Twenty years since my book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” was published, America’s food system is still a mess—but there are reasons for optimism.
People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.
Democrats are now favored to take back the Senate, a prospect that seemed far-fetched a year ago.
The Republican spending strategy is about turnout, not persuasion.
Proponents of the peptide say it can treat gingivitis, runner’s knee, even dementia.
After decades of avoiding the subject, Democratic candidates are speaking in explicitly moral terms.
The dramatic warnings of doom have fed an atmosphere of despair. But there are more constructive responses.
You’re bound to come across the “Dark Triad” type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite.
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.
“There is a prejudice against cats because dogs hate them. We defer overmuch to the opinion of the dog because he is ‘faithful.’”
President Trump and his allies are ending the campaign with naked but nonsensical appeals to anti-Muslim bigotry.
The internet has always been more physical—and fragile—than it seems.
AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.
Hunger. Sickness. Blackouts. Abandoned streets. The withering of the state is shocking to behold.
Tomorrow Israelis will vote, many trembling for the future of their country, no matter which candidate they prefer.
Fifty years ago, Stevie Wonder released “Songs in the Key of Life.” Its message still feels urgent.
Not one single court has approved of the Department of Justice’s plans to obtain state voter rolls.
Many people don’t know very much about their older relatives. But if we don’t ask, we risk never knowing our own history.
The greatest obstacle to widespread acceptance of the Trump Accounts program may be embedded in its very name.
Donald Trump won big in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley in 2024—but now Latino voters are turning on him.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes that RSV originated in a government science experiment.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America w...
A new group is targeting tech companies and the government with the climate movement’s playbook.
To make sense of my deepest experiences, I needed a new way of talking about the soul.
A movie’s music choices can be just as memorable as the film itself.
Chronicling the disappearance of the old ways in a village where I was raised
People throughout history have claimed to witness impossible occurrences. Historian Carlos Eire asks: What if they’re telling the truth?
If mathematicians have no reason to pursue the mysteries of their field, the rest of us will stumble into a less certain world.
The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.
My field is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature. Is it for the machines now?
Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
The president said the “American dream is back.” Rural Arizonans don’t think so.
Long careers spent covering politicians have taught David Brooks and Jeffrey Goldberg the importance of putting politics in its place.
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss how Donald Trump’s dismissal of Russian aggression against Ukraine has prompted bipartisan backlash.
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