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02:03 Are You Ready for Brown Skittles?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is cracking down on artificial food dyes.

01:21 What the Democratic Infighting Reveals

The party remains in a state of disunion—not only about their future, but about how to address the present catastrophe.

22:52 Is There Hope for Liberal Christianity?

Pope Francis leaves behind a Church that is moving away from the faith he championed.

21:48 Who Reads Entire Lawsuits for Fun?

Celebrity legal disputes are juicier than gossip, less stressful than true crime, and unavoidable on social media.

19:49 Dear James: Never Too Old for a Barbaric Yawp

A tip of the hat to our well-seasoned correspondents

19:49 Seven Books About How the Earth Is Changing Right Now

These visceral reported accounts will help readers better understand the new ecological status quo.

18:39 The Two OpenAIs

One builds chatbots, the other chases profits.

17:51 Pete Hegseth’s Patriotic Duty Is to Resign

His incompetence is putting America’s security at risk.

22/04 The Force That Holds Trump’s Coalition Together

Traditional Republican elites tolerate the authoritarianism because they want the tax cuts.

22/04 A Ticking Clock on American Freedom

It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

22/04 Minority Rule in America

A political scientist explains why American democracy is so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.

22/04 The Pentagon Is in a State of Confusion

Trump is supporting his defense secretary—for now. But some in the administration are speculating about how long Pete Hegseth will last.

22/04 The Gen Z Lifestyle Subsidy

Just like start-ups a decade ago, AI companies are wooing young people with giveaways and promos.

22/04 Pete Hegseth Is Running Out of Excuses

The president is playing a dangerous game with the country’s security.

21/04 The Multimillion-Dollar Friendship Industry Has a Big Flaw

Meetups with strangers probably won’t fix loneliness.

21/04 The Worst Job in America

Who would want to be president of an Ivy League school?

21/04 What It Means to Tell the Truth About America

And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”

21/04 Joan Didion Wouldn’t Have Wanted This

The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.

21/04 The Real Legacy of Pope Francis

Early in his papacy, Francis made a declaration that now appears prophetic: “I want a mess.”

21/04 ‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’

Chinese manufacturers seem ready for a trade war.

21/04 Can Rural Health Care Survive DOGE?

The scramble to save a federal grant program that puts doctors in poor towns.

21/04 The Papacy Is Forever Changed

Francis, who died this morning, transformed far more than the priorities of the Catholic Church.

21/04 How to Fuel Up

How should we feed ourselves over the course of a lifetime?

21/04 ‘The Last of Us’ and the Big Twist That Could Have Been

The show went too far in the wrong direction with its most shocking moment.

20/04 1994

A poem

20/04 Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.

20/04 A Strangely Moving Cartoon Show

Culture and entertainment musts from Allegra Frank

20/04 What If China Wins the Trade War?

The United States could still prevail if it does everything right. The problem is that the Trump administration is doing everything wrong.

19/04 Grandparenting Is Changing

As grandparents take on more caregiving, their relationships with both their kids and their grandkids may start to look different.

19/04 The Migrants Who Are Fleeing South

For years, millions of people traveled through Central America north to the United States. Now that flow is changing direction.

19/04 What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies

For a lot of people, it’s getting too expensive to knit or fish.

19/04 Israel Has an Emerging Rival

If Trump wants to prevent another regional conflict, calling Turkey’s president a “friend” won’t cut it.

18/04 When Laughing Feels Like the Only Option

If desperate times call for desperate measures, then dark times call for dark jokes.

18/04 Britain Rules on What a Woman Is

The country’s highest court has ruled that under the Equality Act, woman means “biological female.”

18/04 Was ChatGPT the Worst Thing to Happen to OpenAI?

Success can be a distraction.

18/04 The Conservative Case for Leaving Harvard Alone

The Supreme Court precedent allowing the IRS to revoke a university’s tax-exempt status is a textualist’s nightmare.

