Science

The Atlantic
The French Are in a Panic Over Le Wokisme
The nation's vehement rejection of identity politics made me recalibrate my own views about woke ideology.
10+ min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
The Third Law of Magic
He spent the night making snow. He packed it tightly into balls of different sizes and stored them in the freezer to keep them stable.
10+ min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
The Masterpiece No One Wanted to Save
Censored and then forgotten, Anatoly Kuznetsov's Babi Yar, about the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, is again painfully relevant.
10 min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
Did George Washington Burn New York?
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
10 min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
The Miraculous Salman Rushdie
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
10+ min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
Struck on One Side
Society tells me to celebrate my disability. What if I don't want to?
10+ min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?
THERE'S NO WAY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT IT.
10+ min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
The Short King's
A maverick group of short sellers uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now they're under investigation themselves. Are they the heroes of Wall Street, or the villains?
10+ min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
PARTY OF TROLLS
Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.
7 min |
March 2023

The Atlantic
Why Read Literary Biography?
What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction
9 min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
10+ min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
White Noise Used to Be Satire
What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.
10+ min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
10+ min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
The End of Us
Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? A disparate group of thinkers says yes-and that we should welcome our demise.
10+ min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
The Prophecy of The Waste Land
One hundred years after the publication of LT. S. Eliot's masterwork, its vision has never been more terrifying.
10+ min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
The Reinvention of the Catholic Church
Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isnt on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.
10 min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG
THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED
10+ min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU
The question is how.
9 min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE
To my grandmother, and perhaps. the country whose resilience she shares
4 min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
THE LOOMING REVOLT OVER HOMELESSNESS
Liberals know how to solve the problem. Why dont they?
10 min |
January - February 2023

The Atlantic
Siegfried & Roy – The Original Tiger Kings
The improbable rise and savage fall of Siegfried & Roy
10+ min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
Good Luck, Mr. Rice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
10+ min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
The Literature of Paranoia
Living in Turkey has made Orhan Pamuk a master of the genre.
10+ min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
The Long History of Russian Brutality
What the fratricidal fury of the country's civil war a century ago can teach us about the invasion of Ukraine
10+ min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
The Trap
What it takes to make it in hip-hops new capital
9 min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
Take a Chance on Them
ABBA makes a triumphant return.
5 min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
LET PUERTO RICO BE FREE
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.
10+ min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
THE SCAPEGOAT
A MUSEUM CURATOR WAS FORCED OUT of HER JOB OVER ALLEGATIONS of RACISM THAT AN INVESTIGATION DEEMED UNFOUNDED. WHAT DID HER DEFENESTRATION ACCOMPLISH?
10+ min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
BAD LOSERS
Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.
9 min |
November 2022

The Atlantic
The Myopia Generation
Why do so many kids need glasses now?
10+ min |