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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking on the fuzziest category in food science.

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

An infamous 1978 massacre offers a warning for America today.

The sun’s corona glows as the moon completely blocks the sun during the totality phase of the total solar eclipse, as seen from San Asensio, La Rioja region, Spain, on August 12, 2026.

Finalist, Ocean Adventure. A free diver is surrounded by a school of sardines, which part to form a halo as they move around her.

Francesca Hong’s surprise loss in Wisconsin is a blessing to the Democratic Party.

Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?

A new regional pact highlights Iran’s isolation.

Phoebe Bridgers’s new record is heavy with post-pandemic disappointment.

The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race.

The president cleverly evaded a serious threat, but he shouldn’t have kept it a secret.

When it comes to technology, the answer to the future could come from the past.

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

The film industry sees Reddit and YouTube as gold mines, but turning a viral video into the next big movie isn’t so easy.

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.

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.