Animals-and-Pets
The Atlantic
Hilary Mantel Takes Thomas Cromwell Down
As the author’s remarkable trilogy ends, her epic hero’s self-mastery is newly in doubt.
10+ min |
April 2020
The Atlantic
Can You Still Trust Nate Silver?
The leader of the data revolution believes he got 2016 right—and the rest of the media is in danger of getting 2020 wrong.
9 min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
Abraham Lincoln's Radical Moderation
What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t
9 min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
The NUCLEAR FAMILY Was a MISTAKE
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half-century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
10+ min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
The New Rules of Music Snobbery
Hulu’s High Fidelity reboot captures the end of elitist condescension and the rise of fervent eclecticism.
5 min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
The Art of Second Chances
In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms.
10 min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
The Abortion Doctor and His Accuser
When a reproductive- rights activist accused one of the most respected physicians in the movement of sexually assaulting her, everyone quickly took sides. The divide exposed differences among women that are typically expressed only in private.
10+ min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
THE 2020 DISINFORMATION WAR
DEEPFAKES, ANONYMOUS TEXT MESSAGES, POTEMKIN LOCAL-NEWS SITES, AND OPPOSITION RESEARCH ON REPORTERS—A FIELD GUIDE TO THIS YEAR’S ELECTION AND WHAT IT COULD DO TO THE COUNTRY
10+ min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
IN PRAISE OF THE HERD MENTALITY
How the human instinct to conform could help us meet the challenge of the climate crisis
9 min |
March 2020
The Atlantic
How Flamenco Went Pop
The Spanish star Rosalía has made the harrowing music of Andalusia into a global phenomenon.
6 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
The Miseducation Of The American Boy
Why boys crack up at rape "jokes", think having a girlfriend is "gay", and still can't cry –and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity
10+ min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
ODE
From the outside it looks steady.
2 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
Retreat, Christian, Soldiers
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary American life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas, one centered on faith and family. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation?
10+ min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
The Patron Saint of Complicated Women
Bombshell is Charlize Theron’s latest effort to subvert the typical Hollywood role.
10 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
The View From Inside the Bubble
Drawn into the tech world, a 20-something watches herself get seduced by a myopic mission.
9 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
Before Zuckerberg, Gutenberg
Anyone who thinks we’ve now grasped what the internet has in store for us should revisit what the printing press unleashed.
8 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
The Woman Who Made Modern Journalism
Ida Tarbell helped pioneer reportorial methods and investigative ambitions that are as potent today as ever.
10 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
The Myth Of Free Shipping
How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we’re such suckers for their ploys
7 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
Cool It, Krugman
The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist
10 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
20,000 Feet Under The Sea
The bottom of the ocean is as alien as Mars: a dark, mysterious place with purple octopuses, giant tube worms, and who knows what else. Mining companies are preparing to extract minerals that could wean the Earth from fossil fuels, but scientists have never explored many of the habitats they might destroy. The race between miners and scientists may determine the fate of the oceans, and the planet.
10+ min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
What Art Can Do
The power of stories that are unshakably true
6 min |
December 2019
The Atlantic
Against Reconciliation
The gravest danger to American Democracy isn't an excess of vitriol –It's the false promise of civility.
10+ min |
December 2019
The Atlantic
Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going Haywire
Social media rapidly changed how we communicate, in ways that destabilize democracy. What can we do about that?
10+ min |
December 2019
The Atlantic
How America Ends
A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?
10+ min |
December 2019
The Atlantic
Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Applying the techniques of couples counseling to bring reds and blues back together again
10+ min |
December 2019
The Atlantic
Jeff Bezos's Master Plan
What he wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
10+ min |
November 2019
The Atlantic
Books – Boy, Uninterrupted
Ben Lerner, portraitist of talkative men, explores the roots of white male rage.
10 min |
October 2019
The Atlantic
'Get a Weapon'
When a veteran military man gave me that advice before I left to join U.S. forces in Baghdad, I thought he meant that I needed a way to protect myself from the enemy.
10+ min |
October 2019
The Atlantic
Gen X May Never Produce A President!
Gen X may never produce a president. That’s bad news for Americans of all ages.
10 min |
October 2019
The Atlantic
Why James Mattis Quit?
“I Had No Choice But To Leave,” General James Mattis says of his decision to resign as President Trump’s Secretary of Defense.
10+ min |