Music
The Atlantic
Caroline Shaw is Making Classical Cool
Her innovative work won her a Pulitzer Prize at age 30. She’s collaborated with Kanye and Nas. What does her success mean for the long-suffering genre?
9 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Extremely Online and Wildly Out of Control
Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel explores the mind, and heart, of an internet-addled protagonist.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
We Mourn For All We Do Not Know
The Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives provide a window into our heritage—to stories of suffering but also of love, joy, wonder, and survival. They’re an all-too-rare link to ordinary black lives gone by.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
A Forgotten Founder
Prince Hall was a free african american in Boston at a time of revolutionary fervor— and a transformative figure whose story deserves to be reinserted into the tale of America's creation.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
The Second Career of Martellus Bennett
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Committee on Life and Death
As COVID-19 has overwhelmed hospitals, the lack of clear bioethical guidelines has meant that doctors have had to make wrenching life-and-death decisions on the fly. The result has been chaos and unnecessary suffering, among both patients and clinicians. As the country prepares to distribute vaccines, we’re at risk of reprising this chaos.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Covid-19 Manhattan Project
Never have so many researchers trained their minds on a single problem in so brief a time. Science will never be the same.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Making of a Model Minority
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Legacy of Donald Trump
His reign of lies poisoned our minds and our politics, with effects that will long linger. But democracy survived.
8 min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
Jeans Now, Pay Later
Are the new online services that allow you to buy just about anything in installments—interest-free—too good to be true?
8 min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
China's Rebel Historians
Defiant researchers chronicle a past that the Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
How Great Is Martin Amis?
Assessing the legacy of a comic master who grasps for seriousness
6 min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
More Than the Vote
The suffragists’ struggle produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
School Wasn't So Great Before Covid, Either
Yes, remote schooling has been a misery—but it’s offering a rare chance to rethink early education entirely.
10+ min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
THE HISTORIAN WHO SEES THE FUTURE
PETER TURCHIN BELIEVES HE HAS DISCOVERED IRON LAWS THAT DICTATE THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS. HE PREDICTS A DIRE DECADE FOR THE UNITED STATES.
10+ min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
There's No Stopping Santa
The middle of a global pandemic might seem like a good time to cut back on holiday excess. But then, we live in America.
6 min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
The Existential Despair of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Revisiting the most disturbing Christmas special
8 min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn't. This is just the beginning.
10+ min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
Whitewashing the Great Depression
How the preeminent photographic record of the period eclipsed people of color and shaped the nation’s self-image
10+ min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
Death Of A Small Business
“I’m more than just my store,” my father told me. And yet, for nearly his entire adult life, all of his decisions had argued the opposite.
10+ min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
Bringing Politics Into the Classroom
Why it’s impossible—and irresponsible— for teachers in minority communities to ignore the subject
10 min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich
Praised by W. H. Auden as neat and modest, she vowed to be passionate and radical instead.
10 min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
The Bible Without Miracles
Thomas Jefferson preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
6 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Last Exit
Donald Trump’s first term was characterized by theft, lies, corruption, and the incitement of violence. A second term could spell the end of American democracy.
10+ min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Why We're Afraid of Bats
On how we know—and how we learn— what to fear
10 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Fluffing Your Own Nest
Can happiness be found in home improvement?
7 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Why British Police Shows Are Better
When you take away guns and shootings, you have more time to explore grief, guilt, and the psychological complexity of crime.
7 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
The Election That Could Break America
If the vote us close, Donald Trump could easily throw election into chaos. Who will stop him?
10+ min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
American Caudillo
Donald Trump is slowly making the U.S. into a likeness of the countries Latino refugees have been fleeing.
9 min |