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Fathers Don’t Just Protect—They Prepare

Daniel Kehlmann

June 15, 2025

Vintage image of a man cut out, revealing a silhouette of a father and son.

What a Celebration of Freedom Looks Like

Isaac Stanley-Becker

June 14, 2025

Side-by-side photos of European flags in Schengen and an American flag waving underneath helicopters.

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator

Timothy W. Ryback

June 10, 2025

Illustration showing Hitler and Reichstag fire

Photos of the Week: Wienermobile Race, Beehive Therapy, Everest Queue

May 30, 2025

Several young spelling-bee contestants sit on chairs on a stage, with one appearing to be asleep.

The Fraught Relationship Between a Pope and His Home

May 21, 2025

In a crowd of Catholics, one holds up an American flag.

Is the AfD Too Extreme for Democracy?

May 13, 2025

A photo of AfD supporters waving German flags at a rally ahead of the 2024 election.

Why Do Collaborators Do It?

June 2025 Issue

Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks

April 23, 2025

Photograph of Elon Musk

They Dreamed of Hitler

April 23, 2025

Photo-illustration of an image of Hitler being projected over a bed

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

Timothy W. Ryback

April 20, 2025

Hitler speaking at Berliner Sportpalast

Worse Than Signalgate

Timothy W. Ryback

April 11, 2025

Picture of the Zimmermann telegram with a photo of him on top

To Be Happier, Stop Resisting Change

Arthur C. Brooks

April 3, 2025

A large bow with a smiling man standing in for the arrow to be fired

Why American Soldiers Are in Lithuania

March 27, 2025

Lithuanian military police stand near military and other vehicles parked at a training range in Pabrade, north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania on Thursday, March 27, 2025.

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State

What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler

Timothy W. Ryback

March 21, 2025

A black and white photo of Hitler delivering a speech.

No One Wins a Trade War

William J. Bernstein

March 3, 2025

A shipping container, held up by a crane, hanging over the American flag

The Man Who Would Remake Europe

March 2, 2025

An unsmiling, vertical photo of Merz in a gray suit.

‘Herr Hitler, Do You Really Believe Me Capable of Such a Dirty Trick?’

Timothy W. Ryback

February 23, 2025

Three photos of men in Nazi uniforms with their faces cut out, over a red background

MAGA Has Found a New Model

February 22, 2025

Photo of a crowd holding German flags watching a screen with Elon Musk waving

Germany’s Anti-Extremist Firewall Is Collapsing

February 21, 2025

Campaign sign on a pole in a wooded area

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler

Timothy W. Ryback

February 6, 2025

In a black-and-white photo, Nazis salute Hitler

The Modern Voice of War Writing

March 2025 Issue

Long line of gray soldiers in desolate field, behind one somber mustached-soldier's face turning back toward the reader

A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

January 15, 2025

A photo-illustration of a cut-out black-and-white photo of a young woman holding a camera, framed with rectangular 3-D lines in a collage style on a mustard-yellow background.

Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World

January 10, 2025

An image of Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, the head of Germany's far-right AfD party

Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults

January 8, 2025

A photo-illustration of two squares of cardboard with torn edges, the one on the left showing a drawing of a child on it and the one on the write with a drawing of an adult on it.

The Century-Old Book With a Message for This Season

November 8, 2024

Davos, Dorfli and Seehorn, in winter, Grisons, Switzerland

The Magic Mountain Saved My Life

December 2024 Issue

A grid of white lines over squares of two interlaced black-and-white photos, a portrait of Thomas Mann and a picture of a snowy mountain slope

A ‘Crazy’ Idea for Treating Autoimmune Diseases Might Actually Work

November 4, 2024

CAR-T cells on a blue background and a black-and-white photo of a man's face with characteristic lupus rash

War Is Coming. Will Our Next President Be Ready?

Frederick Kempe

October 22, 2024

A black-and-white photomontage of Donald Trump on the left and Kamala Harris on the right.

The Case Against Pessimism

October 20, 2024

Left: Russian troops on the offensive in Poland in 1945. Right: Ukrainian troops patrol at the front line outside in 2022.

Germany’s Zombie Government Is Fueling the Far Right

March 20, 2024

A black-and-white photo of protesters holding up lights outside the Reichstag building

What Happens Where Free Speech Is Unprotected

January 3, 2024

An illustration of a censorious finger superimposed on the figure of a man

Why Vladimir Putin Is Embracing Germany’s Far Right

Liana Fix and Caroline Kapp

October 31, 2023

vladimir putin in front of an AFD protest image

Can Germany Resist the Trump Disease?

October 25, 2023

Silhouette of Wagenknecht speaking

Germany Is No Longer Exceptional

July 22, 2023

A small german flag in a line of tall flagpoles

Radio Atlantic: How Germany Remembers the Holocaust

Clint Smith, Caitlin Dickerson, and A.C. Valdez

March 30, 2023

A worker at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe cleans the memorial grounds.