Science
The Atlantic
Where Han Kang's Nightmares Come From
In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her countrys bloody past.
9 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
TROPHY HUNTERS
A GROUP OF CHILDHOOD FRIENDS PULLED OFF A STRING OF THE MOST AUDACIOUS SPORTS-MEMORABILIA HEISTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THEN THEY DID SOMETHING REALLY CRAZY.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
THE NEW RASPUTINS
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
9 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
ARMY OF GOD
AMERICAN CHRISTIANS ARE EMBRACING A CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT KNOWN AS THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION, WHICH SEEKS TO DESTROY THE SECULAR STATE. Now THEIR WAR BEGINS.
10+ min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
WHAT NOT TO WEAR
The false promise of seasonal-color analysis
7 min |
February 2025
The Atlantic
JOE ROGAN IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA NOW
What happens when the outsiders seize the microphone?
8 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
MARAUDING NATION
In Trumps second term, the U.S. could become a global bully.
7 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
BOLEY RIDES AGAIN
America’s oldest Black rodeo is back.
10 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
THE GENDER WAR IS HERE
What women learned in 2024
7 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
THE END OF DEMOCRATIC DELUSIONS
The Trump Reaction and what comes next
9 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
The Longevity Revolution
We need to radically rethink what it means to be old.
10 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
Bob Dylan's Carnival Act
His identity was a performance. His writing was sleight of hand. He bamboozled his own audience.
5 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
I'm a Pizza Sicko
My quest to make the perfect pie
7 min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
What Happens When You Lose Your Country?
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup destroyed Hawai'i's sovereign government. Some Hawaiians want their nation back.
10+ min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research-and the credibility of an entire field.
10+ min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
10+ min |
January 2025
The Atlantic
The Dark Origins of Impressionism
How the violence and deprivation of war inspired light-filled masterpieces
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
The Magic Mountain Saved My Life
When I was young and adrift, Thomas Manns novel gave me a sense of purpose. Today, its vision is startlingly relevant.
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
The Weirdest Hit in History
How Handel's Messiah became Western music's first classic
8 min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
Culture Critics
Nick Cave Wants to Be Good \"I was just a nasty little guy.\"
9 min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
ONE FOR THE ROAD
What I ate growing up with the Grateful Dead
8 min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
Teaching Lucy
She was a superstar of American education. Then she was blamed for the country's literacy crisis. Can Lucy Calkins reclaim her good name?
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
A BOXER ON DEATH ROW
Iwao Hakamada spent an unprecedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
HOW THE IVY LEAGUE BROKE AMERICA
THE MERITOCRACY ISN'T WORKING. WE NEED SOMETHING NEW.
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
Against Type
How Jimmy O Yang became a main character
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
DISPATCHES
HOW TO BUILD A PALESTINIAN STATE There's still a way.
10+ min |
December 2024
The Atlantic
Catching the Carjackers - On the road with an elite police unit as it combats a crime wave
On August 7, 2022, Shantise Summers arrived home from a night out with friends around 2:40 a.m. As she walked from her car toward her apartment in Oxon Hill, a Maryland neighborhood just southeast of Washington, D.C., she heard footsteps behind her. She turned and saw two men in ski masks. One put a gun to her face; she could feel the metal pressing against her chin. He demanded her phone, wallet, keys, and Apple Watch. She quickly handed them over, and they drove off in her 2019 Honda Accord.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
The Most Remote Place in the World - Point Nemo is Earth's official "middle of nowhere." A lot seems to be going on there.
It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would that place be? The answer, proposed only a few decades ago, is a location in the South Pacific with the coordinates 48 52.5291ᤩS 123 23.5116ᤩW: the “oceanic point of inaccessibility,” to use the formal name. It doesn’t get many visitors. But one morning last year, I met several people who had just come from there.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
You Are Going to Die - Oliver Burkeman has become an unlikely self-help guru by reminding everyone of their mortality.
"The average human lifespan," Oliver Burkeman begins his 2021 megabest seller, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, "is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short." In that relatively brief period, he does not want you to maximize your output at work or optimize your leisure activities for supreme enjoyment. He does not want you to wake up at 5 a.m. or block out your schedule in a strictly labeled timeline.
10+ min |
November 2024
The Atlantic
Washington's Nightmare - Donald Trump is the tyrant the first president feared.
Last November, during a symposium at Mount Vernon on democracy, John Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served as Donald Trump's second chief of staff, spoke about George Washington's historic accomplishments— his leadership and victory in the Revolutionary War, his vision of what an American president should be. And then Kelly offered a simple, three-word summary of Washington's most important contribution to the nation he liberated.
10+ min |