Technology
The Atlantic
How Self-Reliant Was Emerson?
Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, emerged from an exceptionally tight-knit community.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Singularity is Here
Artificially intelligent advertising technology is poisoning our societies.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Martial Art I Can't Live Without
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat.
8 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
Several People Are Typing
Slack made it easier to crack jokes and easier to stir up trouble. Employees love it. Bosses don’t.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Unhappy Returns
What really happens to all the pants that don’t fit
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Snowbirds
Photographs by Naomi Harris
2 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
The Antiquities Cop
Matthew Bogdanos is on a mission to prosecute the wealthy dealers and collectors who traffic in the looted relics of ancient civilizations.
10+ min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
Shape-Shifting Animals on an Inhospitable Planet
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, butterflies’ wings are growing stronger.
10 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
In Defense of the Insufferable Music Fan
What we lose when we “like everything”
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
It Didn't Have to Be This Way
A brilliant account of 30,000 years of change upends the bedrock assumptions about human history.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
The Men Who Are Killing American's Newspapers
Inside Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms and damaging democracy
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
The Engineers' Daughter
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. A freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Facebookland
The social giant isn’t just acting like an authoritarian power. It is one.
10 min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
W. G. Sebald, Usurper of Lives.
Germany’s renowned and morally scrupulous novelist ransacked the stories of Jewish lives for his fictions. Does it matter?
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
How I Fell for Formula 1
Netflix got Americans like me to finally care about auto racing. The NFL might want to take notes.
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Unwritten Rules of Black TV
For decades, Black writers and producers have had to tell stories that fit what white executives deemed “authentic.” Can a new generation finally change that?
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard
At last he put aside the pyrotechnics and went all in on his great theme: the American family.
10 min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Where Is Our Paradise of Guilt-Free Sex?
Half a century after the sexual revolution, we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
A new game builds on the addictive appeal of Sid Meier’s Civilization.
8 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Colson Whitehead Subverts the Crime Novel
In a country born of theft, everyone is an accomplice.
10 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Xanax of Stand-Up
Nate Bargatze’s humor is slow, inoffensive, even soothing. And he’s one of the hottest acts in comedy.
9 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Emmett Till – The Barn
In the Mississippi Delta, an unmarked building sits 100 yards from a gravel road. Sixty-six years ago, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up. Four white men rode in the cab. A 14-year-old child was in the back. His name was Emmett Till.
10+ min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
The Would-Be Savior of Patagonia
Are environmental crusaders like Douglas Tompkins good for the planet?
10 min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
This Is The End Of Affirmative Action
We have to face the reality that our education system is, and always has been, separate and unequal.
9 min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
White Progressives in Pursuit of Racial Virtue
What two new books reveal about the moral limits of anti-racist self-help
10+ min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP IS A LIE
How to convince Americans that firearms won’t make them safer
10 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Quiet Moments
In 2009 and 2010, while on assignment in Afghanistan’s Helmand, Kunar, and Wardak provinces, the photographer Adam Ferguson took a break from his journalistic work documenting the war to create portraits of American service members.
2 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
PLAN Z FOR IMMIGRATION
“A moral failing and a national shame.”
6 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success.
10+ min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The 9/11 Century
Twenty years on, how should we think about the worst terrorist attack in American history?
9 min |