Kristi Noem’s Audience of One
The DHS secretary is suddenly talking about more than just mass deportations.
Why Europe Is Talking About Nukes
Declining confidence in America means deepening discussions of collective European deterrence.
Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT
What Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “AI revolution” really looks like
Atlantic Trivia on ‘A’ Countries and Architecture
And did you know that Britain used to pay its poet laureates in wine?
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Soaring Through the Dark
All eyes are on the snowboarder Yuto Totsuka as he passes overhead.
Trump Is Suing His Own Government
The president is seeking billions in taxpayer dollars from the IRS. Whether he can do this is perhaps less important than whether he should.
The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’
A cherished grudge might make it into a novel—but the best writers avoid creating books that feel one-sided.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Volodymyr Zelensky
A conversation with the Ukrainian president about where peace talks go from here
Is AI Ruining Music?
What we can learn from one band’s fight to protect its creative core
The Blind Spot at the Top of the World
Slashing Arctic climate science will limit how clearly the U.S. can understand the region.
Matt Lauer’s Accuser Complicates Her Story
Brooke Nevils’s memoir is also a reckoning with many misconceptions about #MeToo narratives.
Most People Don’t Have a ‘Type’
Many daters have a list of traits they’re looking for in a partner—but can be perfectly happy with someone who has few of them.
Photos of the Week: Plum Blossoms, Iron Fireworks, Carnival Queen
A stranded fuel barge in Puerto Rico, a traditional opera ball in Austria, scenes from Super Bowl LX, images from the Winter Olympics, and much more
Putin Didn’t Know How Good He Had It
The Russian leader has gotten the world he wished for—and it’s threatening to crush him.
First Jobs Matter More Than We Think
They could help us solve society’s biggest problems.
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad
Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly
The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.
What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval!
Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?
The ‘You Can’t Fire Me—I Quit’ Presidency
Trump has a pattern of taking radical steps to deal with what he says are serious problems—and then walking away once he encounters pushback.