Science
The Atlantic
Who Needs Intimacy?
Influential novelists are imagining what women's lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.
10 min |
May 2025
The Atlantic
Was Integration the Wrong Goal?
Why some mainstream Black intellectuals are giving up on Brown v. Board of Education
10 min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
The Girls of Summer
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZACK WITTMAN 23 The Girls of Summer WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AMERICA'S PASTIME. IT HAS NEVER LOVED THEM BACK.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
TURTLEBOY WILL NOT BE STOPPED
A profane blogger believes an innocent woman is being framed for murder. He'll do anything to prove he's right—and terrorize anyone who says he's wrong.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
THE FEAR ECONOMY
How Trump is exploiting American capitalism for personal power
9 min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
The Internet Can Still Be Good
Reddit, of all places, suggests how.
7 min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
On Track
The time I spent working on the railroad changed the course of my life.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
The Last Great Yiddish Novel
Chaim Grade's Sons and Daughters rescues a destroyed world.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
THE ERA OF MIGHT MAKES RIGHT
In the MAGA vision of the national interest, America will be more like Russia, China, and Iran.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
The Cranky Visionary
Albert Barnes believed in the liberating power of art—but you had to look at it his way.
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
KOSHER SALT IS ACTUALLY JUST BIG SALT
How did it become so popular?
5 min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
Growing Up Murdoch
Inside the family fight that will determine the future of conservative media
10+ min |
April 2025
The Atlantic
When Robert Frost Was Bad
Before he became America's most famous poet, he wrote some real howlers.
10 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
ALL THE KING'S CENSORS
When bureaucrats ruled over British theater
10 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
CAPITULATION IS CONTAGIOUS
By killing a cartoon that lampooned its owner, The Washington Post set a dangerous precedent.
5 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
The Experimentalist
Ali Smith's novels scramble plotlines, upend characters, and flout chronologywhile telling propulsively readable stories.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
The Moron Factory
April 20: Sometimes feel life stinks, everything bad/getting worse, everyone doomed.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
The Warrior's Anti-War Novel
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque invented modern war writing.
8 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
"I Am Still Mad to Write"
How a tragic accident helped Hanif Kureishi find his rebellious voice again
10 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
BEHOLD MY SUIT!
A LIFETIME OF FASHION MISERY COMES TO AN END.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
WHY THE COVID DENIERS WON
Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath
10 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
CAN EUROPE STOP ELON MUSK?
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
9 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Bridget Jones Never Gets Old
How the beloved British diarist outlasted her critics
5 min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Stuck In Place
Why Americans stopped moving houses-and why that's a very big problem
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Who's Your Mommy?
I knew that becoming a parent would change me. I just didn't know how.
10+ min |
March 2025
The Atlantic
Apocalypse, Constantly
Humans love to imagine their own demise.
9 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
A Palestinian American Sex and the City
Betty Shamieh's debut novel is a rebellious rom-com.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
Modi's Failure
Why India is losing faith in its strongman leader
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It's changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
The Wild Charity of Saint Francis
The guide we need, now that kindness is countercultural
5 min |