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December 24, 2025

So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files

The latest batch includes many new references to Trump—and enough ammunition for Congress to keep pressing.

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist

A roundup that evokes a new nostalgia

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?

The Atlantic’s Helen Lewis on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, why comedians are attracted to conspiracy theories, and the rise of the right-wing...

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

Stop Defending Bari Weiss

It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

The Wrong Kind of Black

Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

Why Did We Ever Watch 'To Catch a Predator'?

A new documentary probes the influential "Dateline" series—and the titillating nature of true crime itself.

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

What I Lost When I Gave Up My Catholicism

Can the Church bring back the formerly faithful?

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

The Writer Fueled by Life’s Randomness

Rabih Alameddine, who won the National Book Award last month, has described his idiosyncratic approach as “childish rebelliousness.”

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December 24, 2025

Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again

The Florida-based judge is likely to once again play a central role in politics in the new year.

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December 24, 2025

God Save the Jingle

Could AI possibly write “I’m Lovin’ It”? Or create the Netflix tudum sound?

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

Friend, Neighbor, Military Target

Trump has presented Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum with a near-impossible dilemma.

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December 24, 2025

The Sound of a 'Charlie Brown' Christmas

Growing up, my holidays were profoundly shaped by the soundtrack to a classic animated special.

The Atlantic

December 24, 2025

The Incredible Shrinking President

The president is no longer dominating his party or the country in the way he once did.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory

It’s beginning to look a lot like … extremely disturbing PDFs.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

Companies’ ‘Wrapped’ Features Keep Getting Weirder

Metro stops, LinkedIn DMs, and other mundane data points are being packaged for the end-of-year trend.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

Do Your Parents Have a Screen-Time Problem?

The phone-based retirement is here.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

America’s Schools Are Less Divided Than You Think

Teachers are generally much more concerned about doing right by their students than they are about angering parents and community members.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy

What the 60 Minutes scandal reveals

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

All of the Power, None of the Fun

Being a GOP member of Congress in the Trump era is pretty miserable.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025

The shows that deserve a spot in listeners’ rotations

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

The Pro-Democracy Case for a National Theater

For 100 years, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre has shown that a publicly funded troupe can deliver cultural riches and hard truths.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

The Next Ozempic Is Already Being Sold Underground

The FDA has yet to approve the best new weight-loss drug. But some people are buying it from shadowy markets online.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

How Romantasy Explains Pluribus

Apple TV’s hit show uses a beleaguered genre to show the importance of critical thinking.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

J. D. Vance Cozies Up to Anti-Semitism

The vice president fails a simple moral test.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

What Bari Weiss Got Right

And what she got wrong.

The Atlantic

December 23, 2025

Charlie Kirk’s Movement Is at War With Itself

Turning Point USA’s annual convention turned into a four-day referendum over Nick Fuentes.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

The Perils of a Politicized Justice Department

The DOJ is unlikely to get the benefit of the doubt for its handling of the recent Epstein-files release.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

That Was a Lot of Frozen Waymos

A blackout in San Francisco revealed a new way for robotaxis to go wrong.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

Only Timothée Chalamet Could Get Away With This

To promote his new movie, the actor has thrown all caution to the wind.

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December 22, 2025

Today’s Atlantic Trivia: All Downhill From Here?

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

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December 22, 2025

The Atlantic’s Favorite Images of the Year

Every single story The Atlantic publishes includes art—documentary photography, conceptual illustrations, 3-D animation, handmade collages,...

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December 22, 2025

The Atlantic’s Favorite Images of the Year

Every single story The Atlantic publishes includes art—documentary photography, conceptual illustrations, 3-D animation, handmade collages,...

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

Trump’s Plan to Corrupt the Media Is Starting to Work

CBS pulled a critical story after the president complained about the network’s coverage.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

Day 22 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Heart of a Tarantula

The 22nd day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a cluster of blue stars blasting a cavity out of a larger billowing cloud o...

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December 22, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Guide to Christmas Giving

A piece of East Wing Rubble? An MRI for no reason? The options are endless!

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December 22, 2025

Everything We Know About Rape Is Wrong

The book “Girls Play Dead,” by Jen Percy, is a “riveting, heartrending analysis of what sexual assault does to women,” Sophie Gilbert writes...

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

Everything We Know About Rape Is Wrong

"Girls Play Dead" is a transformative analysis of what sexual assault does to women.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

The Three-Step Guide to Fixing Affordability

First, stop making things worse.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump

Media conglomerates want the president’s permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

AI Is Testing What Society Wants From Music

The emerging technology is warping the record industry in all sorts of strange—and foreboding—ways.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

The Unifying Potential of Charlie Kirk’s Last Words

A new book by the right-wing activist, who was murdered in September, has moments of seriousness, beauty, and cross-partisan appeal.

The Atlantic

December 22, 2025

Trump’s Venezuelan-Tanker Gamble

The president hopes that seizures on the high seas will help topple Maduro.

The Atlantic

December 21, 2025

The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump

The president’s appetite for plastering his name on every available surface appears insatiable.

The Atlantic

December 21, 2025

What Bowen Yang Brought to ‘Saturday Night Live’

The performer, whose run on the show ended last night, brought a unique comedic vulnerability.

The Atlantic

December 21, 2025

The Honor of the Layward Brothers

A short story

The Atlantic

December 21, 2025

The Return of the Antebellum Constitution

The Supreme Court and the president are undermining the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

The Atlantic

December 21, 2025

Nine Non-Christmas Movies to Watch During Christmas

What to put on instead of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

The Atlantic

December 21, 2025

The Island Without Time

I traveled above the Arctic Circle to find out whether a town really can live free from the clock.

The Atlantic

December 20, 2025

What Is Actually in the Epstein Files?

The heavily redacted trove of documents is shocking, disorienting, and—most important—incomplete.

The Atlantic

December 20, 2025

The Art of Deciding What to Care About

Happiness often comes from figuring out what’s worth your energy.