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Who Wants to Work for ICE? They Do.

August 28, 2025

Photograph of an audience watching video displays at ICE recruiting event in Arlington, Texas

NOAA Has Been Trying to Predict How Bad Floods Could Get

August 28, 2025

broken binoculars look at storm clouds

Bobby Hill’s Very Millennial Sorta-Adulthood

August 22, 2025

Bobby Hill from “King of the Hill,” at a variety of ages

The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby

August 22, 2025

The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books

Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

August 20, 2025

Gif of a stack of colored books that slowly disappear until none remain

King of the Hill Now Looks Like a Fantasy

August 13, 2025

A still of the Hill family from an episode of the "King of the Hill" reboot.

The Texas GOP’s Disturbing Request for the FBI

Paul Rosenzweig

August 9, 2025

Collage of Senator John Cornyn, the Department of Justice seal, a partial outline of Texas, and a lone star

How the Texas Standoff Will (Probably) End

August 8, 2025

Photo of the Texas state capitol.

Twenty Years After the Storm

September 2025 Issue

photo of debris-strewn front lawn with huge tree and car with crumpled hood angled on sidewalk next to it

The Atlantic Daily

A Political Game Could Redefine Voting in America

David A. Graham

August 7, 2025

U.S. Congressional Districts Map

How Democrats Tied Their Own Hands on Redistricting

August 6, 2025

An image of a blue map of the United States with blue caution tape in front of it.

The Atlantic Daily

Republicans Want to Redraw America’s Political Map

July 30, 2025

Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, uses a district map to discuss concerns over the GOP’s proposed redistricting of the state.

A Democrat for the Trump Era

July 27, 2025

Jasmine Crockett stands in front of a gray backdrop.

The Psychological Secret to Longevity

Arthur C. Brooks

July 24, 2025

An illustration of a woman floating above a cascade of numbers

No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive

Gisela Salim-Peyer

July 23, 2025

Picture of Keider Alexander Flores inside his home in Caracas, Venezuela

Democracy Upside Down

July 22, 2025

An illustration of the U.S. map, with all of the states turning from grey to red one at a time.

The States Are Going Full RFK Jr.

Nicholas Florko

July 16, 2025

An illustration of RFK Jr. and a map of Texas and Louisiana

The Atlantic Daily

Disaster at FEMA

David A. Graham

July 15, 2025

A volunteer looks out over the Guadalupe River while helping clean a resident's home in Hunt, Texas.

The Trump Administration Is Violating the First Rule of Disasters

July 15, 2025

american flag by the river in Kerr County

We Should, in Fact, Politicize the Tragedy

July 14, 2025

Photo illustration of several hands with fingers pointing

Home of the Brave

July 12, 2025

A black and white photo of girls playing outdoors in front of a light pink background

What It Means to Be a Mystic Girl

July 11, 2025

A vintage black-and-white photo of girls in a cabin at Camp Mystic, next to an image of a cabin at Camp Mystic, ruined by flood damage.

An Inhospitable Land

Elizabeth Bruenig

July 10, 2025

Photo of the flood in Texas

The Atlantic Daily

The Texas-Flood Blame Game Is a Distraction

July 8, 2025

Trees collapsed on a hillside in the aftermath of the central Texas floods

Photos: Deadly Flooding in Texas

July 7, 2025

Search-and-rescue workers dig through debris alongside a recently flooded riverbed.

The Most Perverse Part of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

July 3, 2025

Illustration of a line graph in the shape of a lightning bolt

The Atlantic Daily

The Trend Disrupting Conventional Housing Wisdom

July 2, 2025

Single-family homes in a residential neighborhood in San Marcos, Texas

The Whole Country Is Starting to Look Like California

June 30, 2025

An illustration of the state of Texas, wrapped in red tape.

When My Teacher Made Me Pray

Michael Sokolove

June 5, 2025

An image of a young boy praying

The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming

May 27, 2025

A photo zoomed in on the face of a brown cow in the center of a blurry herd

American Realignment

Patrick Ruffini

May 25, 2025

A voter walks past signs at a voting location, wearing a jacket that says, "Jesus saved my life"

Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Judiciary Pushback Against Trump’s Agenda

May 3, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia

Marion Renault and Cheney Orr

April 29, 2025

A photograph of rural Starr County, Texas, seen from Farm to Market Road 490

Trump’s Cosplay Cabinet

April 26, 2025

A paper cutout of a suited man at a podium, whose face is cut out of the paper, on a light blue background

The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

April 24, 2025

An illustration that includes photos of Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, alongside a photo of the steps of the Supreme Court.

Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?

April 16, 2025

Black-and-white photo of a child crossing their eyes, overlaid with colorful childlike doodles of bugs