Animals-and-Pets
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Fast Times and Mean Girls
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
9 min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
The TALENTED MR.VANCE
J. D. Vance could have brought the country's conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.
10+ min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
THE WORLD’S HARDEST BLUFFING GAME
Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?
8 min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
WITNESS
Sin and redemption in America's death chambers
10+ min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
The Clones Are Here
Faster horses, superior cattle, immortal pets the big business of animal cloning
10+ min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
The Canonization of James Joyce
Richard Ellmann's biography made the novelist a hero to generations of readers and scholars.
10 min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
FEUDALISM IS OUR FUTURE
We may already be entering anew dark age.
10+ min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
When Mick Jagger Met the King of Zydeco
Clifton Chenier pioneered a new kind ofblues—and changed rock history, too.
9 min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
THE Tracy Anderson WAY
INSIDE THE EXCLUSIVE, OBSESSIVE, SURPRISINGLY LITIGIOUS WORLD OF LUXURY FITNESS
10+ min |
July 2025
The Atlantic
The Secret to Happiness
Alison Bechdel has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.
9 min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
HOW THE CHICKEN SANDWICH CONQUERED AMERICA
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
5 min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
When Buckley Met Baldwin
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn't go quite as Buckley hoped.
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
The Not at All Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow's biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
Lost at Sea
ON MY FIRST TIME OUT AS A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN, MY SHIP SANK, MY CAPTAIN DIED, AND I WAS LEFT ADRIFT AND ALONE IN THE PACIFIC.
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
IS IAN STILL IN THERE?
People in a vegetative state may be far more conscious than was once thought.
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
Is popular culture really in terminal decline?
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
Donald Trump Enjoying Is This
The president explains how he plans to change America forever.
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
WE'RE ALL LIVING IN A CARL HIAASEN NOVEL
In the mangroves with Florida's poet of excess and grift
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
Return of the Shaman
How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics
5 min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
From Hollywood to Hitler
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann asks why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
10 min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
MAIL BY MULE
Neither snow nor rain nor 2,000-foot cliffs can stop them.
7 min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
THAT '70s FEELING
Trump's tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.
7 min |
June 2025
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
The Atlantic
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
The Atlantic
The Making of Dwyane Wade
Basketball, and what comes after
10+ min |
May 2025
The Atlantic
THE HOLLOW MEN
It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.
6 min |
May 2025
The Atlantic
WHEN I'M 84
THE WORLD STILL NEEDS RINGO STARR.
10+ min |