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April 21, 2026
Another Trump Cabinet Member Is Out
Lori Chavez-DeRemer was supposed to take the GOP in a more worker-friendly direction. Instead she is departing amid scandal.
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April 21, 2026
The Rise of the House Manager
More families who can afford it are hiring a “chief of staff for the home.”
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April 21, 2026
Elon Musk Is Taking the X Playbook to Starlink
The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.
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April 21, 2026
Big Sky Democrats Battle Over ‘Poison’ Brand
Montana Democrats thought they found a novel way to win control of the U.S. Senate—until the party faithful started fighting back.
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April 21, 2026
The Rise of CliffsNotes Cinema
Hollywood is missing the point of the classics, again and again.
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April 21, 2026
Atlantic Trivia, April 21, 2026: Deadly Sins
What sum results from adding together the numbers of deadly sins, bodily humors, and signs of the zodiac?
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April 21, 2026
Why Justin Bieber Played YouTube Onstage for Thousands of People
The pop star transformed the normal act of browsing your laptop into something interesting—and unsettling.
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April 21, 2026
Andrew Durbin's biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
A new biography brings the the late photographer’s relationship with the artist Paul Thek to vivid life.
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April 21, 2026
An Extra-Embarrassing White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Why is Donald Trump breaking bread with the “enemy of the people”?
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April 21, 2026
All the World Has Stage Fright
What happens when performance anxiety becomes a way of life
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April 21, 2026
Losing My Daughter, and Myself
The person I was died at the exact moment my child did.
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April 21, 2026
Robert Rauschenberg’s Penchant for Invention and Spectacle
In 2007, he and Merce Cunningham put a new twist on a famous 1981 sculpture.
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April 21, 2026
Have Accommodations Become an Unfair Advantage in Higher Education?
Readers respond to our January 2026 issue.
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April 20, 2026
The Aides Keeping the President in the Dark
Donald Trump’s advisers are treating him like he can’t handle the reality of the war in Iran. They might be right—but that fact is a danger...
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April 20, 2026
The End of the Argument ad Orbánum
America is more resilient than the pessimists think.
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April 20, 2026
Fare Gate Society
Some cities are realizing that the only way to provide high-quality public services is through designs that keep disorder out.
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April 20, 2026
The ‘Weaponization Working Group’ Makes Its First Move
A new DOJ report purports to show bias under the Biden administration—and fails spectacularly.
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April 20, 2026
Why Americans Hate a Cheater
Monogamy is one of the last bipartisan ideals—even if people struggle to live up to it.
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April 20, 2026
Atlantic Trivia for April 20, 2026: Free Bread
What restaurant introduced its now-famous complimentary offering in 1992 under the straightforward name Hot Cheese Garlic Bread?
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April 20, 2026
Who Owns ‘Let Them’?
Years before Mel Robbins published her best-selling self-help book, a struggling writer posted a poem with a similar message.
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April 20, 2026
What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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April 19, 2026
Photos: Out Among the Cherry Blossoms
Recent images of people enjoying themselves on warm spring days, among groves of flowering cherry-blossom trees in cities and parks across t...
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April 19, 2026
A 13,000-Mile Mission for One Beautiful Loaf
A conversation with Caity Weaver about a completely scientific, totally exhaustive search for America’s best free bread.
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April 19, 2026
Asking the Wrong Questions About Hasan Piker
The problem isn’t whether to engage with influencers, but how to.
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April 19, 2026
The California Governor’s Race Is a Debacle
The capital of Blue America can’t find a Democrat to lead it.
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April 18, 2026
The President and the Pope
Panelists joined to discuss Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV for his comments about the war in Iran.
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April 18, 2026
How to Revive the Art of Hanging Out
Modern life makes it harder to seek out places to just be, but it’s not impossible.
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April 18, 2026
A Beguiling Film About the Downsides of Pop Stardom
Mother Mary offers a spooky spin on what it takes to stay famous.
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April 18, 2026
Can Turning Off Your Phone Bring You Closer to God?
Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive following by preaching about the ills of technology.
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April 18, 2026
The Film From 1969 That Explains Contemporary America
The Sorrow and the Pity has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root.
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April 18, 2026
Ukraine Has Written Off the United States
Zelensky has stopped pretending that Trump might be an ally.
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April 17, 2026
Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job
The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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April 17, 2026
The Donald J. Trump Guide to Classic Fairy Tales
Has the president failed to learn the lessons of classic cautionary fables—or does he just understand them in his own novel ways?
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April 17, 2026
Atlantic Trivia, April 17, 2026: First Ladies
Whereas the bishop of Rome—a.k.a. the pope—leads the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy’s top authority is the patriarch of what city? (The...
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April 17, 2026
Iran Had a Doomsday Weapon All Along
Control of a vital waterway gives Tehran the deterrence power it’s always wanted.
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April 17, 2026
One of These Trump Threats Is Not Like the Others
Trump has developed a reputation for backing down from his most over-the-top threats, but dismissing his words is a mistake.
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April 17, 2026
Breaking Free From Alex Jones
A former Infowars employee on radicalization, lies, and getting out
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April 17, 2026
The Books Briefing: The First Draft of Cultural History
Lena Dunham’s new memoir is a fascinating primary source of Hollywood in the 2010s.
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April 17, 2026
'The Pitt' Brings the Crisis Home
What the hit show’s approach to Dr. Robby reveals
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April 17, 2026
Photos of the Week: Glacier Performance, Gorilla Birthday, Moon Return
Cherry blossoms in bloom in Japan, preparations for a humanoid-robot half marathon in China, a boisterous water festival in Thailand, a scen...
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April 16, 2026
The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right?
Its turn to AI could be an escape hatch for a company with nothing to lose.
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April 16, 2026
RFK Jr.’s New Normal
As Trump nominates a new, uncontroversial CDC director, a more restrained version of the health secretary is appearing.
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April 16, 2026
Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party
Their position has become untenable. But liberal Zionists can adapt.
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April 16, 2026
Atlantic Trivia, April 16, 2026: Name the Pol, Then the Actor
In her second memoir, Lena Dunham describes what actor as “all ears and nose, gangly and pigeon-toed”?
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April 16, 2026
The Tyranny of AI Everywhere
Sneakers? Why stop there?
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April 16, 2026
Trump Voters Have Had Enough
A shocking number of the president’s supporters have turned against him.
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April 16, 2026
My Front-Row Seat to the Kennedy Center Implosion
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public k...
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April 16, 2026
The Clubs in Hungary That Helped Lead to Orbán's Defeat
Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat was the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits.
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April 16, 2026
The DNA Fix for Aging
Everyone’s DNA keeps mutating. Could correcting those errors lead to longevity?
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April 16, 2026