Animals-and-Pets
The Atlantic
Dangerous Prophecies
The assumption that civil war is inevitable in America is inflammatory and corrosive.
10 min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
Unwrappers' Delight
Americans can’t resist the lure of elaborate packaging.
10 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Autocrats Are Winning
If the 20th century was the story of liberal democracy’s progress toward victory over other ideologies— communism, fascism, virulent nationalism— the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The End Of Trust
Suspicion is undermining the American economy.
7 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Miraculous Sound of Forgiveness
In his thrillingly transgressive opera The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart pulled off his most amazing musical feat.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
How Self-Reliant Was Emerson?
Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, emerged from an exceptionally tight-knit community.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Singularity is Here
Artificially intelligent advertising technology is poisoning our societies.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Martial Art I Can't Live Without
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat.
8 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
Several People Are Typing
Slack made it easier to crack jokes and easier to stir up trouble. Employees love it. Bosses don’t.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Unhappy Returns
What really happens to all the pants that don’t fit
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Snowbirds
Photographs by Naomi Harris
2 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Antiquities Cop
Matthew Bogdanos is on a mission to prosecute the wealthy dealers and collectors who traffic in the looted relics of ancient civilizations.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
Shape-Shifting Animals on an Inhospitable Planet
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, butterflies’ wings are growing stronger.
10 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
In Defense of the Insufferable Music Fan
What we lose when we “like everything”
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
It Didn't Have to Be This Way
A brilliant account of 30,000 years of change upends the bedrock assumptions about human history.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
The Men Who Are Killing American's Newspapers
Inside Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms and damaging democracy
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
The Engineers' Daughter
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. A freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Facebookland
The social giant isn’t just acting like an authoritarian power. It is one.
10 min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
W. G. Sebald, Usurper of Lives.
Germany’s renowned and morally scrupulous novelist ransacked the stories of Jewish lives for his fictions. Does it matter?
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
How I Fell for Formula 1
Netflix got Americans like me to finally care about auto racing. The NFL might want to take notes.
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Unwritten Rules of Black TV
For decades, Black writers and producers have had to tell stories that fit what white executives deemed “authentic.” Can a new generation finally change that?
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard
At last he put aside the pyrotechnics and went all in on his great theme: the American family.
10 min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Where Is Our Paradise of Guilt-Free Sex?
Half a century after the sexual revolution, we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
A new game builds on the addictive appeal of Sid Meier’s Civilization.
8 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Colson Whitehead Subverts the Crime Novel
In a country born of theft, everyone is an accomplice.
10 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Xanax of Stand-Up
Nate Bargatze’s humor is slow, inoffensive, even soothing. And he’s one of the hottest acts in comedy.
9 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Emmett Till – The Barn
In the Mississippi Delta, an unmarked building sits 100 yards from a gravel road. Sixty-six years ago, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up. Four white men rode in the cab. A 14-year-old child was in the back. His name was Emmett Till.
10+ min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
The Would-Be Savior of Patagonia
Are environmental crusaders like Douglas Tompkins good for the planet?
10 min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
This Is The End Of Affirmative Action
We have to face the reality that our education system is, and always has been, separate and unequal.
9 min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
White Progressives in Pursuit of Racial Virtue
What two new books reveal about the moral limits of anti-racist self-help
10+ min |