail for home.
10+ min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
Tracy Flick for Principal
Tom Perrotta's '90s antihero returns.
10+ min |
June 2022
The Atlantic
How Politics Poisoned the Church
The evangelical movement spent 40 years at war with secular America. Now it's at war with itself.
10+ min |
June 2022
The Atlantic
“They're not human beings”
Ukraine and the words that lead to mass murder
10+ min |
June 2022
The Atlantic
Can Forensic Science Be Trusted?
The story of a forensic analyst in Ohio, whose findings in multiple cases have been called into question, reveals the systemic flaws in American crime labs.
10+ min |
June 2022
The Atlantic
Blaming Our Inner Ape
Humans love to pin retrograde gender dynamics on our primate cousins. Is that fair?
10+ min |
June 2022
The Atlantic
Chasing Joan Didion
I visited the writer's California homes, from Berkeley to Malibu. What was looking for?
10+ min |