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The Atlantic
You Had to Be There
An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
By the Horns
The week before the biggest bullfight of her career, in Cádiz, Spain, this past July, 24-year-old Miriam Cabas posted a carefully produced video on Instagram.
1 min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
The New German War Machine
After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
The Eloquence
The prime minister was watching a disaster movie when we found him.
4 min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
What's for Dinner, Mom?
The women who want to change the way America eats
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
How Terror Works
A 1947 German novel explores the sometimes corrosive, sometimes energizing nature of fear.
8 min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
Yesterday's Idea of a Modern Man
Sam Shepard, a self-made cowboy, was also a poet of masculine angst.
7 min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
ACCOMMODATION NATION
America's colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
Respect the Drummer
A new history of rock, told through its overlooked heroes
5 min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN SCIENCE
WHY IS ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SO CONVINCED HE'S RIGHT?
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
THE MYSTERY OF MOHAMMAD TAJIK
A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he'd reveal his country's secrets. But first he had a game to play.
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
THE COMMONS
In the September issue, Anne Applebaum documented the anarchy and greed of Sudan's devastating civil war.
5 min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
Postcolonial Chicken
The U.S. introduced fast food to the Philippines. Now Jollibee is serving it back to America.
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
BRING BACK THE NEOCONS
They could be an antidote to Trumpism.
10+ min |
January 2026
The Atlantic
The Realist Magic of Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass author tells us how to love this world. It's not easy.
9 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
We Are Not One
When it came into view, Doctor Rustin was struck by its size.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
THE COMING ELECTION MAYHEM
Donald Trump's plans to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos are already under way.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The One and Only Sammy
The astonishing, confounding career of Sammy Davis Jr.
7 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
GET A REAL FRIEND
The false promise of AI companionship
10 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
PRESIDENT FOR LIFE
Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.
10 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The Last of the Literary Outdoorsmen
Thomas McGuane—fisherman, hunter, rancher, writer—says “good riddance” to his kind.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
THE MISSING KAYAKER
What happened to Ryan Borowardı?
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The Man Who Rescued Faulkner
How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition
9 min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
Patti Smith's Lifetime of Reinvention
Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
Why I Run
Ten years ago, when I turned 40, my father posted a birthday message on my Facebook page that was visible to all of my friends and followers.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
The Dead Zones
By mid-century, many places in the United States may be uninhabitable.
10+ min |
December 2025
The Atlantic
THE BEACON OF DEMOCRACY GOES DARK
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
8 min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
WHOSE INDEPENDENCE?
The question of what Jefferson meant by \"all men\" has defined American law and politics for too long.
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
WE HOLD THESE TURKEYS TO BE DELICIOUS
When John Adams arrived in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress, he immediately went out to eat.
5 min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS NAP
How “Rip Van Winkle” became our founding folktale
10+ min |