18/04 The Gleeful, Chaotic World of Underground Comics

Diane DiMassa’s "Hothead Paisan" is full of unrestrained, devil-may-care attitude.

18/04 Trump Is Flirting With Economic Disaster

By threatening the independence of the Federal Reserve, the president risks undermining many of his key goals.

18/04 A Scientific Revolution by Push Notification

About that “possible sign of life” on a distant planet ...

18/04 The Harem of Elon Musk

The DOGE leader is offering the Republican Party a very different vision of fatherhood.

18/04 The Lies About Josh Shapiro Have Consequences

An attack on the Pennsylvania governor shows the dangers of tendentious misrepresentations.

18/04 ‘Sinners’ Is a Strange, Profound Triumph

The new film is a transfixing take on the Southern Gothic.

18/04 PBS Pulled a Film for Political Reasons, Then Changed Its Mind

A window into how the network is handling the new Trump era

18/04 Grover Norquist Can’t Believe What He’s Hearing

Is the GOP about to raise taxes?

18/04 A Trade War With China Is a Very Bad Idea

Yes, the U.S. has the larger consumer economy. No, that won’t be enough to avoid major (and majorly self-inflicted) pain.

17/04 Life Before the Measles Vaccine

When the virus was endemic, it spread in a world very different from today’s.

17/04 When Life Requires a Subscription Fee

In its new season, “Black Mirror” turns a modern conundrum into a deadly proposition.

17/04 What Recourse Does the Supreme Court Actually Have?

As the Trump administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to deploying the most powerful tool they have: contempt of court.

17/04 A Novel That Takes Mundane Work Seriously

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

17/04 How to Know Yourself Like Socrates

If you can make honest self-awareness your superpower, you will be happier, more empathetic, and more successful.

17/04 Ed Martin Has Completely Disqualified Himself

Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney is a Russian-state-TV darling.

17/04 Trump Needs Someone to Blame

The Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, is that someone.

17/04 Where Trump Gets His Most Dangerous Ideas

The president’s closest allies are not merely acquiescing to his authoritarian desires—they are fueling them.

17/04 America’s Mad King

The president has grown more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic.

17/04 The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen

A plan was set in motion with no idea of how to stop it.

17/04 How Organ Meat Got Into Smoothies

Americans hated offal. Now it’s a trendy food—in grocery stores and online.

17/04 Sarah McBride Is Used to the Hate

The first openly trans member of the House has been purposely misgendered before. But “it is a different thing when it’s in the congressional record.”

17/04 How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia

Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.

17/04 Emergency Food for 3 Million Children Is Stuck in DOGE Limbo

Elon Musk said he would preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.

17/04 The Pardon-to-Prison Pipeline

Trump granted clemency to people who keep ending up back in trouble with the law.

16/04 Trump’s Trade War Could Turbocharge Deforestation in the Amazon

Massive tariffs on China will drive up soybean production in Brazil at the rainforest’s expense.

16/04 The Real Discomfort of ‘Adolescence’

The show’s portrayal of a troubled teen asks viewers to stay engulfed in his mindset—for longer than many might want.

16/04 We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like

The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

16/04 How Rome’s Senators Got Robbed of Their Republic

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

16/04 Trump's Bad Poker Hand

Plus: an interview with Ontario Premier Doug Ford

16/04 What 'Silicon Valley' Knew About Tech-Bro Paternalism

The show anticipated what can happen when masculine entitlement and artificial intelligence meet.

16/04 I Dyed an Easter Potato

The price of eggs has some online creators suggesting that potatoes are a suitable alternative. Please believe me, they are wrong.

16/04 Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?

The classic kids’ game teaches a lesson about public health that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to learn.

16/04 The Manufactured Chaos in Government

For federal workers, the problem isn’t just low morale. It’s the dysfunction.

16/04 The Perfect Pop Star for a Dumb Stunt

Katy Perry is exactly the kind of celebrity to go to space.

