Cherry blossoms in Germany, Fashion Week in Madrid, an island castle in Switzerland, Ramadan prayers in Mecca, a volcanic eruption in the Caribbean, a protest …
Podcast: How Much Should You Really Worry About the Vaccine-Blood-Clot News? : by
Despite weeks of growing vaccinations and good news, headlines about blood clots and a “pause” in deploying the much-anticipated Johnson & Johnson shots have people …
Winners of the 2021 World Press Photo Contest : by Alan Taylor
The winning entries of the annual World Press Photo Contest have just been announced. This year, according to organizers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, …
America Has Pandemic Senioritis : by Amanda Mull
On February 25, I got my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine bright and early, picked up a breakfast burrito on the walk home, and …
The Promise and Warning of Optimized Love : by Sophie Gilbert
On television these days, the near future tends to look like an Apple Store. Everything is gleaming white, a triumph of polymers and marble and …
The Infrastructure Bill Should Look After Our Future, and Our Past : by Clint Smith
(NATIONAL ARCHIVE / NEWSMAKERS / GETTY) In its $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, the Biden administration seeks to expand the public’s conception of what is and …
Some People’s Bodies Aren’t Set Up for Vaccines : by Katherine J. Wu
In early March 2020, Rick Phillips, 63, and his wife, Sheryl Phillips, quietly cloistered themselves in their Indianapolis home. They swore off markets, movie theaters, …
Everybody Needs a Ghostwriter : by Joe Pinsker
In the late-19th-century play Cyrano de Bergerac, the eloquent title character gets a woman to fall deeply in love with another man by ghostwriting letters, …
What Ever Happened to Donald Trump? : by David A. Graham
The president was insistent as he left office: “We’re not going anywhere.” It had been a turbulent end of the presidency—impeachment, appalling pardons, and a …
How to Buy Happiness : by Arthur C. Brooks
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Arthur C. Brooks will discuss the science …
Why Is Voting So Hard in Blue States? : by Russell Berman
If President Joe Biden wants to vote by mail next year in Delaware, he’ll have to provide a valid reason for why he can’t make …
Where British Imperial Rule Lives On : by Timothy McLaughlin
Late last month, the leader of Myanmar’s junta, Min Aung Hlaing, stood on a huge parade field to recount the military’s “immense prestige etched in …
The Forgotten Story of a Diplomat Who Disappeared : by Brendan I. Koerner
Illustrations by Leonardo Santamaria This article was published online on April 15, 2021. The Motel El Encanto in Hermosillo, Mexico, served a lavish breakfast that …
Podcast: The Problem With America’s National Parks : by
Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts The national-park system has been touted as “America’s best idea.” David Treuer, an …
A Film ‘for the 80 Percent’ : by James Fallows
Last night HBO aired its new documentary, Our Towns, which grew out of a long Atlantic series and later a book, as I described here …
A Better Election-Reform Package : by Reihan Salam
The For the People Act is the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s effort to remake American democracy. The legislation has galvanized a large and well-funded …
End the J&J Pause : by Graeme Wood
I am one of the nearly 7 million Americans with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine percolating through my tissue at this very moment. It feels …
The mRNA Vaccines Are Looking Better and Better : by Sarah Zhang
A year ago, when the United States decided to go big on vaccines, it bet on nearly every horse, investing in a spectrum of technologies. …
Hormone Monsters : by Megan Garber
Illustration by Oliver Munday; Christine Schneider / Brigitte Sporrer / Getty This article was published online on April 14, 2021. Embarrassment makes for rich literature, …
Why Care Work Is Infrastructure : by Moira Donegan
Since the Biden administration released its infrastructure proposal, a semantic debate has arisen around a specific provision: the $400 billion in spending for at-home care …
America Never Knew Why It Was in Afghanistan : by Wesley Morgan
The soldiers living in the concrete maze of Combat Outpost (COP) Michigan treated the Taliban fire that poured in from the mountains as though it …
Vaccine Hesitancy Could Create COVID Islands : by Elaine Godfrey
Americans will soon begin to fall back into the rhythms of pre-pandemic life—attending sunny summer weddings, squishing into booths at chain restaurants, laughing together at …
Welcome to the New Progressive Era : by Anand Giridharadas
Washington in the first days of the Biden administration is a place for double takes: A president associated with the politics of austerity is spending …
Want to Be Ant Royalty? Prepare to Lose Part of Your Brain. : by Katherine J. Wu
For most ant species, nothing spells apocalypse quite like the death of a queen. A colony stripped of its monarch, the group’s only fertile female …
It’s Not Over for the J&J Vaccine : by Katherine J. Wu
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has entered regulatory purgatory. This morning, the CDC and FDA jointly recommended, “out of an abundance of caution,” a nationwide …
The Weekly Planet: The 1 Thing to Understand About Biden’s Infrastructure Plan : by Robinson Meyer
Every week, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. …
Taylor Swift Has No Regrets : by Spencer Kornhaber
At 18, Taylor Swift had some regrets. Across her smash second album, Fearless, Swift sang about moments she wanted to relive and, in some cases, …
