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Why Jeff Flake still believes the spell over his party will break

Summer is the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful.

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.

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

Some institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to look shortsighted.

Republicans have no incentive to let them forget past excesses.

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

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

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

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

A short story

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

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.

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

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

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

Readers respond to our May 2026 issue.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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