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Jay Young looking at a photograph of his father, Jeffrey Young, at his home in Frisco, Texas

Rose Horowitch on her cover story and what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”

Dave Eggers’s career has long balanced two major impulses. In his new book, he lets them wrestle on the page.

Vincent Smith on rising grocery prices and whether there will be relief anytime soon. Plus: Trump’s broken economic policies and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology .

As the government began to figure out why people were getting sick, the messaging got only worse.

The Hugging Face hack reveals that the web is in a vulnerable new era.

The president and the Pentagon are not being up front about what has happened in more than 20 weeks of hostilities.

Ella Langley’s country music offers an appealing commodity for this moment: moderation.

Too many institutions are teaching young people to stay quiet.

Republicans grilled a museum head, intensifying Donald Trump’s campaign to reshape the American story.

The new blockbuster’s box-office success affirms the power of spectacle.

Like Tom Cruise in the movie, the defense secretary appears stuck in his past.

Today The Atlantic is announcing the first speakers, film screenings, podcast tapings, and book talks for the 18th annual Atlantic Festival , taking place September 17–19 in New York City. The festival will for the second year be anchored at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in downtown Manhattan and hold programming at venues around the city, including the Tenement Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library, and Metrograph. For the opening night, The Atlantic is partnering with Juilliard to present

A teardown of the upper chamber would be good for American democracy.

Replacing a Senate candidate is messy, but so is democracy.

No classified briefings, no press conferences, no acknowledgment that the conflict with Iran is back on

Every politician does some pandering, but few do it as clumsily, or with such evident disdain for their own supporters, as the vice president.

In the 19th century, “artisans of the brain” flooded to office jobs to prove themselves.

A luxury development planned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump has spurred anti-corruption protests.

America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.

The country’s new prime minister is trying to navigate between Washington and Tehran.

Republicans in the state legislature abruptly slashed funding for civil legal aid for low-income clients this month.

AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.

The secretary of defense is making one of the most dangerous jobs in America more lethal.

The Trump administration is giving Saudi Arabia exactly what it wants. For what?

The Supreme Court is mostly giving the Trump administration what it wants—with interesting exceptions.

The United States is intensifying its hunt for narcos within the Mexican government. Is this all prelude to an attack?

The fall of Ukraine’s top general, Oleksandr Syrsky, leaves younger officers to finish the reforms that he resisted.

How Markwayne Mullin went from Indian Country to Trump’s immigration enforcer

A policy wonk who could lead the FDA has angered “Make America Healthy Again” activists.

The past few months have shown just how anachronistic and costly the Jones Act is.

Tech companies need to generate huge revenues fast, or the economy could be in trouble.

Metal credit cards are getting out of hand.

Senators elected this November will be in office when America’s most popular federal program is on track to run out of money.

The generation’s novels tend to focus on the flatness of modern life—but alienation doesn’t have to be dull.

The therapist Esther Perel has a theory about America’s eroticism shortage.

We should really have a better way of knowing when it’s safe to go outside.

Members of the press photograph a dead mouse caught by Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the U.K. Cabinet Office, during incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street, London, on July 21, 2026.

Popular gray-market drugs may soon be easy to get through mainstream channels.