Animals-and-Pets
The Atlantic
After the Miracle
Cystic fibrosis once guaranteed an early deathbut a medical breakthrough has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?
10+ min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
WILLIAM WHITWORTH 1937-2024
WILLIAM WHITWORTH, the editor of The Atlantic from 1980 to 1999, had a soft voice and an Arkansas accent that decades of living in New York and New England never much eroded.
6 min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Again
Her new memoir doubles as a modern-day horror story.
9 min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
Is Theo Von the Next Joe Rogan?
Or is he something else entirely?
5 min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
Orwell's Escape
Why the author repaired to the remote Isle of Jura to write his masterpiece, 1984
10+ min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
What's So Bad About Asking Where Humans Came From?
Human origin stories have often been used for nefarious purposes. That doesn't mean they are worthless.
10 min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
Miranda's Last Gift
When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories and Ringo.
10+ min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
CLASH OF THE PATRIARCHS
A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.
10+ min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
THE MAN WHO DIED FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS
Chugging through Pacific waters in February 1942, the USS Crescent City was ferrying construction equipment and Navy personnel to Pearl Harbor, dispatched there to assist in repairing the severely damaged naval base after the Japanese attack.
10+ min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
The Great Serengeti Land Grab
How Gulf princes, wealthy tourists, and conservation groups displacing the Maasai people
10+ min |
May 2024
The Atlantic
Saint Dismas
Carlito held one end of the rope, Omar the other.
10+ min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
Why Do Animals Play?
Scientists want an evolutionary explanation. But maybe the answer is simply: Its fun.
8 min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
The Insider
Is Kara Swisher tearing down tech billionaires—or burnishing their legends?
10 min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
A Bloody Retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’ classic.
9 min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
THE SECRET GOSPEL
A Columbia history professor claimed that he discovered a sacred text with shocking details about the life of Jesus. Was it real?
10+ min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
JODIE FOSTER'S LIFE ON-SCREEN
SINCE CHILDHOOD, SHE'S STRUGGLED WITH ONE QUESTION: HOW MUCH DOES SHE WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW HER?
10+ min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE
ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT THREATENS TO END AN UNPRECEDENTED PERIOD OF SAFETY AND PROSPERITY FOR JEWISH AMERICANS-AND DEMOLISH THE LIBERAL ORDER THEY HELPED ESTABLISH.
10+ min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
The Radio Squirrels of Point Reyes
\"Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.\" With that, in January 1997, the French Coast Guard transmitted its final message in Morse code.
2 min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
THE GRUMPY ECONOMY
Why Americans trust feelings more than facts when it comes to prosperity
9 min |
April 2024
The Atlantic
American Cowardice
Scot Peterson, condemned as the "Coward of Broward," stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Does the blame lie with him, his training or a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings?
10+ min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
Raina Telgemeier Gets It
The wildly successful cartoonist turned the anxious kid into a hero.
6 min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
How Marilynne Robinson Reads Scripture
In her hands, the Book of Genesis becomes a precursor to the novel.
10 min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
The Disorienting Beauty of "Africa & Byzantium"
A landmark exhibition offers a new history of art.
10+ min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
Shelf Life
An incisive satirist of literary Brooklyn takes on the American big-box store.
10 min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
The James Bond Trap
Ian Fleming created the superspy and then couldn't get rid of him.
5 min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
Lost Photographs of Black America
Ernest Cole was born in 1940 to a Black family in the Eersterust township, near Pretoria, South Africa.
2 min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
THE DESPOTS OF SILICON VALLEY
The tech world has its own ascendant political ideology, and it's past time we call it what it is.
10+ min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
The Curious Case of the Contested Basquiats
Twenty-five \"masterpieces,\" an FBI raid, and the maddening, sometimes impossible task of rooting out fakes and forgeries
10+ min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
IN DEFENSE OF WOODROW WILSON
Despised as a racist by today's left and a tyrant by today's right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack.
10+ min |
March 2024
The Atlantic
Meet Me in the Eternal City
Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in?
10+ min |