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

A poem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains.

Tina Peters.

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.

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.

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

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

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

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

It’s the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful.