Animals-and-Pets
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 |
September 2021
The Atlantic
RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP IS A LIE
How to convince Americans that firearms won’t make them safer
10 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Quiet Moments
In 2009 and 2010, while on assignment in Afghanistan’s Helmand, Kunar, and Wardak provinces, the photographer Adam Ferguson took a break from his journalistic work documenting the war to create portraits of American service members.
2 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
PLAN Z FOR IMMIGRATION
“A moral failing and a national shame.”
6 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success.
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The 9/11 Century
Twenty years on, how should we think about the worst terrorist attack in American history?
9 min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
Blame the Bobos
The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction.
10+ min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
Why Millennials Are So Obsessed With Dogs
The only thing getting me through my 30s is a cranky, agoraphobic chihuahua named Midge.
10 min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
Boris Johnson – Inside The Controlled Chaos Of Downing Street
Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing
10+ min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
The World Kodak Made
The tech giant of the 20th century changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country— and built the city where it made its home. Now Kodak and Rochester are trying to reinvent themselves, and escape their history.
10+ min |