Science
The Atlantic
Beware The Digital Cure
Tech companies are helping the government respond to the pandemic. What’s in it for them?
10 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Culture & Critics
So Sad, Can’t Stop Laughing
6 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The 2016 Election Was Just a Dry Run
Russia’s goal was never merely to elect Donald Trump. It was to bring down American democracy. Is Vladimir Putin poised to complete the mission he began four years ago?
10+ min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The Case of the Phantom Papyrus
A renowned Oxford scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment whose text closely matched modern Bibles. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
10+ min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
Operation Firstfruits
Where is the line between journalism and espionage? And what happens when your own government thinks you've crossed it?
10+ min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
Why Birds Do What They Do
The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems.
10 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The Last Night Out
The virus pulled back the curtain on our fraught relationships.
8 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The Special Child
In his unsettling trilogy about a possibly divine boy, J. M. Coetzee asks how we recognize the truth when it enters the world.
10 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
What Takes Our Breath Away
An undertaker reflects on the one thing death can’t steal: our stories.
7 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
A Motherhood Reset
How quarantining showed me what my children had been missing—and what I had, too
9 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
Robert Stone's Dark Dream of America
His novelistic ambition to define the national condition is more relevant than ever.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
The Sculptor Who Made Art Move
How Alexander Calder gave objects a life of their own
10 min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
The Shark and The Shrimpers
After the BP oil spill, a well-known lawyer helped land a $2 billion settlement for gulf coast seafood-industry workers, including 42,000 vietnamese fishermen. Only one problem: they did'nt exist.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
The Secret of Scooby-Doo's Enduring Appeal
Why on earth has the formulaic series, which debuted half a century ago, outlasted just about everything else on television?
9 min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
Childhood in an anxious age and the crisis of modern parenting
Imagine for a moment that the future is going to be even more stressful than the present. Maybe we don’t need to imagine this. You probably believe it. According to a survey from the Pew Research Center last year, 60 percent of American adults think that three decades from now, the U.S. will be less powerful than it is today. Almost two-thirds say it will be even more divided politically. Fifty-nine percent think the environment will be degraded. Nearly three-quarters say that the gap between the haves and have-nots will be wider. A plurality expect the average family’s standard of living to have declined. Most of us, presumably, have recently become acutely aware of the danger of global plagues.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
“At 14, I Could've Pointed Out everybody Who Would Be Dead"
Nikki King grew up surrounded by the opioid epidemic. Now she's leading a novel and promising program to help people in remote areas.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
What China Wants
Chinese leaders’ combination of superiority and insecurity is growing more dangerous. The U.S. needs a new strategy to reflect that
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
Being Friends With Philip Roth
During his last two decades, we spent thousands of hours in each other’s company. Ours was a conversation neither of us could have done without.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
THE BRAINIEST HITTER
Can Joey Votto outsmart age?
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
EXILE IN THE AGE OF MODI
How Hindu nationalism has trampled the founding idea of my country
10 min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
The Reigning Master of Family Drama
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, his first set outside of Japan, showcases the great director’s signature theme.
8 min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
How to destroy a government
The president is winning his war on american institutions
10+ mins |
April 2020
The Atlantic
How to tackle a Giraffe
The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think. Saving it begins with a daunting act of physical courage.
10+ min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
The Supreme Court's Enduring Bias
Over the past half-century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law.
9 min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Opposition to water fluoridation, while often vocal, has been largely a fringe crusade. But solid evidence for fluoridation’s value is surprisingly hard to find.
10+ min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
Reiki Can't Possibly Work. So Why Does It?
The 20th-century Japanese healing therapy is now available in many hospitals. What its ascendance says about shifts in how American patients and doctors think about health care.
10+ min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
WHAT HAPPENED TO JAKE MILLISON?
WHEN A YOUNG RANCHER WENT MISSING, HIS FAMILY SAID HE’D SKIPPED TOWN. BUT HIS FRIENDS KNEW HIM BETTER THAN THAT, AND THEY REFUSED TO LET HIM SIMPLY DISAPPEAR.
10+ min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
IT'S ALL SO… PREMIOCRE
A guide to the new age of Potemkin luxury
7 min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
The World's Favorite Drug
The dark history of how coffee took over
10 min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
THE PERKS OF BEING A WEIRDO
How not fitting in can lead to creative thinking
7 min |