Biden’s Second Chance : by George Packer
If the purpose of the Afghan War was to prevent terrorists from using Afghanistan to stage attacks on the United States, America could have declared …
The Afghan War Will Continue : by Eliot A. Cohen
In important aspects of foreign and national-security policy, the Biden administration is really the Trump administration but with civilized manners. In no respect is that …
Protecting Crops Against a Spring Frost : by Alan Taylor
Unseasonably cold temperatures across parts of Western Europe have threatened vineyards and groves of fruit trees, as frost damages delicate new buds. Days of record-low …
The Alt-Right Has Lost Control of Redpill : by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Have you fallen for a famous great ape, the most lovable star of something called the “MonsterVerse”? You’re Kong-pilled. Have you been convinced by a …
The GOP’s War on Trans Kids : by Adam Serwer
Ken Mehlman wanted to apologize. Speaking with The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder in 2010, the former Republican National Committee chair came out as gay, and acknowledged …
Republicans Are Making Four Key Mistakes : by David Frum
It’s not only Georgia. In every state where Republicans control a chamber of the legislature, bills to restrict voting are advancing fast. Arizona and Texas …
Why the Our Towns Documentary Is Timely : by James Fallows
This evening—April 13, at 9 p.m. ET—HBO will air its new documentary Our Towns. The film will be available for streaming on HBO Max, and …
Biden’s Foreign Policy Starts at Home : by Peter Nicholas
Soon after President Donald Trump took office, Jake Sullivan and Ben Rhodes were in Myanmar helping an NGO prepare for peace talks between the government …
Zoom Court Is Changing How Justice Is Served : by Eric Scigliano
This article was published online on April 13, 2021. In July, Michelle Rick, then a circuit-court judge in two Michigan counties, tweeted cheerily about a …
The End of Hygiene Theater : by Derek Thompson
Last week, the CDC acknowledged what many of us have been saying for almost nine months about cleaning surfaces to prevent transmission by touch of …
The Reagan Family’s Secret Battle Over the AIDS Crisis : by Karen Tumulty
Adapted from The Triumph of Nancy Reagan, Simon & Schuster 2021. In mid-1981 the U.S. Center for Disease Control noticed a set of medical curiosities: …
Return the National Parks to the Tribes : by David Treuer
Photographs by Katy Grannan This article is part of a new series called “Who Owns America’s Wilderness?” Image above: Glacier National Park, in Montana, as …
“Return the National Parks to the Tribes” — For The Atlantic’s May issue, David Treuer makes a forceful moral case that the jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples. : by
“The idea of a virgin American wilderness—an Eden untouched by humans and devoid of sin—is an illusion. The national parks are sometimes called ‘America’s best …
The Case for Luxury Housing : by M. Nolan Gray
Sandy Carson / GalleryStock If you were intentionally designing a development to spark a NIMBY backlash, you might come up with something that looks a …
How to Stop the Minority-Rule Doom Loop : by Adam Jentleson
President Joe Biden came into office facing four “converging crises”: COVID-19, climate change, racial justice, and the economy. But after a few weeks of fast …
Rethinking the American Wild : by Ross Andersen
Illustrations by Sarah Biscarra Dilley This article is part of a new series called “Who Owns America’s Wilderness?” America’s first national park is …
Don’t Cancel John Muir : by Michelle Nijhuis
This article is part of a new series called “Who Owns America’s Wilderness?” On the morning of July 22, 2020, the …
The Beautiful Things : by Elizabeth Spires
As long as one knows the appeal of the qin, what is the need for the sound of the strings? — Attributed to Tao Yuanming, …
How Land Reform Underpins Authoritarian Regimes : by Michael Albertus
Development economists typically tell a compelling story about land reform: Countries can supercharge their development by leveling inequality and radically reallocating assets. In East Asia, …
Beach Photos Confuse People About How COVID-19 Spreads : by Soham Sankaran
During a pandemic, public-health messaging is essential to saving lives. Media organizations have played a major role in that messaging over the past year, and …
The Atlantic Daily: 7 Poems to Read This Spring : by Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of …
Vaccine Refusal Doesn’t Just Cost Lives. It Costs Money. : by Edward-Isaac Dovere
Imagine it’s 2026. A man shows up in an emergency room, wheezing. He’s got pneumonia, and it’s hitting him hard. He tells one of the …
Mass Vaccination Is a Show of American Might : by Anne Applebaum
Every so often, an emerging technology changes the global balance of power, alters alliances, and shifts the relationships among nations. After World War II, nuclear …
Trump’s Power Won’t Peak for Another 20 Years : by Jacob Finkel
The Trump presidency may be over, but the Trump era has only just begun—at least when it comes to influence over the nation’s courts. Measured …
The Fierce Vulnerability of DMX : by Spencer Kornhaber
At its best, hip-hop reveals the complexity of the human voice, and few artists show that better than DMX did. The sound that came out …
When Good Art Is a Justification for Cruelty : by Shirley Li
Earlier this week, The Hollywood Reporter published a detailed cover story on the veteran film and theater producer Scott Rudin’s alleged mistreatment of his employees. …
The Way Out of Brain Fog : by Pamela Weintraub