15/04 Phase Two Will Be Worse Than DOGE

First came the chaos. Next comes the retribution.

15/04 The Political Novelist Who Never Stood Still

Mario Vargas Llosa, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you had to admire.

15/04 How the Trump Administration Is Taxing the IRS

The DOGE cuts to the agency will actually cost the U.S. government trillions of dollars in lost revenue.

15/04 What the Courts Can Still Do to Constrain Trump

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation case is a test for the rule of law.

15/04 They Never Thought Trump Would Have Them Deported

The administration’s drive to carry out the largest campaign in history has ensnared people who didn’t see themselves as targets.

15/04 How to Say No to the President

My father taught me that American values are nothing without those who have the courage to uphold them.

15/04 What ‘Adolescence’ Understands About Phones and Kids

Jonathan Haidt on how the show portrays the horrors of a screens-based childhood

15/04 Harvard Literally Can’t Comply

The demands placed on Harvard by the Trump administration are internally contradictory.

15/04 Dear James: I’m Dreading My Family Vacation

I want to enjoy the time with my relatives, but they trigger me.

15/04 Iran Couldn’t Avoid Talking With Trump Any Longer

Events have forced the Islamic Republic to negotiate with the United States.

15/04 The Attack on Josh Shapiro Endangers Democratic Norms

By the time political violence is common enough to show up in statistics, the damage to society is done.

15/04 Republicans Are Right About Soda

Public-health groups are tying themselves in knots over a GOP crackdown on the sugary drink.

15/04 The Commons: Stuck In Place

Readers respond to our March 2025 cover story and more.

15/04 All Worship, No Dissent

Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in values: from inquiry to reverence.

15/04 When the Fight for Democracy Is Personal

Allison Riggs discusses the protracted fight for her seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and what it means for the entire country.

15/04 Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?

States are trying to keep kids off adult websites with new age-verification laws. It’s a textbook case of how tech regulation can backfire.

15/04 Trump’s Empty Response to the Josh Shapiro Attack

The president was quick to condemn political violence. It’s hard to take him at his word.

15/04 Harvard Chooses Defiance

Columbia found out the hard way that capitulation doesn’t work. So why should other universities give in to the Trump administration’s demands?

14/04 Trump Dares the Supreme Court to Do Something

His administration takes a new step toward authoritarianism.

14/04 Trump Is Running Economic Development In Reverse

The combination of tariffs and cuts to scientific research seems designed to move America down the value chain.

14/04 Trump Is Defying the Supreme Court

The Court told the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. So far, the administration is pretending to comply while refusing to do so.

14/04 What Bernie’s Largest-Ever Rally Revealed

The American left’s favorite act hopes to rally the resistance with unvarnished populism.

14/04 Being Disabled Made Me a Better Parent

And the lessons I’ve learned could help any caregiver.

14/04 Why My Firm Is Standing Up for the Constitution

Big Law should remain independent rather than have the government dictate who it represents.

14/04 The Absolutely, Positively Correct Way to Load Your Dishwasher

The internet is filled with advice. So why are people still arguing about this?

14/04 Why Am I So Tired?

The specific exhaustion of being a mother

14/04 How R. Crumb Tapped Into America’s Screwy Id

The illustrator was called a sicko, a misogynist, a racist. But he found something the culture was craving.

14/04 How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35

Spoiler: Life after menopause has some big perks.

14/04 The Kleptocracy Presidency

Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.

14/04 Trump’s Trade War Handed China a Strategic Advantage

The president signaled that the U.S. doesn’t care about its allies and trading partners—including Taiwan.

13/04 The ‘SNL’ Sketch That Tackled Your Food-Price Anxiety

The show found an ideal vehicle for satirizing the country’s economic anxiety.

13/04 For the Duration

A poem by Katie Ford

13/04 America and Its Universities Need a New Social Contract

$50 for STEM, 5¢ for citizenship—that's how America apportions its education dollars. Our beleaguered universities must redress the balance—helping the country and themselves.

