Technology
The Atlantic
What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?
What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?
2 min |
July/August 2017
The Atlantic
Can A Black Woman Win The Presidency Today?
The senator from California has always been cautious, but since announcing her candidacy she’s grown bolder. Can a black woman win the presidency today—and what compromises must she make to do so?
10+ min |
May 2019
The Atlantic
How To Die
As a psychotherapist, Irvin Yalom has helped others grapple with their mortality. Now he is preparing for his own end.
9 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
License-Plate Marriages
YOU CAN marry for love, you can marry for money, or, in Beijing, you can marry for a license plate.
2 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
The Big Question
Q: What Crime Most Changed The Course Of History?
2 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
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A YELLOW TAXI CIRCLES the airport; mist over LaGuardia; rumor of improvised explosive device; a bald Nigerian hack listening to incensed propagandists on WOR, his cab merging with the vortex; and behind the Plexiglas, an entrepreneurial American capitalist half his age, iPhone perpetually to her per fect pink ear, hair dark as a tiger’s stripe.
8 min |
October 2016
The Atlantic
How the New Preschool Is Crushing Kids
Today’s young children are working more, but learning less.
10 min |
January 2016
The Atlantic
The Future of Pets
Of micropigs and tweeting dogs.
6 min |
January 2016
The Atlantic
Marc Maron’s Brilliant Mistakes
The star podcaster’s success is rooted in his earlier failure and despair.
6 min |
January 2016
The Atlantic
The Great Republican Revolt
The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war. Can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?
10+ min |
January 2016
The Atlantic
A Surging Group of American Teens Are Excelling At Advanced Math. Why?
What’s behind the surge in American teens who are highly fluent in high-order math.
10+ min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
Why Attacking ISIS Won’t Make Americans Safer
Presidential candidates claim that attacking ISIS will make Americans safer. The opposite is true.
7 min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
Can This Man Save U.S. Soccer?
An expert teacher’s efforts to rescue the sport from mediocrity, by starting with its coaches.
9 min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
How America Is Putting Itself Back Together
Most Americans believe the country is going to hell. They’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal and about how the Second Gilded Age might end.
10+ min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
Inside a Plot to Overthrow the President of the Gambia
What happened when 11 audacious exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia.
10+ min |
March 2016
The Atlantic
TV's Fake Language Master
How one linguist creates obsessively detailed and fully functional languages for Game of Thrones and other shows.
9 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Future Will Be Quiet
Why you might not hear sirens, airplanes, or leaf blowers anymore.
6 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
A Midlife Career Shift Could Help You Live Longer
A midlife career shift can be good for cognition, well-being, and even longevity.
10 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Art of Marketing Marijuana
How to make pot seem as all-American as an ice-cold beer.
7 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Resurrections of David Bowie
What made him one of rock’s most potent lyricists.
7 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Truth About Abolition
The movement gets the big, bold history it deserves.
9 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
A Guide to Escaping the Algorithms and Your Own Musical Ruts
A guide to escaping the algorithms and your own musical ruts.
9 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Return of the Black Panther!
A behind-the-scenes look at the revival of Marvel’s first black superhero series, from its fantastical and historical inspirations to early sketches - plus an exclusive preview of the first issue.
5 min |
April 2016
The Atlantic
The Obama Doctrine, in the President's Own Words
The president explains his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
10+ mins |
April 2016
The Atlantic
Payday Lending: Will Anything Better Replace It?
Payday lending is a scam, a scourge, an abomination and as the backlash against it grows, it is slowly being regulated out of existence. Will anything better replace it?
10+ min |
May 2016
The Atlantic
How Warren Buffett's Son Would Feed the World
Howard G. Buffett has spent most of his life as a farmer, with little financial support from his father until recently. Now he runs a multibillion-dollar foundation dedicated to ending world hunger.
10+ min |
May 2016
The Atlantic
How Islam Created Europe
In late antiquity, Islam split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent.
4 min |
May 2016
The Atlantic
How Americans Lost Faith In The Presidency
The Vietnam War opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.
8 min |
October 2017
The Atlantic
The Ideas Of The Year 2015
A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are informing our national conversation and shaping our lives.
10+ min |
July - August 2015
The Atlantic
How The New Political Correctness Is Ruining Education
Todays college students can't seem to take a joke.
10+ min |