Science
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 |
March 2025
The Atlantic
BEHOLD MY SUIT!
A LIFETIME OF FASHION MISERY COMES TO AN END.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
WHY THE COVID DENIERS WON
Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath
10 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
CAN EUROPE STOP ELON MUSK?
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
9 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Bridget Jones Never Gets Old
How the beloved British diarist outlasted her critics
5 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Stuck In Place
Why Americans stopped moving houses-and why that's a very big problem
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Who's Your Mommy?
I knew that becoming a parent would change me. I just didn't know how.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Apocalypse, Constantly
Humans love to imagine their own demise.
9 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
A Palestinian American Sex and the City
Betty Shamieh's debut novel is a rebellious rom-com.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
Modi's Failure
Why India is losing faith in its strongman leader
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It's changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
The Wild Charity of Saint Francis
The guide we need, now that kindness is countercultural
5 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
Where Han Kang's Nightmares Come From
In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her countrys bloody past.
9 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
TROPHY HUNTERS
A GROUP OF CHILDHOOD FRIENDS PULLED OFF A STRING OF THE MOST AUDACIOUS SPORTS-MEMORABILIA HEISTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THEN THEY DID SOMETHING REALLY CRAZY.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
THE NEW RASPUTINS
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
9 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
ARMY OF GOD
AMERICAN CHRISTIANS ARE EMBRACING A CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT KNOWN AS THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION, WHICH SEEKS TO DESTROY THE SECULAR STATE. Now THEIR WAR BEGINS.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
WHAT NOT TO WEAR
The false promise of seasonal-color analysis
7 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
JOE ROGAN IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA NOW
What happens when the outsiders seize the microphone?
8 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
MARAUDING NATION
In Trumps second term, the U.S. could become a global bully.
7 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
BOLEY RIDES AGAIN
America’s oldest Black rodeo is back.
10 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
THE GENDER WAR IS HERE
What women learned in 2024
7 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
THE END OF DEMOCRATIC DELUSIONS
The Trump Reaction and what comes next
9 min |