13/04 The Age of Intensive Grandparenting

Older Americans might be more involved in child care than ever before.

13/04 Five Joyful Ways to Spend Time Online

Check out these recommendations from our writers and editors.

13/04 Trump Declares War on the Professional Class

The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.

12/04 There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster

America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again.

12/04 A War Movie That Requires Patience

In Alex Garland’s new film, soldiers spend as much time waiting around as they do in battle.

12/04 Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy

What America might have learned, but didn’t, from Britain’s 2022 financial-markets debacle

12/04 How Choosing Which Oil to Buy Got So Complicated

Canola? Olive? Vegetable?

12/04 One Man Doesn’t Have to Control the Economy

Congress can—and should—stop Trump’s tariffs.

12/04 ‘The Last of Us’ and the Power of Video Games

Before playing "The Last of Us," I had never thought that a video game could be a work of art.

11/04 Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now

The social-media giant has manifested its final form: not digital connector, but digital bazaar.

11/04 The Trump Administration Is Jeopardizing the AI Boom

A disaster for American innovation

11/04 Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.

11/04 Who Are We, Really?

A new subgenre of literature explores what's uncovered when you take away someone's public-facing persona.

11/04 The Minecraft Movie Became a Hit for the Wrong Reasons

The best-selling video game of all time is magical in a way the film doesn’t capture.

11/04 Why China Won’t Give In to Trump

Xi Jinping, like his American counterpart, needs to be the top dog.

11/04 The Pro-Baby Coalition of the Far Right

Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus, but the left was mostly absent at a recent pro-natalism conference.

11/04 When Political Conflict Changes the Meaning of Education

At its best, The Teacher captures the intimate horrors of life under harrowing circumstances.

11/04 Worse Than Signalgate

Accidentally sharing attack plans with a journalist in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.

11/04 Can I Still Teach My Yale Course on Racism?

Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors who wish to teach their students the truth about the country’s past.

11/04 The Revenge of Seed Oils

Robert F. Kennedy’s boogeyman will get a boost from tariffs.

11/04 Trump Is Already Undermining the Next Election

And the one after that, and the one after that.

11/04 The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived

The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.

10/04 Will All of This Really Make America Great?

Trump’s go-it-alone approach means voluntarily abdicating the country’s global influence.

10/04 When Your Dream Job Is a Lie

Hacks paints a deflating picture of what it’s like to reach the top of your field.

10/04 The Problem With Abe Lincoln’s Face

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

10/04 The Tariff Damage That Can’t Be Undone

Nothing here has ended well. In fact, it hasn’t even ended.

10/04 A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

10/04 Trump Didn’t Actually Undo Tariffs

You can’t just undo a global economic crisis.

10/04 Trump Says He Is Serious About a Third Term

Why do Republicans keep claiming he isn’t?

10/04 Trump Is Showing Why Dictatorships Fail

The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

10/04 Can We Love the Internet and Hate Its Owners?

Vauhini Vara’s new memoir critiques the web in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry.

10/04 What RFK Jr. Told Grieving Texas Families About the Measles Vaccine

The nation’s top public-health official has been promoting suspicions of the shot even as he offers comfort.

10/04 Moneyball for Bats

Why are baseball players swinging bowling pins?

10/04 Why I Played the Kennedy Center

How our band made the decision to perform—and why we probably won’t be welcomed back

10/04 The Making of Dwyane Wade

The Hall of Famer reached the highest heights of the basketball world. But becoming the man and father he wants to be has been his greatest challenge.

10/04 Mike Johnson Made the Easy Part Look Hard

Republicans passed a budget—barely. But they still haven’t resolved their biggest disagreements over Trump’s agenda.

10/04 El Salvador’s Faustian Bargain

The president chose security over justice. For how long will his country accept the price?

10/04 Be a Patriot

Fleeing America before you are threatened feels a lot like obeying in advance.

10/04 The Art of the Retreat

Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.