Debbie Gustafson of Dresher, Pennsylvania, was on the trip of a lifetime, touring the Galápagos with her family last March, when she began to feel …
Prince Philip, a Man of His Time : by Helen Lewis
Like other members of the British Royal Family, Prince Philip’s reputation is now defined by his portrayal in The Crown: a stern father, a reluctant …
The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base : by Ronald Brownstein
With their opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, Republicans are doubling down on a core bet they’ve made for his presidency: that the GOP …
The Books Briefing: Miss the Movies? Read the Books. : by Mary Stachyra Lopez
After I became a parent, I created a secret ritual: Once a year, I would take a vacation day from work, tell absolutely no one …
When the Pandemic Ends, I Worry I’ll Be Left Behind : by Lisa Grunwald
“This is what we should do,” one of my best friends told me a few weeks ago. “After it’s safe to travel, we should just …
Mitch McConnell Learns It Isn’t Personal—It’s Strictly Business : by David A. Graham
In August 2011, Mitt Romney was campaigning for president at the Iowa State Fair and explaining why he didn’t want to raise taxes on the …
Polaroid Portraits : by Syreeta McFadden
Photographs by Dawoud Bey Image above left: Two Men at Cambridge Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn, 1988; Above right: Woman Wearing Denim, Rochester, 1989 This …
Vaccine Passports Are Inevitable : by James Hamblin
Every day, millions of Americans’ immune systems are reprogrammed by sophisticated strands of frozen nucleic acid. They teach our cells to detect and destroy a …
4 Principles for Reopening the Economy : by Yascha Mounk
America has entered a confusing stage of the pandemic. It is vaccinating its citizens at an impressively fast clip. COVID-19 cases have come down precipitously …
The Man Who Ignited a Hasidic Reckoning Over COVID-19 : by Emma Green
A few weeks ago, Reuven went to a party. It was indoors. No one wore masks. No one who attended was in any rush to …
Photos of the Week: Plastic Lake, Van Cat, Burning Judas : by Alan Taylor
Ballet in an empty Syrian market, a forest fire in California, releasing turtles in Israel, a briefing by the Easter Bunny in the White House, …
It Only Took a Pandemic to Get Americans to Go on Vacation : by Saahil Desai
Here’s a cool trick for blowing any American’s mind. Tell us that in France, so many boulangeries shut down for vacation every summer that it …
When the President Pardons Your Sexual Harasser : by Deborah Copaken
I was 8 when Patty Hearst was kidnapped. For several years, I was afraid to sit in a well-lit room after sundown, because I was …
Elizabeth McCracken on Laughing at Weddings : by Ena Alvarado
Editor’s Note: Read Elizabeth McCracken’s new short story, “The Irish Wedding.” “The Irish Wedding” is taken from Elizabeth McCracken’s forthcoming collection of stories, The Souvenir …
The Irish Wedding : by Elizabeth McCracken
Editor’s Note: Read an interview with Elizabeth McCracken about her writing process. Because Jack didn’t drive—not stick, not on the left side of the road, …
He Coined ‘Genocide’—and Left Us a Poem to Help Understand It : by James Loeffler
Today, Jews around the world mark Yom HaShoah, the day of Holocaust remembrance. Yet where once the memory of the Holocaust promised to unite the …
Georgia’s Voting-Rights Fiasco : by Derek Thompson
What can we honestly say about the new Georgia voting-rights law? The legislation is based on a craven conspiracy theory about 2020 voter fraud. It …
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car : by Dan Pagis
Hulton Archive / Getty here in this carload i am eve with abel my son if you see my other son cain son of man …
The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment : by George Packer
Some things are worth half a century of effort. Fred Wertheimer has been campaigning for good government and against corruption in Washington since 1971. That …
Uyghur Women Aren’t Safe No Matter Where They Go : by Melissa Chan
This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and the Fuller Project. On a summer afternoon nearly four years ago, Maryam Muhammet thought her family’s …
The Best Friends Can Do Nothing for You : by Arthur C. Brooks
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Arthur C. Brooks will discuss the science …
How the Closet Became a Personal Boutique : by Amanda Mull
Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin This article was published online on April 8, 2021. When I was a kid, my mother loved to take me …
Statement From Atlantic Media on Unauthorized Access of Its Servers : by
On March 1, 2021, Atlantic Media, a minority shareholder and former corporate owner of The Atlantic, became aware that a serious issue was affecting its …
Boston in the 1970s : by Alan Taylor
Here’s a collection of some of the sights and events taking place in and around Boston from 1970 to 1979. Below, images of the blizzard …
Why the Coronavirus Can Infect Us Without Making Us Sick : by Sarah Zhang
One of the most perplexing and enduring mysteries of the pandemic is also one of the most fundamental questions about viruses. How can the same …
How Box Tops for Education Lost Its Way : by Lora Kelley
For many young adults and their parents, the words box tops evoke fond memories of cutting out cardboard rectangles and stuffing them into Ziploc bags …
How Super-Straight Started a Culture War on TikTok : by Conor Friedersdorf
Back in February, Kyle Royce, a 20-year-old in British Columbia, Canada, created a video that proved far more controversial and influential than he had imagined …