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The humble booklet is more than just a last redoubt against cheating. Staring down its empty pages, students discover what they’re capable of as writers and thinkers.

Tina Peters.

The chorus of optimism has quieted on several fronts, including Zelensky’s struggle with corruption and his relations with Trump.

Tehran wants the Arab public to balk at the cost of allying with the United States.

The Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s unlikely ascent has come to a tragic end.

Lara Grbac rides a horse named Perlaz in the water during a heat wave in Supetar, on the island of Brac, Croatia, on August 5, 2026.

Piecemeal price cuts won’t solve the Iran war’s effects on inflation.

The hit Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tidies a far more complicated story.

Curbing the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will require stepping up testing.

AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains.

Today The Atlantic is announcing two new staff writers: Madeleine Carlisle and Danyel Smith. This marks a homecoming for Madeleine, who was an Atlantic editorial fellow in 2018 and 2019, and went on to Time magazine and most recently 60 Minutes . Danyel is a legend in journalism who spent the past three years as a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and was previously the editor of both Vibe and Billboard . Below is the staff announcement from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg: Dea

The U.S. is a relative outlier in keeping Christopher Nolan’s movie away from younger audiences.

In the posting era, there’s room only for redemption and improvement narratives.

Not everyone who has a child is fit to love them.

For 15 minutes, the celebrity-gossip blogger Perez Hilton livestreamed his violent self-harm without anyone intervening.

Jane Schoenbrun’s new film interrogates the relationship between what we watch and who we are.

We’ve never had more ways to keep in touch. So why are we talking to one another less?

At summer camp, the kids may be far from home, but technology is keeping many moms and dads tethered to them—and anxious.

Idle threats and munitions shortages have boxed Trump in.

Evacuation has become a familiar, terrible summer ordeal.

As a busy adult, I approach foundational, complicated ideas with the help of the intellectual biography.

The French writers of the postwar era argued that the author’s life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin’s lively new book proves them wrong.

The latest Trump renovation project would violate a basic rule of building maintenance.

Why young people are giving up on love

The president’s latest attempt to limit who is an American by birth is plagued by weak legal arguments and nonsensical claims.

Abdul El-Sayed called out Democrats. Now he needs to bring them together.

Consumers are so afraid of getting colors wrong, they don’t use them at all.

The former Senate GOP leader’s legacy will make America harder to govern for years to come.

In the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them.

The House speaker doesn’t want to get involved in the Max Miller scandal—or anything else that might seem like part of his basic duties as a leader.

In Richard Russo’s novels, the American dream feels like a cruel joke.

A new film pokes fun at Gen Z’s inhibitions—erotic and otherwise.

New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.

A new film about Anthony Bourdain uses its subject to examine how a young person comes to love cooking.

The luxury automaker is beaming a Spider-Man ad into its cars.

Are AI companies to blame?

As Donald Trump faces one humiliation after another, he is attacking those he blames.

Charlie Surfs Up barks as he is pushed through the breakers in the second heat of very large dogs during the World Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica, California, on August 3, 2024.

Panelists joined to discuss the president’s continued interest in renovating landmarks in the nation’s capital.

Margaret Hoover on Herbert Hoover’s life, presidency, and legacy, and the renovation of his presidential library. Plus: Trump’s dropped Reflecting Pool indictment and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré