Zack Snyder, the Director People Love to Hate
How did one of Hollywood’s most successful and influential filmmakers also become one of its most divisive?
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The Death of a Gun-Rights Warrior
Bob Owens was one of the firearms industry’s most prominent, passionate defenders. Then he turned his gun on himself.
The Most Consequential Act of Sabotage in Modern Times
The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline curtailed Europe’s reliance on Russian gas. But who was responsible?
Selling Art to the Rich, Famous, and Inebriated
Behind the scenes during Art Basel Miami Beach—a week-long bacchanal of parties, paintings, and pills held in the name of shopping for art
If Trump Wins
The staff of The Atlantic on the threat a second term poses to American democracy
What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University
Do West Virginia kids of modest means deserve the humanities?
Ammon Bundy Has Disappeared
An anti-government extremist seemed on the verge of another standoff with the law. Then he vanished.
My Father, My Faith, and Donald Trump
Here, in our house of worship, people were taunting me about politics as I tried to mourn.
How Reconstruction Created American Public Education
Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.
The Men Who Started the War
John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?