Science
The Atlantic
Protest Works
How the Black Lives Matter demonstrations will shake up the 2020 election—and reshape American politics for a generation to come
8 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
What to Do About William Faulkner
A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
David Coppereld 's Wild Ride
Armando Iannucci’s mad, loving, and brilliant adaptation of Dickens’s novel
6 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Essay – “No Novel About Any Black Woman Could Ever Be the Same After This”
That’s how Toni Morrison described Gayl Jones’s first book in 1975. Jones has published to great acclaim and experienced unspeakable tragedy. Now she is releasing her first novel in more than 20 years.
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Anatomy of an American Failure – How the virus won
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation.
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Culture & Critics - “How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Hygiene is Overrated
But keep washing your hands.
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?
Thirty years ago, the world discovered tens of thousands of children warehoused in Romanian orphanages, deprived of human contact and affection. They’re adults now.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
FICTION - Deep Cut
“Naw, you don’t have to worry about me,” Thomas said, after his mother had finished her characteristically perfunctory warning to us about drugs, alcohol, and rough-looking types. “Paul thinks he’s cool now, though.” ¶ “Paul, when did this happen?” Mrs. Rickley said. ¶ She wasn’t a hip mom, exactly, but she got points for not caring particularly about what her children or their friends got up to.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
POLICE REFORM IS NOT ENOUGH
The moral failure of incremental change
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
The Collaborators
What causes people to abandon their principles in support of a corrupt regime? And how do they find their way back?
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Florida, Man
The dark soul of the Sunshine State
9 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Supermarkets are a miracle
Why did we ever take them for granted?
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
The Triumph Of The Slob
Keeping a cluttered house has long been considered a little tacky, a little weak … but now it’s looking very wise.
7 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Kevin Kwan – The Shakespeare of Status Anxiety
Kevin Kwan, the author of Crazy Rich Asians, celebrates and skewers the social codes of the wealthy and powerful.
10 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Seamus Heaney – “How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
The Worst Worst Case
The U.S. banking system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Time, Space, and the Virus
How a pandemic transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar
4 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
A Pressidential Guide To Crisis Management
What Trump should have learned from his predecessors
9 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Beware The Digital Cure
Tech companies are helping the government respond to the pandemic. What’s in it for them?
10 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Culture & Critics
So Sad, Can’t Stop Laughing
6 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The 2016 Election Was Just a Dry Run
Russia’s goal was never merely to elect Donald Trump. It was to bring down American democracy. Is Vladimir Putin poised to complete the mission he began four years ago?
10+ min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The Case of the Phantom Papyrus
A renowned Oxford scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment whose text closely matched modern Bibles. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
10+ min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
Operation Firstfruits
Where is the line between journalism and espionage? And what happens when your own government thinks you've crossed it?
10+ min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
Why Birds Do What They Do
The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems.
10 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The Last Night Out
The virus pulled back the curtain on our fraught relationships.
8 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The Special Child
In his unsettling trilogy about a possibly divine boy, J. M. Coetzee asks how we recognize the truth when it enters the world.
10 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
What Takes Our Breath Away
An undertaker reflects on the one thing death can’t steal: our stories.
7 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
A Motherhood Reset
How quarantining showed me what my children had been missing—and what I had, too
9 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
Robert Stone's Dark Dream of America
His novelistic ambition to define the national condition is more relevant than ever.
10+ min |