The Atlantic April 11, 2025 The Supreme Court Confronts Trump’s Lawlessness In a unanimous ruling, the justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 Will All of This Really Make America Great? Trump’s go-it-alone approach means voluntarily abdicating the country’s global influence.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 The Problem With Abe Lincoln’s Face The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 When Your Dream Job Is a Lie Hacks paints a deflating picture of what it’s like to reach the top of your field.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 The Tariff Damage That Can’t Be Undone Nothing here has ended well. In fact, it hasn’t even ended.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 The Tariff Damage That Can’t Be Undone Nothing here has ended well. In fact, it hasn’t even ended.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 Trump Didn’t Actually Undo Tariffs You can’t just undo a global economic crisis.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 How to Spot and Stop a Sociopath If you can recognize the special form of gaslighting that is their signature, then forewarned is forearmed.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 Trump Is Showing Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 Trump Says He Is Serious About a Third Term Why do Republicans keep claiming he is?
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 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...
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 Why I Played the Kennedy Center How our band made the decision to perform—and why we probably won’t be welcomed back
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 El Salvador’s Faustian Bargain The president chose security over justice. For how long will his country accept the price?
The Atlantic April 10, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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...
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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 com...
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 Trump Folds—Kind of, Sort of The tariff pause means that Trump is committing himself even more strongly to unpredictability.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 The Tariff Reality Test Trump backed down. His supporters think that was the plan all along.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 The Colors of Spring Images from the past few weeks of people enjoying flowering trees and fields—signs of warmer days to come
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 Trump Is Ruining His Supporters’ Dreams The president won by appealing to strivers, hoping to get rich. His tariffs now threaten that support.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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 wha...
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 9, 2025 How the Latin Mass Split the Catholic Church Pope Francis’s restrictions on the ancient rite may have backfired.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 Bombing the Houthis Won’t Work Trump’s war has no strategy and is likely to backfire.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 Dear James: I Can’t Stop Thinking About Death Is this just a midlife crisis?
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 A Truly Macabre 'White Lotus' Plot What was Tim Ratliff’s arc really about?
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 Elise Stefanik Doesn’t Want Your Pity Inside Trump’s decision to kill the MAGA star’s Cabinet nomination
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 Val Kilmer Always Stole the Show Even in his tiniest roles, the late actor made big impressions.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 8, 2025 The Kids Who Got Bused—And Became Democrats A 1970s experiment in Kentucky reveals a permanent political mark.
The Atlantic April 7, 2025 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...
The Atlantic April 7, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 7, 2025 ‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’ The Trump administration’s arguments in a high-profile immigration case have much broader implications.
The Atlantic April 7, 2025 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.
The Atlantic April 7, 2025 The Late-Night Experiment That Puts Comedy First With his Netflix talk show, John Mulaney injects some disorder into a languid genre.
The Atlantic April 7, 2025 Children Aren’t the Only Ones Vulnerable to Measles Unvaccinated children are becoming unvaccinated adults, who are at risk of dangerous complications.