09/04 The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts

The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory.

09/04 The Cost of Chaos

The Liberation Day pause is better than the Liberation Day policy itself was. But Americans are getting a raw deal one way or another.

09/04 Trump Folds—Kind of, Sort of

The tariff pause means that the president is committing himself even more strongly to unpredictability.

09/04 Why Trump Paused the Tariffs

A stock-market swoon, or even a recession, might not frighten him, but the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does.

09/04 The Tariff Reality Test

Trump backed down. His supporters think that was the plan all along.

09/04 Trump Is Ruining His Supporters’ Dreams

The president won by appealing to strivers, hoping to get rich. His tariffs now threaten that support.

09/04 The Dumbest Economic Policy in Modern History

Trump’s tariff plan looks like an abject disaster for America, even judged against the benchmarks the administration has set for itself.

09/04 This Economic Crisis Is Very Bad and Very Voluntary

Trump isn’t listening to what the stock market is telling him. He’s not negotiating with foreign leaders in good faith. He’s not hearing what corporate CEOs are saying.

09/04 The Comic-Book Artist Who Mastered Space and Time

Jules Feiffer, who died in January, taught me many things, but one comic strip mattered most of all.

09/04 Breathing in America Is Going to Get More Dangerous

A third of Americans still breathe unhealthy air after decades of improvements—which the Trump administration wants to roll back.

09/04 What’s So Screwy About the Trump Tariffs

Trade barriers will make U.S. goods more expensive to produce, costlier to buy, and inferior to the foreign competition.

09/04 How the Latin Mass Split the Catholic Church

Pope Francis’s restrictions on the ancient rite may have backfired.

09/04 Due Process for Me, Not for Thee

Donald Trump has benefited greatly from America’s constitutional protections, but he seeks to deprive others of them.

08/04 Trumpworld Makes the Case Against Trump

MAGA supporters are attempting to understand Trump’s catastrophic decision making, while accepting Trump’s infallibility as a given.

08/04 Bombing the Houthis Won’t Work

Trump’s war has no strategy and is likely to backfire.

08/04 Buy That New Phone Now

But only if you absolutely have to.

08/04 A Truly Macabre ‘White Lotus’ Plot

What was Tim Ratliff’s arc really about?

08/04 Dear James: I Can’t Stop Thinking About Death

Is this just a midlife crisis?

08/04 How to Prepare for a Recession

The older you are, and the more likely you are to get laid off, the more important it is to have liquid savings.

08/04 Elise Stefanik Doesn’t Want Your Pity

Inside Trump’s decision to kill the MAGA star’s Cabinet nomination

08/04 The Relentless Rise of Jensen Huang

The new tech titan built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion business by not thinking about how his computer chips would be used.

08/04 Val Kilmer Always Stole the Show

Even in his tiniest roles, the late actor made big impressions.

08/04 The Kids Who Got Bused—And Became Democrats

A 1970s experiment in Kentucky reveals a permanent political mark.

08/04 Trump’s Tariffs Are a Disaster. Why Won’t Democrats Say So?

The president’s allies are putting up a bigger fight than the opposition party is.

08/04 Trump Is Willing to Take the Pain

Advisers say the president is tuning out the markets and coverage and isn’t worried about the political impact of his tariffs—at least, not yet.

07/04 Meet the New Trump, Same as the Old Trump

The past couple of weeks have shown that the White House truly has no idea what it’s doing.

07/04 The Missing Catharsis of That ‘White Lotus’ Finale

By packing in too many narrative beats, the latest season of Mike White’s anthology series lost sight of itself.

07/04 ‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’

The Trump administration’s arguments in a high-profile immigration case have much broader implications.

07/04 The Late-Night Experiment That Puts Comedy First

With his Netflix talk show, John Mulaney injects some disorder into a languid genre.

07/04 Children Aren’t the Only Ones Vulnerable to Measles

Unvaccinated children are becoming unvaccinated adults, who are at risk of dangerous complications.

