Politics
The Atlantic
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
The Atlantic
THE PLOT AGAINST THE HUMANITIES
What is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation doing to higher education?
10+ min |
March 2026
The Atlantic
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
The Atlantic
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
The Atlantic
HOW AMERICA GOT SO SICK
The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.
10+ min |
March 2026
The Atlantic
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
The Atlantic
THE MYSTERY OF HENRY FORDHAM
How did my great-great-grandfather become a free man?
10+ min |
March 2026
The Atlantic
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
AI and the future of work
10+ min |
March 2026
The Atlantic
What Dante Is Trying to Tell Us
A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it.
10 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes says goodbye to the novel
9 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
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.
8 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
GROUNDED
THE SPACE PROGRAM ENNOBLED AMERICAN CULTURE AND ADVANCED AMERICAN SCIENCE. DONALD TRUMP HAS CHOSEN TO END THAT ERA OF AMBITION.
10+ min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
The New History of Fighting Slavery
What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas
10 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
MICAELA WHITE
By the beginning of 2025, there was a famine in Sudan, which meant that it was only a matter of time before the U.S.government dispatched Micaela White to the scene. She was America's fixer of choice.
2 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
WHAT JEFFREY EPSTEIN DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT LOLITA
Everything.
5 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
Who Gets to Be Indian- And Who Decides?
The very American story of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance
10+ min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
I'm Not From the Government but I'm Here to Help
The Trump administration is trying to eliminate federal services? Fine. I'll do everything myself.
10+ min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
How Bad Bunny Did It
The Super Bowl headliner doesnt care if you understand his lyrics.
7 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
FOOLERY, FOPPERY, AND FINERY
America went to extraordinary lengths to throw off the rituals of monarchy. Why would we fall for royal trappings now?
6 min |
February 2026
The Atlantic
THE TRIUMPH OF INDECENCY
Or, the importance of being appalled
7 min |
February 2026
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 |