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

Levels of the hormone have dropped in the past half century—but no one knows exactly why.

How long can the impulsive, reactive president show restraint?

Five years after the U.S. withdrawal, al-Qaeda remains weak and the Taliban has become an unexpected partner.

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

It’s never been more exhausting to buy stuff.

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

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

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

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

A short story

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.

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

Readers respond to our May 2026 issue.

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.

The Pfalzgrafenstein toll castle sits in the middle of the Rhine River, seen at a very low water level, in Kaub, Germany, on August 10, 2026.

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 in Maine. “I saw clearly now what should have been obvious all along. Bates was not a good place to work, nor a moral one. And the problem went beyond a single college: Bates was a node in a higher-education system that offered teenagers an

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

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

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

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

A poem

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

The myth and science of the country’s favorite floofy, fluffy cuddle-badgers

The scandals of the president’s first term now seem quaint.

An 1846 caricature of the Romantic composer Hector Berlioz, known for his love of big, loud orchestras

The country Trump once disdained as a burden has become a military powerhouse.