07/04 So Long, American Free Trade

The tariffs will destroy another pillar of American power and leave a vacuum for others to fill.

07/04 America Has Gotten Coretta Scott King Wrong

Her ghost-written autobiography diminishes her, and I found out why.

07/04 What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Oligarchy

Putin’s Russia shows what happens when billionaire businessmen choose to back a strongman.

07/04 Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun

Towns near the Canadian border are suffering.

07/04 The Rise of the Vineyard Vines Nihilists

MAGA populists claim to be helping the working class, but they’re really after one thing: raw power.

07/04 How to Defy Death

Does biohacking actually work?

06/04 Wayne Gretzky Was a Canadian Hero

But his countrymen aren’t mourning the loss of his scoring record.

06/04 Jack Black Knew Best

The veteran performer understood how to engage the live audience on "SNL"—to often-hilarious effect.

06/04 The Cabinet Secretary Who Likes His Cookies Freshly Baked

The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.

06/04 Chickadee

A poem by Stanley Plumly

06/04 The Comfort Class

People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

06/04 Why Is Trump Mad at the Zoo?

In search of “improper ideology” among the animals

06/04 Parenting Lessons From One of Earth’s Tiniest Creatures

None

06/04 A Hilarious Movie That Understands the South

Culture and entertainment musts from Annie Joy Williams

06/04 The Resistance Rumbles

The “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C., drew thousands of people with a lot of feelings—but as-yet-inchoate anger at the Trump administration.

05/04 The Plight of the K-Beauty Devotee

Tariffs have come for snail mucin.

05/04 Laura Loomer Is a Warning

No one else with direct access to the president has been as outwardly bigoted.

05/04 Trump’s Greenland Ambitions Are No Joke

The Danes seem to believe him, and so should Americans.

05/04 The Slow Progress of Baseball

What’s changed, and what’s stayed the same

05/04 Forget the Resistance. Welcome to the Slog.

Protests have gotten smaller and more dispersed in Trump’s second term. Is that a bad thing?

05/04 Foreign Tourists Are Taking Trump at His Word

Deliberately insulting other countries is bad for the U.S. economy.

05/04 Trump Is Gaslighting Us

Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.

05/04 AI Faces Are Uncannily Perfect. I Hate Them.

Technology isn’t just changing the way we look—it’s changing our sense of how we should look.

05/04 Why Canadians Are Better Than Americans at Protesting Trump Right Now

A unified movement like “Buy Canadian” is hard to find in America.

04/04 Wall Street Blew It

Investors discounted everything Trump has ever said about trade and tariffs. We’re all going to pay for that mistake.

04/04 A New Golden Age for Bootleggers

Canada’s ultimate retaliation for Trump’s tariffs will be the cross-border smuggling of cheaper goods by Americans.

04/04 The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old

As the deadline for action on the TikTok ban-or-sell issue is once again extended, who cares anymore?

04/04 Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff Plan

Once you’ve said you might negotiate, nobody is going to believe you when you change your mind and say you’ll never negotiate.

04/04 What’s Next for America’s Largest Creative-Writing Conference

Trump’s executive orders have made it downstream to authors.

04/04 The Rise of Fluid Intelligence

François Chollet is on a quest to make AI a bit more human.

04/04 Defying the Courts Will Backfire

The public has not responded kindly to other politicians who have tried this in the past.

04/04 The Trump Administration’s Illogical Approach to State Secrets

Officials have been careless with sensitive information while claiming that innocuous facts can’t be public.

04/04 Jonathan Majors Is Looking for Redemption. Will He Find It?

The actor wants back in the industry’s good graces, but his new movie, "Magazine Dreams"—and the surrounding press tour—isn’t enough.

04/04 America Already Tried the ‘Natural’ Approach to Mental Health

RFK Jr.’s clearest ideas about psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.

04/04 Who Needs Intimacy?

Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.

04/04 A Clean-Energy Boom Could Be Built on Oil and Gas Technology

Little of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly.

