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But how long can the impulsive, reactive president show restraint?

The president has spent the past week re-litigating old conflicts.

It’s never been more exhausting to buy stuff.

The history of a semantic mess––and a way out of it

New speakers include: Senator Mark Kelly, Padma Lakshmi, Joe Kahn, Gina Raimondo, Ben McKenzie, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Linklater

Chang-rae Lee’s new novel examines a young man’s attempt to be tough—and its far-reaching consequences.

Readers respond to our May 2026 issue.

In his new novel, gay men struggle to escape violence in Kingston.

Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.

A short story

Whether dads do their fair share of the housework appears to have no effect on fertility.

Tomorrow’s eclipse will be the country’s first in a century. Next year’s will be even more dramatic.

Republicans have no incentive to let them forget past excesses.

Some institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to look shortsighted.

While Europe braces for yet another heat wave, prolonged drought conditions have dropped inland waterways to record-setting low levels, exposing long-submerged shipwrecks and affecting navigation.

Why Jeff Flake still believes the spell over his party will break

Summer is the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful.

Police cameras can help make the criminal-justice system both fairer and less punitive—if we let them.

For The Atlantic’s September cover story, staff writer Tyler Austin Harper writes about how he came to lose faith in academia, chronicling his recent career as a professor and his decision to leave his tenure-track position after five years at Bates College…

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

Living outside is a more dreadful prospect during a heat wave.

A few years ago, there was a push for acceptance of different body types. Now? Not so much.

The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement.

A poem

The country’s most beloved men are paragons of diversity, but ethnic resentment is still winning.