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July 31, 2025

The Man Who Was Too MAHA for the Trump Administration

Vinay Prasad was supposed to be the guy who kept Big Pharma in check. Now he’s gone.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Hamas Actually Wants a Famine

Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Three Ways to Stop Feeling Like an Impostor

This common syndrome can certainly harm your happiness. Here are three ways to get over it.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

The Big Story: The Happiness Files

Arthur C. Brooks joins Jeffrey Goldberg for a discussion about Brooks’s new book, The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Why ‘South Park’ Struck a Nerve

The show's creators once said they had nothing more to say about Donald Trump. What changed their minds?

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Potatoes Evolved From … Tomatoes?

Dipping fries into ketchup just got a little more mind-bending.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Scenes From the 2025 World Aquatics Championships

More than 2,500 athletes from more than 200 nations traveled to Singapore over the past few weeks to compete in 77 events across six differe...

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check

Congress has appropriated billions with few strings attached, creating a likely windfall for well-connected firms.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Why Trump Broke With Bibi Over the Gaza Famine

The president wants the war to end and thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is standing in his way.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

‘I Need This to Be a Homicide’

Prosecutors who want to look tough on crime may be tempted to treat the death penalty as a political tool.

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

How Scientific Empires End

And what it means for America

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Can San Francisco Be Saved?

Introducing No Easy Fix, a new three-part miniseries from Radio Atlantic, about the widespread addiction and homelessness that threaten the...

The Atlantic

July 31, 2025

Virginia Giuffre’s Family Wants to Know What Trump Knows

The siblings of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers were shocked that the president referred to her as “stolen.”

The Atlantic

July 30, 2025

Republicans Want to Redraw America’s Political Map

What happens in Texas probably won’t stay there.

The Atlantic

July 30, 2025

Why Is Watching Stressed-Out People So Calming?

TV, of late, is full of shows channeling the pressures audiences may be feeling in real life.

The Atlantic

July 30, 2025

First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage.

The app was meant to make dating safer for women. Data breaches exposing its users show why it was so popular in the first place.

The Atlantic

July 30, 2025

Why We Should Care About Jerome Powell’s Job Security

Trump wants to get rid of the Fed chair—if the markets will let him. We all have to hope he won’t gamble on that.

The Atlantic

July 30, 2025

What the George Floyd Summer Wrought

Five years later, America is still haunted by the 2020 protests.

The Atlantic

July 30, 2025

The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment

Emil Bove has demonstrated that total sycophancy to the president can be a fantastic career move.

The Atlantic

July 30, 2025

The Internet Loves Sydney Sweeney

That’s not necessarily a good thing

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

Are Tax Cuts a Political Loser Now?

For 45 years, both parties believed in the popularity of lower taxes. Trump’s bills test that theory.

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

The Problem With Blaming CTE

The Midtown Manhattan shooter speculated that the condition was a cause of his mental illness. But drawing that line is premature—and danger...

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

Let’s Ban More Nonexistent Things

The Clear Skies Act seems to “prohibit weather modification.” But why stop there?

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza

Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Pal...

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

The Pentagon Against the Think Tanks

Pete Hegseth finds a new enemy.

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

Dear James: Am I Wrong Not to Dwell on the Past?

More often, I obsess about the future.

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

A Novelist’s Cure for the ‘Loneliness Epidemic’

Eloghosa Osunde’s new book offers a vision of kinship for a world that is steadily growing more disconnected.

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

Are We Witnessing a Marriage Comeback?

The institution has adapted, and is showing new signs of resilience.

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

The Corrupt Bargain Behind Gaza’s Catastrophe

Israel’s far right wants to take over Gaza. Netanyahu wants to stay in power.

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

How Trump Defunded the Higher-Education Police

The U.S. Department of Education used to employ people whose job was to stop waste, fraud, and abuse. Now, almost all of their desks are emp...

The Atlantic

July 29, 2025

A Casualty of Trump’s FBI Purge Speaks Out

“They get a kick out of playing dress-up and acting tough, but they actually have no idea what they’re doing.”

The Atlantic

July 28, 2025

How TV Warps Trump’s Worldview

The president responds more to mass media than to the substance of underlying events.

The Atlantic

July 28, 2025

Trump’s Desperate Move to Quiet the Epstein Scandal

The president tries to distract his followers with revisionist history about the Russia investigation.

The Atlantic

July 28, 2025

The WNBA Has a Good Problem on Its Hands

Women’s basketball players are demanding higher pay. That’s what happens when business is booming.

The Atlantic

July 28, 2025

The Death of Democracy Promotion

Despots and human-rights abusers can rest easy now that America has gotten out of their way.

The Atlantic

July 28, 2025

Homes Still Aren’t Designed for a Body Like Mine

Why is it so hard for disabled people to find safe, accessible places to live?

The Atlantic

July 28, 2025

The Pentagon’s Policy Guy Is All In on China

Elbridge Colby wants the U.S. military to pivot toward Asia, even if it means turning away from Europe and the Middle East.

The Atlantic

July 28, 2025

NASA and the End of American Ambition

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its future to Elon Musk.

The Atlantic

July 27, 2025

Zelensky Went Soft on Corruption Because the U.S. Did

Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.

The Atlantic

July 27, 2025

Preamble to the West

A poem

The Atlantic

July 27, 2025

Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It.

Capitalism needs better advocates.

The Atlantic

July 27, 2025

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight

A love letter to music listings

The Atlantic

July 27, 2025

A Gritty and Genuinely Readable Book

Culture and entertainment musts from Luis Parrales

The Atlantic

July 27, 2025

The Politics of Going Low

Is Jasmine Crockett the fighter that Democrats are looking for?

The Atlantic

July 26, 2025

Trump Is Trying to Deflect Focus From the Epstein Case—Can He?

How a once-fringe conspiracy theory became a spiraling controversy

The Atlantic

July 26, 2025

The Pleasures of Reading Outside

Taking a book outside can be a practice in holding your attention.

The Atlantic

July 26, 2025

Justin Bieber Is Here to Save a Summer of Strangeness

American listeners don’t want to party; they just want a break.

The Atlantic

July 26, 2025

Photos: Building a Medieval Castle in the 21st Century

More than 25 years ago, Michel Guyot, the owner of a French chateau, launched an experimental castle-building project. Workers using tools a...

The Atlantic

July 26, 2025

Climate Change Is Doing a Number on People’s Summertime Blues

Living in the heat is bleak. So is beating it.

The Atlantic

July 26, 2025

A Requiem for Puff Daddy

When I was growing up, the now-disgraced mogul was the most formidable ambassador of Black cool.