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The Atlantic
EVERYTHING WE ONCE BELIEVED IN
Trumpism has replaced conservatism's core values with just one: the raw pursuit of power.
10+ min |
May 2025
The Atlantic
What Is Classical Music?
The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.
10 min |
May 2025
The Atlantic
The Anti-Rockwell
R. Crumb’ comics dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.
6 min |
May 2025
The Atlantic
THE HUNGARIAN MODEL
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he's left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
7 min |
May 2025
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What to Make of Miracles
In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus's most wondrous acts.
10+ min |
May 2025
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The Making of Dwyane Wade
Basketball, and what comes after
10+ min |
May 2025
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THE HOLLOW MEN
It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.
6 min |
May 2025
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WHEN I'M 84
THE WORLD STILL NEEDS RINGO STARR.
10+ min |
May 2025
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The New King of Tech
How Jensen Huang built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion business
10 min |
May 2025
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A WARNING OUT OF TIME
How autocrats create spheres of lawlessness
6 min |
May 2025
The Atlantic
THE WORLD PORN MADE
In 1999, the year I turned 16, there were three cultural events that seemed to define what it meant to be a young womana girl-facing down the new millennium.
10+ min |
May 2025
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Who Needs Intimacy?
Influential novelists are imagining what women's lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.
10 min |
May 2025
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Was Integration the Wrong Goal?
Why some mainstream Black intellectuals are giving up on Brown v. Board of Education
10 min |
April 2025
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The Girls of Summer
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZACK WITTMAN 23 The Girls of Summer WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AMERICA'S PASTIME. IT HAS NEVER LOVED THEM BACK.
10+ min |
April 2025
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TURTLEBOY WILL NOT BE STOPPED
A profane blogger believes an innocent woman is being framed for murder. He'll do anything to prove he's right—and terrorize anyone who says he's wrong.
10+ min |
April 2025
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THE FEAR ECONOMY
How Trump is exploiting American capitalism for personal power
9 min |
April 2025
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The Internet Can Still Be Good
Reddit, of all places, suggests how.
7 min |
April 2025
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On Track
The time I spent working on the railroad changed the course of my life.
10+ min |
April 2025
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The Last Great Yiddish Novel
Chaim Grade's Sons and Daughters rescues a destroyed world.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
THE ERA OF MIGHT MAKES RIGHT
In the MAGA vision of the national interest, America will be more like Russia, China, and Iran.
10+ min |
April 2025
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The Cranky Visionary
Albert Barnes believed in the liberating power of art—but you had to look at it his way.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
KOSHER SALT IS ACTUALLY JUST BIG SALT
How did it become so popular?
5 min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
Growing Up Murdoch
Inside the family fight that will determine the future of conservative media
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
When Robert Frost Was Bad
Before he became America's most famous poet, he wrote some real howlers.
10 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
ALL THE KING'S CENSORS
When bureaucrats ruled over British theater
10 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
CAPITULATION IS CONTAGIOUS
By killing a cartoon that lampooned its owner, The Washington Post set a dangerous precedent.
5 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
The Experimentalist
Ali Smith's novels scramble plotlines, upend characters, and flout chronologywhile telling propulsively readable stories.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
The Moron Factory
April 20: Sometimes feel life stinks, everything bad/getting worse, everyone doomed.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
The Warrior's Anti-War Novel
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque invented modern war writing.
8 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
"I Am Still Mad to Write"
How a tragic accident helped Hanif Kureishi find his rebellious voice again
10 min |