Science
The Atlantic
The Story of Jack and Neal
The friendship that made On the Road—and the Beat Generation possible
6 min |
April 2022
The Atlantic
My Personality Transplant
How to find happiness, how I made myself less unpleasant
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
The Madness of the Method
Does acting need to be grueling to be good?
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
The older we get, the more we need our friends-and the harder it is to keep them.
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
Cromer
In New Malden, they owned a corner shop together. It was the place where you could get the gossip magazines and newspapers from Seoul.
10+ min |
April 2022
The Atlantic
SCHOOL SHOULDN'T BE A BATTLEFIELD
There's a better way to educate our kids.
10 min |
April 2022
The Atlantic
How Ireland Blundered Into the Modern World
The same forces that stalled a national transformation ended up fueling it.
10+ min |
April 2022
The Atlantic
The Smutty Mystic
What everyone gets wrong about Sheila Heti’s fiction
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
There's No Such Thing as “the Latino Vote”
Why can't America see that?
10 min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
The Satisfaction Trap
No matter what we achieve or attain, our biology always leaves us wanting more. But there's a way out.
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
Women of a Certain Age
Why stars in their 40s are at last getting interesting roles
6 min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
Close to Home
"Early on in the pandemic, the Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen captured an image of his son tilting his head toward the evening sky in the German countryside, where the family lives."
1 min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
Loving the Bald Eagle to Death
Americans have had a strange way of showing their admiration for this regal creature.
10+ min |
March 2022
The Atlantic
John Milton's Hell
Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, the poet was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
6 min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
The Small Lie
To support the Republican myth that our elections are rife with fraud, someone needs to take the fall.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
The Children Are in Danger!
Across America, well-meaning citizens are raising money and awareness about a child-sex-trafficking epidemic that doesn’t exist.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
Hanya Yanagihara's Haunted America
Her new novel experiments with alternative versions of history, upending personal and national destinies.
10 min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
He Walked the Line
Johnny Cash was beloved by Americans who could agree on little else. Was he too eager to please?
10+ min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
The Freshman
After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the GOP away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own naïveté.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
Imagine the Worst
How to head off the next insurrection
10 min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
January 6 Was Practice
Donald Trump is better positioned to subvert an election now than he was in 2020.
10+ min |
January - February 2022
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 |