Science
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STRUCK
What getting hit by lightning does to the body and mind
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April 2026
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LEAVING THE UNITED STATES BEHIND
The Cruz family spent years building a life in New York. Then the risks of staying became too great.
10+ min |
April 2026
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MY SELF-DRIVING CAR CRASH
The Tesla was driving perfectly—until it wasn't.
8 min |
April 2026
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The Last Days of Franco
Montserrat Roig's classic novel captures Barcelona on the cusp of unimaginable change.
7 min |
April 2026
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INSATIABLE
Indoor rain, windows to nowhere, and reanimated nuclear reactors- how the race to power AI is remaking the physical world
10+ min |
April 2026
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THE WOMEN OF AVENGER FIELD
THEY BRAVELY SERVED AS PILOTS IN WORLD WAR II. THEN AMERICA FORGOT THEM.
10+ min |
April 2026
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The Unbearable Lightness of Signalgate
Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced serious consequences.
10+ min |
April 2026
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Robyn Is Still Dancing On Her Own
The queen of poptimism takes up motherhood and midlife desire.
5 min |
April 2026
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The College-Educated Working Class
Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?
10+ min |
April 2026
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THAT 1930s FEELING
How dark fringes reached the center of the Republican Party
10 min |
April 2026
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THE COST OF BEING UNINSURED
My aunt couldn't afford to go to the hospital. She ended up there anyway.
7 min |
April 2026
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Deadlier Than Gettysburg
How the cruelty of the Confederacy's prison camps gave rise to the rules of war
10 min |
March 2026
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THE MAN WHO BROKE PHYSICS
One of the pleasures of watching Ilia Malinin, apart from his indifference to gravity, is to witness him becoming.
10+ min |
March 2026
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How Toni Morrison Saw History
In her novels, she located the missing story of Black America.
10+ min |
March 2026
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The Madness of Lord Tennyson
The Victorian poet was startlingly modern.
5 min |
March 2026
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THE PLOT AGAINST THE HUMANITIES
What is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation doing to higher education?
10+ min |
March 2026
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Why Do Democrats Hate Winning?
Ken Martin has one of those resting dread faces, as if he's bracing for someone to dump a bucket of rocks on his head.
10+ min |
March 2026
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ROD DREHER'S DEMONS
HE DERIDES THE ENLIGHTENMENT, SECULARISM, AND THE MODERN WORLD. CONSERVATIVES-INCLUDING THE VICE PRESIDENT-ARE JOINING HIM ON A MARCH BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES.
10+ min |
March 2026
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Every Nation for Itself
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century's international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
10+ min |
March 2026
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The Secrets of Indigenous Art
Major exhibits are upending the way people understand Native American and Aboriginal artists.
10+ min |
March 2026
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The Novel as Extended Op-Ed
If anyone could write good fiction about immigration, it would probably be Lionel Shriver. Instead, her latest book goes off the rails.
10 min |
March 2026
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Never Say No
Does Pam Bondi have any red lines?
10+ min |
March 2026
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HOW AMERICA GOT SO SICK
The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.
10+ min |
March 2026
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The Unfinished Revolution
The November issue examined the founding of the United States and brought the nation's history to bear on its present—and its future.
5 min |
March 2026
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THE MYSTERY OF HENRY FORDHAM
How did my great-great-grandfather become a free man?
10+ min |
March 2026
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What's the Worst That Could Happen?
AI and the future of work
10+ min |
March 2026
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What Dante Is Trying to Tell Us
A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it.
10 min |
February 2026
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Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes says goodbye to the novel
9 min |
February 2026
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IS THIS WHAT PATRIOTISM LOOKS LIKE?
Why an ex—police officer assaulted a fellow cop on January 6
10+ min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
THE PURGED
DONALD TRUMP'S DESTRUCTION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE IS A TRAGEDY NOT JUST FOR THE ROUGHLY 300,000 WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN DISCARDED, BUT FOR AN ENTIRE NATION.
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