Culture
The Atlantic
The Joy and the Funk and the Mire
The critic dream hampton thinks hip-hop is broken. But she can't stop trying to fix it.
10+ min |
October 2023
The Atlantic
THE PRIME MINISTER and THE MOONIES
THE BIZARRE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION OF SHINZO ABE
10+ min |
October 2023
The Atlantic
Jenisha From Kentucky
I came to New York sure of one thing-that no one could ever know my past.
10+ min |
October 2023
The Atlantic
NIXON BETWEEN THE LINES
Alone in his study, ballpoint pen in hand, the president revealed himself in the margins of his books.
10+ min |
October 2023
The Atlantic
TRUMP ON TRIAL
The drama now unfolding will make for perhaps the most surreal presidential-election cycle in American history. How will it end?
10 min |
October 2023
The Atlantic
A Sunnier Edvard Munch
A new exhibition offers a counterpoint to The Scream.
6 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
The Man Who Transformed American Theater
How August Wilson became one of the country's most influential playwrights
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
Owls Aren't That Smart
But they have uncanny powers.
9 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
Lost Histories of Coexistence
James McBride's new novel tells a story of solidarity between Black and Jewish communities.
7 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
Inside the Revolution at OpenAI
Sam Altman doesn't know where artificial intelligence will lead humanity. But he's taking us there anyway.
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.
The Ones We Sent Away
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
THE RISE OF BRONZE AGE PERVERT
HOW A FASCIST BODYBUILDER CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE FAR RIGHT
10+ min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
KILLER APPS
Is social media making America's murder surge worse?
9 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
THE RESILIENCE GAP
In 2008, when I was a writer for the blog Feministe, commenters began requesting warnings at the top of posts discussing distressing topics, most commonly sexual assault.
9 min |
September 2023
The Atlantic
A Star Reporter's Break With Reality
Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even farright media disavow. What happened?
10+ min |
July - August 2023
The Atlantic
Who Was Cleopatra's Daughter?
The perils of searching for feminist heroes in antiquity
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Burned
How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a solar-energy breakthrough swindled Wall Street investors, Warren Buffett, and the U.S. Treasury out of $1 billion
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Inside the desperate effort to rescue America's pastime from irrelevance
Where in the name of human rain delays is Juan Soto? The stud outfielder is late.
10+ min |
July - August 2023
The Atlantic
CONFESSIONS of a Luxury-Wedding PLANNER - Lies, panic, and ponies
Sunday mornings, for wedding planners, are reserved for prayer. Not because it's a particularly pious profession but because that's the day when clients who were married on Saturday figure out if they're happy or not.
10+ min |
July - August 2023
The Atlantic
The Immortal Mel Brooks
The 2,000-year-old man turns 97 this summer. I talked with him about fighting in World War II, his life in comedy, and the secret to happiness.
10+ min |
July - August 2023
The Atlantic
IN DEFENSE OF HUMANITY
We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.
9 min |
July - August 2023
The Atlantic
The Canadian Way of Death
The nation legalized assisted suicide-and exposed the limits of liberalism
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Writing in the Ruins
The German writer Jenny Erpenbeck cuts through dogma, fractures time, and preserves rubble
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Surrender to Steely Dan
How the insufferably perfectionist duo captured the hearts of a new generation of listeners
10 min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Call of the Wild
The enduring appeal of watching human beings attempt to master the Alaskan backcountry
5 min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
Night at the Vatican
After the tourists go home, a museum's collection tells its own story
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE
The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backward-sperhaps even out of Crimea for good
10+ min |
June 2023
The Atlantic
American Madness
Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.
10+ min |
May 2023
The Atlantic
The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.
10+ min |