Science

The Atlantic
Her?
No one seems to think Kamala Harris is ready to be president. Here's what they're missing.
10+ min |
November 2023

The Atlantic
We Are Not at War.We Are at Work.
RUNNING THE WASHINGTON POST IN DONALD TRUMP'S D.C.
10+ min |
November 2023

The Atlantic
THE PATRIOT
What does a general do when the commander in chief undermines the Constitution?
10+ min |
November 2023

The Atlantic
BLACK SUCCESS, WHITE BACKLASH
Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color-and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement
10+ min |
November 2023

The Atlantic
Zadie Smith Has Doubts About Fiction
In her ambitious new novel, she asks whether we expect too much of the genre.
10+ min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
The Man Who Became Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson's life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name, and for his own achievements.
10+ min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
Life After "I Do"
George Eliot's subversive vision of marriage
10 min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
The Other Naomi
A left-wing author finds herself constantly confused with a right-wing conspiracist.
8 min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
I, Sly
Sly Stone tells his story.
5 min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
THE FINAL DAYS
JOE BIDEN WAS DETERMINED TO GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN-NO MATTER THE COST
10+ min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
The Joy and the Funk and the Mire
The critic dream hampton thinks hip-hop is broken. But she can't stop trying to fix it.
10+ min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
THE PRIME MINISTER and THE MOONIES
THE BIZARRE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION OF SHINZO ABE
10+ min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
Jenisha From Kentucky
I came to New York sure of one thing-that no one could ever know my past.
10+ min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
NIXON BETWEEN THE LINES
Alone in his study, ballpoint pen in hand, the president revealed himself in the margins of his books.
10+ min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
TRUMP ON TRIAL
The drama now unfolding will make for perhaps the most surreal presidential-election cycle in American history. How will it end?
10 min |
October 2023

The Atlantic
A Sunnier Edvard Munch
A new exhibition offers a counterpoint to The Scream.
6 min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
The Man Who Transformed American Theater
How August Wilson became one of the country's most influential playwrights
10+ min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
Owls Aren't That Smart
But they have uncanny powers.
9 min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
Lost Histories of Coexistence
James McBride's new novel tells a story of solidarity between Black and Jewish communities.
7 min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
10+ min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
Inside the Revolution at OpenAI
Sam Altman doesn't know where artificial intelligence will lead humanity. But he's taking us there anyway.
10+ min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.
The Ones We Sent Away
10+ min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
THE RISE OF BRONZE AGE PERVERT
HOW A FASCIST BODYBUILDER CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE FAR RIGHT
10+ min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
KILLER APPS
Is social media making America's murder surge worse?
9 min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
THE RESILIENCE GAP
In 2008, when I was a writer for the blog Feministe, commenters began requesting warnings at the top of posts discussing distressing topics, most commonly sexual assault.
9 min |
September 2023

The Atlantic
A Star Reporter's Break With Reality
Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even farright media disavow. What happened?
10+ min |
July - August 2023

The Atlantic
Who Was Cleopatra's Daughter?
The perils of searching for feminist heroes in antiquity
10+ min |
June 2023

The Atlantic
Burned
How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a solar-energy breakthrough swindled Wall Street investors, Warren Buffett, and the U.S. Treasury out of $1 billion
10+ min |
June 2023

The Atlantic
Inside the desperate effort to rescue America's pastime from irrelevance
Where in the name of human rain delays is Juan Soto? The stud outfielder is late.
10+ min |
July - August 2023

The Atlantic
CONFESSIONS of a Luxury-Wedding PLANNER - Lies, panic, and ponies
Sunday mornings, for wedding planners, are reserved for prayer. Not because it's a particularly pious profession but because that's the day when clients who were married on Saturday figure out if they're happy or not.
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