Science
The Atlantic
Estebanico's America
The story of Africans on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Fiction – Bump
To those who accuse me of immoderate desire, I say look at the oil executives. Look at the Gold Rush. Look at all the women who want a ring and romance and lifelong commitment, and then look again at me.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Stacey Abrams Writes A Thriller
How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to die
10 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
PULLING COUNT
MY SIX MONTHS ON THE LINE IN A DODGE CITY MEATPACKING PLANT
10+ min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
Infomercial for America
The timeless appeal of Top Gun
7 min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
The Power of Refusal
New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore women’s struggle to withdraw and create.
9 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Whose Side Is Kavanaugh On?
Conservatives hope to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Elvis Reenters The Building
In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival.
9 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Alison Bechdel's Spiritual Sprint
In her new memoir, the cartoonist runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Solo exes her way toward transcendence.
6 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Purgatory At Sea
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the mediterranean.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
How To End Extreme Child Poverty
Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Burn All The Leggings
What do you wear to the reopening of society?
9 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse
10 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Diplomat Who Disappeared
In 1974, John Patterson, an american diplomat on his first assignment abroad, was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000 and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
What Richard Wright Knew
A previously unpublished novel reveals his bleak prescience about race in America.
8 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
THE WAR ON NOSTALGIA
The myth of the Lost Cause is passed down like an heirloom. What would it take for the truth to break through?
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Boutique In Your Bedroom
As stores disappear, shopping in your own closet becomes the ultimate luxury.
9 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Human Side of Fracking
Living with the allure and danger of a lucrative, dirty industry
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Power of the First Lady
How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
How Will We Remember The Pandemic?
The science of how our memories form— and how they shape our future
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
‘It's Always Been About Exclusion'
America is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
Hormone Monsters
Television turns to magicaal realism to explore the trials of early adolescence.
8 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
Can Justice Be Served On Zoom?
COVID-19 has transformed America’s courts.
9 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot
Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Dispatches: America Without God
As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?
10 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Looking Up
When you are an ant, the stakes are always high. There are those who would eat you—birds, snakes, bigger bugs—and those who could trample you and your environment in a single sneakered step. These enormous beings may not mean you any harm, but it is impact, not intention, that matters most.
1 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful
The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Private Schools Are Indefensible
The Gulf between how rich kids and poor kids are educated in America is obscene.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Our Sad Souvenirs of The Pandemic
Americans can’t go anywhere, but we’re still buying the T-shirt.
9 min |