A 2025 Ranking You Won’t Read Anywhere Else
Salmon with Abraham Lincoln and Jesus, plus other hypothetical dinner parties from The Katie Miller Podcast
How About a Little Less Screen Time for the Grown-Ups
It’s not just kids who can’t stop scrolling.
The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days
Each collection speaks to a different seasonal mood, but all are worth slowing down with before the new year.
The Most Memorable Advice of 2025
Meditations on how to nurture and strengthen your relationships in the new year
The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, but Not About Ice
As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.
To Understand Today’s Left, Remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Can the late senator show his party how to win again?
Where Stranger Things Lost Itself
The Netflix drama’s final season settles for “compulsively watchable.” Is that all we get?
Dusty Pillars
Day 25 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Watching Someone Fail Shouldn’t Be So Fun
In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet delivers both cringe and charisma.
Is Victor Wembanyama Too Tall?
Why it’s hard to watch the NBA’s most promising young talent
Netflix vs. Paramount
Whoever wins … we lose?
How to Follow the Right Star
The ancient Christmas story of the Magi contains a message that can guide your modern search for happiness.
So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files
The latest batch includes many new references to Trump—and enough ammunition for Congress to keep pressing.
An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist
A roundup of songs that evoke a new nostalgia
Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?
The Atlantic’s Helen Lewis on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, why comedians are attracted to conspiracy theories, and the rise of the right-wing comedy-podcast industrial complex. Plus: the importance of NATO and David’s reflections on Edith Wharton’s Autres Temps.
Stop Defending Bari Weiss
It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.
A Gravitational Lens
Day 24 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
Why Did We Ever Watch To Catch a Predator?
A new documentary probes the influential Dateline series—and the titillating nature of true crime itself.