Trump and Putin share many more goals than just Trump’s election.
Experts worry that Donald Trump could use claims of foreign meddling as a pretext for seizing control.
Anchored by Radio Atlantic co-hosts Adam Harris and Hanna Rosin, with Anne Applebaum, David Frum, Tyler Austin Harper, Mark Leibovich, and Tom Nichols
A new majority might push for impeachment, but could regret it.
Images from Mexico and other Latin American communities in recent years showing preparations for Día de Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, when people pay homage to departed family members and honor dea...
Anne Applebaum’s podcast asks: Can we repair the American institutions Donald Trump is breaking?
If the AI bubble bursts, Donald Trump will control a bailout apparatus with essentially limitless authority.
Whatever happened to the D.C. pizza place that became a target for the internet’s darkest obsessives?
The American tragedy of Edgar Maddison Welch
The U.S. military may be planning a return to war, but the director of planning is out.
The seminal conspiracy theory of the Trump era gets a facelift 10 years later.
James Blair, the president’s top political strategist, planned for a different midterm cycle. Then Trump attacked Iran.
No reliable alternatives exist to Musk’s satellite network, and Ukraine cannot survive for long without it.
The world’s most popular AI tool dodged a consequential question.
Renovation projects. Losers. Cheesecake wars. And a lot of talk about butts.
The Kremlin is staging whitewashed tours of a city it has terrorized.
Scary movies may appear irreverent or profane—but many of them are deeply interested in theological questions.
Sheep herding in central Madrid, Halloween displays in California, scenes from Brazil’s general election, autumn colors in China, and much more
The myriad Trump scandals can obscure the fact that they’re all elements of one massive tale of corruption.
Babies are catching measles in utero for the first time in decades.
The power to impeach secretaries and other executive-branch officers is not well known, but it’s an effective accountability measure.
Some voters who support the proposal might be duped into nullifying it.
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975.
A now infamous PowerPoint presentation exposes a lot about men, women, sex, and alcohol—and about how universities are letting their female students down.
Popular gray-market drugs may soon be easy to get through mainstream channels.
Corporate consolidation and changing tastes have made kids’ holiday hauls boring.
Intimate greetings and overfamiliarity have become hallmarks of campaign-donation emails.
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
Right-wing activists have slowly taken control of a significant part of America’s local election apparatus. The country isn’t prepared for what they might do.
A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.
Over the course of decades, the Supreme Court has legalized behavior that is poisonous to a functioning democracy.
Voters’ worries about inflation and gas prices have seemed to dominate the midterms—but late polling shows another issue vaulting to the top of their list of concerns.
When "The Office" originally aired, its resident fool made for easy comedy. Fifteen years later, it’s hard to watch Dwight without seeing tragedy.
An extraordinary number of apps are flooding the market. Is anyone actually using them?
Protests are challenging India’s Hindu-nationalist government like never before.
The voting results are mostly in, and they are less conclusive than everyone hoped, and than either side is willing to admit.
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