04/04 Trump’s Anti-Semitism Agenda Isn’t About Jews

The administration is using the conceit of protecting Jews to protect its policies from criticism.

04/04 Democrats Have a Problem

They can’t stop talking about their problems.

04/04 The Conspiracy Theorist Advising Trump

The chaos inside the White House national-security team persists.

03/04 The World Economy Is Trapped Inside Donald Trump’s Head

The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.

03/04 RFK Jr.’s Misguided Nostalgia

America was never healthy to begin with.

03/04 Will Iran Cut a Deal With Trump?

The supreme leader may not be looking for a bromance, but Tehran seems ready to talk.

03/04 How an Archery Lesson Can Make You Happier

It’s not about handling a bow and arrow. It’s about the Zen of letting go.

03/04 The Tariff to End All Tariffs?

In search of a theory behind Donald Trump’s perplexing new trade policy

03/04 What Trump Learned From the First Travel Ban

The administration has found a legal strategy to help it obfuscate significant factual details: go fast.

03/04 Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

They could be key to recapturing the culture.

03/04 The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption.

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century gilded.

03/04 Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time

The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.

03/04 A New Force of Indian Country

In 1969, my father gave voice to an activist generation of Native Americans.

03/04 Trump’s Tariff Plan Is Going to Hurt

The surprisingly expansive levies on imports will open up a future of high prices.

03/04 The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs

Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.

03/04 RFK Jr.’s End Game

The health secretary’s indiscriminate layoffs will undermine his own priorities.

03/04 Elon Musk Lost His Big Bet

Grievance politics can only carry him so far.

03/04 Cory Booker, Endurance Athlete

The New Jersey senator broke congressional records by speaking for more than 25 hours. How?

02/04 Introducing: The David Frum Show

The Atlantic is launching a new weekly show, hosted by staff writer David Frum.

02/04 What the Nintendo Switch 2 Really Is

A new kart-racing appliance

02/04 Trump’s Day of Reckoning

The president’s allies are privately acknowledging that he is in a rough stretch.

02/04 Wisconsin’s Message for Trump

Elon Musk has become a political boat anchor.

02/04 Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag

To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.

02/04 Why You Should Work Like It’s the ’90s

When you leave the office for the day, really leave.

02/04 The False Cheer of ‘Single Positivity’

Why can’t we just admit it’s okay to want a romantic partner?

02/04 Miscarriage and Motherhood

What having a baby taught me about the illusion of control

02/04 No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers

They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump.

02/04 Can I Teach the First Amendment If I Only Have a Green Card?

Protections on free speech look weaker than they did when I became a permanent resident.

02/04 The Question Progressives Refuse to Answer

As Democrats became the party of proceduralism, they sidestepped a crucial debate.

02/04 The DOGE Plan That Endangers U.S. Revenue

Recent history provides clues about how IRS cuts may lose America money.

01/04 The Evermaskers

The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense.

01/04 Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded.

01/04 Students Yelled at Me. I’m Fine.

All Americans should defend campus protesters.

01/04 The Big Story: The Fallout From the Signal Controversy

Jeffrey Goldberg joins Ashley Parker to discuss breaking the Signal story, the fallout, and more. Don’t miss this subscriber-only event on Thursday, April 3, at 11:30 a.m. ET.

01/04 Dear James: My Husband’s Whistling Is Driving Me Mad

When I ask him to stop, he just gets angry.

01/04 So Much for the MAGA Divorce

The nativist right is starting to make peace with Elon Musk.

01/04 Why We’re Still Talking About the ‘Trauma Plot’

People will always experience terrible things, and many will want to write about them.

01/04 The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come

The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.

01/04 How Leonard Bernstein Changed the Canon

In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler's place in 20th-century music.

01/04 What to Make of Miracles

In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts.

01/04 Are Blue Zones a Mirage?

The age detectives are fighting.

01/04 An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.