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February 16, 2026

The Founders Opposed 'Nationalized' Elections

The writers of the Constitution sought an approach the balanced control between the states and the federal government.

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February 16, 2026

America Needs Self-Evident Truths

The public reaction to the violence in Minneapolis suggests that we have held on to our sense of universal morality.

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February 16, 2026

How Many Wolves Is Enough?

Now that thousands live in the United States, some people would like to kill more of them.

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February 16, 2026

150 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1876

A collection of images showing events and sights from around the world in 1876—the year the United States celebrated its 100th anniversary w...

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February 16, 2026

Why Young Voters Are Turning on Trump

Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.

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February 16, 2026

Crypto Is a Victim of Its Own Success

Bitcoin, which has been plummeting in value, has come to feel less like a rebel upstart, more like an eccentric uncle.

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February 15, 2026

Where Trump Went Wrong in His Quest for the Nobel Prize

In exclusive interviews, Norway's prime minister and the head of the Nobel Institute tell Isaac Stanley-Beckett and Simon Shuster how they h...

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February 15, 2026

Marco Rubio Doesn't Get It

The Trump administration continues to lambast friends and empower foes.

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February 15, 2026

Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: On Target

Biathletes stand side by side during a shooting bout.

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February 15, 2026

A poem by Divya Victor: ‘Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History’

A poem

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February 15, 2026

Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless

‘Carriers’ of certain genetic diseases, who have just one affected gene, can have symptoms, too.

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February 15, 2026

A Prequel TV Series That Surprises Viewers

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a sports-stadium anthem, and more culture and entertainment recommendations

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February 14, 2026

Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: A Victory Leap

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen of Team Brazil jumps for joy on the Olympic podium.

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February 14, 2026

Greenland's Jens-Frederik Nielsen Is Belle of the Ball

Few know Jens-Frederik Nielsen, but everyone wants to talk to him.

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February 14, 2026

The Rise of Stephen Miller

Panelists joined to discuss the senior Trump aide—and how he’s become the enforcer of some of the president’s most controversial policies.

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February 14, 2026

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

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February 14, 2026

An Enduring Assumption About Love

Focusing only on specific traits or habits misses the point of dating.

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February 14, 2026

What ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ Got Wrong

After 9/11, Samuel P. Huntington’s big idea was everywhere. But he missed the coming war within.

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February 14, 2026

The 10 Indie Movies to Look for This Year

A riotous sex comedy, a documentary about cement, and more standouts from the Sundance Film Festival

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February 14, 2026

The Internet's Nihilism Crisis

This is what it looks like when nothing matters.

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February 14, 2026

Kristi Noem’s Audience of One

The DHS secretary is suddenly talking about more than just mass deportations.

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February 13, 2026

Why Europe Is Talking About Nuclear Weapons

Declining confidence in America means deepening discussions of collective European deterrence.

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February 13, 2026

Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT

What Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “AI revolution” really looks like

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February 13, 2026

Today's Atlantic Trivia Questions and Answers, Week 17

Test your knowledge—and read our latest stories for a little extra help.

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February 13, 2026

Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Soaring Through the Dark

All eyes are on the snowboarder Yuto Totsuka as he passes overhead.

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February 13, 2026

Trump Is Suing His Own Government

The president is seeking billions in taxpayer dollars from his own IRS. Whether he can do this is perhaps less important than whether he sho...

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February 13, 2026

The Books Briefing: The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’

A cherished grudge might make it into a novel—but the best writers avoid creating books that feel one-sided.

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February 13, 2026

Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Volodymyr Zelensky

A conversation with the Ukrainian president about where peace talks go from here

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February 13, 2026

Is AI Ruining Music?

What we can learn from one band’s fight to protect its creative core

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February 13, 2026

The Blind Spot at the Top of the World

Slashing Arctic climate science will limit how clearly the U.S. can understand the region.

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February 13, 2026

Matt Lauer’s Accuser Complicates Her Story

Brooke Nevils’s memoir is also a reckoning with many misconceptions about #MeToo narratives.

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February 13, 2026

Most People Don’t Have a ‘Type’

Many daters have a list of traits they’re looking for in a partner—but can be perfectly happy with someone who has few of them.

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February 13, 2026

Photos of the Week: Plum Blossoms, Iron Fireworks, Carnival Queen

A stranded fuel barge in Puerto Rico, a traditional opera ball in Austria, scenes from Super Bowl 60, images from the Winter Olympics, and m...

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February 13, 2026

Putin Will Miss Pax Americana

The Russian leader has gotten the world he wished for—and it’s threatening to crush him.

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February 13, 2026

First Jobs Matter More Than We Think

They could help us solve society’s biggest problems.

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February 13, 2026

How Not to Understand Slavery

Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

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February 13, 2026

Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake

The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back t...

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February 13, 2026

Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly

The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.

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February 13, 2026

What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval!

Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?

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February 12, 2026

The ‘You Can’t Fire Me—I Quit’ Presidency

Trump has a pattern of taking radical steps to deal with what he says are serious problems—and then walking away once he encounters pushback...

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February 12, 2026

The Rise of the ‘Slave Power’ Conspiracy

By the mid–19th century, sycophants had replaced statesmen to do the bidding of the slaveholding oligarchy.

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February 12, 2026

Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Disqualified for a 'Helmet of Remembrance'

A Ukrainian Olympic athlete displays the memorial helmet that resulted in his ban.

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February 12, 2026

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles

When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

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February 12, 2026

Zelensky Makes His Pitch to Trump

Ukraine’s president calls on his most powerful ally not to squander the chance to make peace. ​​​

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February 12, 2026

James Van Der Beek’s Greatest Trick

In a short-lived sitcom, he gamely mocked his role in “Dawson’s Creek”—and found freedom.

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February 12, 2026

Youth Gender Medicine Is Indeed Up for Debate

American doctors are no longer united on the wisdom of medicalizing gender dysphoria in minors.

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February 12, 2026

Trump’s Bridge to Nowhere

The president’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else.

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February 12, 2026

What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education?

Its role as the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research has granted the foundation—and its president—enormous influence over Amer...

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February 12, 2026

Why the U.S. Hasn’t Yet Struck Iran

Diplomacy meets The Art of the Deal.

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February 12, 2026

Iran Wants Him Arrested. He’s Going Back Anyway.

After Jafar Panahi is done promoting his Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, he plans to return to his home country—despite the t...