Science
The Atlantic
'May be We Have Swung Too Far Toward Being Empathetic'
Seth Meyers on impostor syndrome, Oprah 2020—and whether media elites try too hard to feel the pain of Trump voters
9 min |
June 2018
The Atlantic
A Muslim Among The Settlers
What happens when a Pakistani American writer goes deep into the West Bank?
10+ min |
June 2018
The Atlantic
The audacious plan to save this man's life by transplanting his head
And what would happen if it actually worksLike a little white Lazarus with red eyes, the paralyzed mouse was walking again.
10+ min |
September 2016
The Atlantic
Hidden Depths
David Attenborough’s latest documentary gorgeously reveals the world’s oceans—and shows how badly we’re screwing them up.
6 min |
April 2018
The Atlantic
Alec Baldwin Gets Under Trump's Skin
Comedy and tragedy in an age of political chaos
10+ min |
May 2017
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Guardian Of The Vote
Barbara Simons, a pioneering computer scientist, believes there is only one safe voting technology: paper.
8 min |
December 2017
The Atlantic
Shark Tank Nation
The Rise Of Capitalist reality TV
6 min |
December 2017
The Atlantic
Why The Saudis Are Going Solar
The fate of one of the biggest fossil-fuel producers of the past 40 years may now depend on its investment in renewable energy.
10+ min |
July - August 2015
The Atlantic
What Inspired The Summer Of Love?
Love, sure-but mostly drugs
6 min |
July/August 2017
The Atlantic
What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?
What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?
2 min |
July/August 2017
The Atlantic
China's Great Leap Backward
China is less free, less open, and more belligerent than it was five years ago, or even 10. It has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. Our correspondent, long a China optimist, considers a darker future—and asks what a more dangerous and adversarial China would mean for the United States.
10+ min |
December 2016
The Atlantic
How To Die
As a psychotherapist, Irvin Yalom has helped others grapple with their mortality. Now he is preparing for his own end.
9 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
License-Plate Marriages
YOU CAN marry for love, you can marry for money, or, in Beijing, you can marry for a license plate.
2 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
The Big Question
Q: What Crime Most Changed The Course Of History?
2 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
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A YELLOW TAXI CIRCLES the airport; mist over LaGuardia; rumor of improvised explosive device; a bald Nigerian hack listening to incensed propagandists on WOR, his cab merging with the vortex; and behind the Plexiglas, an entrepreneurial American capitalist half his age, iPhone perpetually to her per fect pink ear, hair dark as a tiger’s stripe.
8 min |
October 2016
The Atlantic
Can A Black Woman Win The Presidency Today?
The senator from California has always been cautious, but since announcing her candidacy she’s grown bolder. Can a black woman win the presidency today—and what compromises must she make to do so?
10+ min |
May 2019
The Atlantic
How the New Preschool Is Crushing Kids
Today’s young children are working more, but learning less.
10 min |
January 2016
The Atlantic
The Future of Pets
Of micropigs and tweeting dogs.
6 min |
January 2016
The Atlantic
Marc Maron’s Brilliant Mistakes
The star podcaster’s success is rooted in his earlier failure and despair.
6 min |
January 2016
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 |