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March 29, 2026

Don’t Get Sucked Into the War on Lice

It hasn’t been going well.

The Atlantic

March 29, 2026

How to Know Yourself

The ability to understand, recognize, and label your own emotions is a necessary part of living a fulfilling life.

The Atlantic

March 29, 2026

Photos From the Third Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest

More than 3,000 marches and rallies took place yesterday in cities and towns across America during the third “No Kings” event, where million...

The Atlantic

March 29, 2026

The Kurdish Ground Force Preparing to Fight in Iran

The Peshmerga on the Iraq-Iran border are eager to join the American campaign. They’re also deeply uneasy about where it might lead.

The Atlantic

March 29, 2026

Iran Has Broken the Trump Coalition

How many times can a coalition crack before it shatters?

The Atlantic

March 29, 2026

The Man Who Thought He Could Keep AI Safe

Demis Hassabis has devoted his life to advancing a technology he thinks could destroy the world.

The Atlantic

March 28, 2026

Bill Maher Broke Trump’s Spell at the Kennedy Center

For the past year, Donald Trump has made the Kennedy Center all about him. Last night, the comedian revealed the limits of that approach.

The Atlantic

March 28, 2026

Trump’s Mixed Messages About Iran

Panelists joined to discuss the president’s shifting answers to how the conflict could end.

The Atlantic

March 28, 2026

Mutually Assured Energy Destruction

Wrecking oil infrastructure is easy; rebuilding it is hard.

The Atlantic

March 28, 2026

How to Wait Without Getting Bored

What if we thought about waiting in line as a sudden opening of time?

The Atlantic

March 28, 2026

The Surprising Prosperity of Gen Z

For some, anxiety about money has led to lots and lots of saving.

The Atlantic

March 28, 2026

Food Safety in America Just Hit a New Low

The FDA has linked an E. coli outbreak to raw-cheddar cheese. The company that sells it refuses to agree to a recall.

The Atlantic

March 28, 2026

How Nick Fuentes Is Charming the Left

Viral clips of the far-right white supremacist make him palatable to progressives.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

Expensive Plane Tickets Are a Preview

Airfare is way up. It’s a signal of what could come next.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

Atlantic Trivia, March 27, 2026: Chinese Science

What ninth-century Chinese invention was at first employed primarily for fireworks rather than in the capacity that would change the world c...

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

Let a Book Annoy You

Let a Book Annoy You

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

No, Netanyahu Is Not Dead

But a shocking number of people, against all evidence to the contrary, insist that he is.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later?

An early Twitter exec reckons with the monster he helped create.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

A Day in Class With Plato, the Melania Trump–Mandated AI Humanoid Instructor

Envision a future of humanoid instruction, Melania told us, and … we did.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

In Hungary, the First Post-Reality Political Campaign

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

The People Who Think Introspection Is Dumb

For some of America’s tech oligarchs, looking inward seems to be a waste of time better spent moving fast and breaking things.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

The U.S. and Cuba Have Both Abandoned Their Principles

The two countries are no longer clashing primarily over ideology.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

Photos of the Week: Fallas Festival, Butterfly Gathering, Beach Violin

Traditional bull racing in Indonesia, puppies rescued from flooding in Hawaii, humanoid robots in China, and much more

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

Kristi Noem is Gone. Now Mass Deportations Can Really Begin.

DHS has a new leader and a big pot of money to deliver on Trump’s campaign promise.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

The Shocking Speed of China’s Scientific Rise

When will Chinese research pull ahead of ours?

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

The Tension That Defines Modern Life

Most people need a smartphone. But many want to use it less.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

Homophobia Is Back. It’s Different Now.

Americans are burned-out, frustrated, and hunting for scapegoats.

The Atlantic

March 27, 2026

Who Needs Tanks In the Age of Drones?

Ukrainian drones have made artillery and armored vehicles look obsolete. Why is the world still buying them?

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

The Tacit Politics of Pixar’s Latest Hit, ‘Hoppers’

Hoppers offers a surprisingly radical message for a story about talking animals.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

Shockingly, ICE Hasn't Fixed the Airport Crisis Yet

Perhaps because they're not trained to expedite the long lines that are making travel so difficult

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

Critics Have a New Way to Describe the Trump Administration

Calling his presidency a “regime” has some benefits, but it underestimates the resilience of the 250-year-old republic.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis

“There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

The Reason Trump May Pull Back From the Brink

The president is discovering the high stakes of an escalation that damages energy facilities.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

The Countdown to a Ground War

The president wants to avoid a long, messy entanglement, but all of the ground options promise to be just that.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

Atlantic Trivia, March 26, 2026: AI Code, Airport Code

What painter who shares his first name with a popular AI chatbot is known for his monumental depictions of water lilies?

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

How to Believe in God

Scientific evidence for faith misunderstands faith.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

NATO’s Terrible Position

Trump wants help from allies, but they don’t want to be pulled into a war.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

A Life of Close Observation

Revisiting Tracy Kidder’s work for The Atlantic

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

A Prison That Offers a Strange Kind of Freedom

In Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things, a group of captive women discover who they might become beyond the control of men.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

ICE Might Be Violating America’s Other Bill of Rights

To keep rogue agents in check, we need to look beyond the Constitution.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

The Worst Airport in America

Traveling by plane anywhere is bad right now, but in some places, it’s worse.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

E-Verify Is No Silver Bullet

Focusing enforcement on employers might be the easiest choice in immigration policy—just as soon as you make all of the hard ones.

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

Protecting a Hero Too Long

The pressure to shield men who hurt women

The Atlantic

March 26, 2026

Meet the New ICE

Same as the old ICE?

The Atlantic

March 25, 2026

OpenAI’s Identity Crisis

The company’s sudden decision to pull the plug on Sora is a sign of deeper trouble.

The Atlantic

March 25, 2026

RFK Jr. Is Losing His Grip on the CDC

The Trump administration seems to be putting MAHA on notice.

The Atlantic

March 25, 2026

Trump Is Asking to Be Bailed Out Again

The president’s eagerness to act keeps getting him into difficult spots—which he then demands that legislators and the public help him escap...

The Atlantic

March 25, 2026

Atlantic Trivia, March 25, 2026: Charles Dickens

What nighttime disorder was previously called “Pickwickian syndrome,” after an overweight, underslept Charles Dickens character?

The Atlantic

March 25, 2026

Claude Takes On Monet

Why is Anthropic sponsoring an exhibition about Monet?

The Atlantic

March 25, 2026

A Landmark Verdict Against Meta and Google

Jurors found the companies liable for building apps that inflicted mental-health problems on a teenager, and similar lawsuits are on the hor...