What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
‘It’s Very Controversial, but I Love Nick Fuentes’
The white-supremacist influencer cast a shadow over Turning Point USA’s annual gathering.
Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
The DOJ Is Losing Public Trust
The department is unlikely to get the benefit of the doubt for its handling of the recent Epstein-files release.
The Huge Problem Waymo Didn’t See Coming
A blackout in San Francisco revealed a new way for robotaxis to go wrong.
Only Timothée Chalamet Could Get Away With This
To promote his new movie, the actor has thrown all caution to the wind.
The Atlantic’s Favorite Images of the Year
Every single story The Atlantic publishes includes art—documentary photography, conceptual illustrations, 3-D animation, handmade collages, paintings, and more—that provides readers with another lens through which they can understand and experience a given subject or idea. The Atlantic’s art department created and commissioned thousands of images in 2025; here is a collection of some of our favorites. We hope they make you think.
Bari Weiss’s Audience of One
Trump’s plan to corrupt the media is starting to work.
The Heart of a Tarantula
Day 22 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
The Trump Administration’s Guide to Christmas Giving
A piece of East Wing Rubble? An MRI for no reason? The options are endless!
Everything We Know About Rape Is Wrong
Girls Play Dead is a transformative analysis of what sexual assault does to women.
The Three-Step Guide to Fixing Affordability
First, stop making things worse.
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump
Media conglomerates want the president’s permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake.
AI Is Democratizing Music. Unfortunately.
The emerging technology is warping the record industry in all sorts of strange—and foreboding—ways.
There Were Two Charlie Kirks
A new book by the right-wing activist, who was murdered in September, has moments of seriousness, beauty, and cross-partisan appeal.
Trump Discovers Maduro’s Achilles’ Heel
After months of strikes, tankers are a new, and smarter, target.
The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump
The president’s appetite for plastering his name on every available surface appears insatiable.
Bowen Yang Broke Free on Saturday Night Live
The performer, whose run on the show ended last night, understood that being earnest could be very funny.
Theft
A poem
Warped Space
Day 21 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
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