National Institutes of Health

March 31, 2026

Health

MAHA Has Been Given an Impossible Task

Tom Bartlett

March 30, 2026

Ideas

The Republicans Made Peace With Science

Alexander Furnas and Dashun Wang

February 17, 2026

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Humor

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

Alexandra Petri

February 14, 2026

Culture

The Sciencewashing of Everyday Life

Ellen Cushing

January 22, 2026

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Science

The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science

Katherine J. Wu

December 30, 2025

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Health

The Most Feared Person at the NIH Is a Vaccine Researcher Plucked From Obscurity

Katherine J. Wu

December 17, 2025

Health

RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading

Katherine J. Wu

November 19, 2025

Science

Trump’s Animal-Research Plan Has a Missing Step

Melanie D.G. Kaplan

November 13, 2025

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Health

RFK Jr. Is Neglecting a Legitimate Autism Concern

Zoë Schlanger

September 16, 2025

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Health

The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing

Katherine J. Wu

September 15, 2025

Health

The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH

Katherine J. Wu

August 19, 2025

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Politics

Trump’s Unforgivable Sin

Peter Wehner and Robert P. Beschel Jr.

August 10, 2025

Politics

So Much for the ‘Best Health-Care System in the World’

Jonathan Chait

August 8, 2025

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Health

How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?

Katherine J. Wu

August 6, 2025

Health

Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out

Charley Locke

June 13, 2025

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Health

An Uproar at the NIH

Katherine J. Wu

June 9, 2025

A diptych of the NIH in gray scale and Jay Bhattacharya washed red

Health

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

Katherine J. Wu

May 6, 2025

Health

‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’

Katherine J. Wu

April 24, 2025

Politics

Federal Workers Are Facing a New Reality

Elaine Godfrey

April 16, 2025

Technology

A Disaster for American Innovation

Matteo Wong

April 11, 2025

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Health

The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet

Katherine J. Wu

March 27, 2025

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Ideas

The DEI Catch-22

Rose Horowitch

March 19, 2025

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Ideas

The Political Fight of the Century

Derek Thompson

March 18, 2025

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Health

The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’

Katherine J. Wu

March 14, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Seven Stories About Buzzy New Movies

Stephanie Bai

March 2, 2025

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Health

RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles

Benjamin Mazer

February 27, 2025

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Health

Inside the Collapse at the NIH

Katherine J. Wu

February 27, 2025

Health

The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials

Katherine J. Wu

February 19, 2025

Ideas

DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms

David Deming

February 11, 2025

Health

A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities

Ian Bogost

February 10, 2025

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Science

The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started

Ian Bogost

January 24, 2025

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Being Human

Doctors Thought They Knew What a Genetic Disease Is. They Were Wrong.

Jason Liebowitz

January 2, 2025

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The Conversation

Letter: The NIH Has Responded Forcefully to COVID-19

July 5, 2022

Ideas

The Missing Part of America’s Pandemic Response

Cary P. Gross and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

June 5, 2022

Ideas

America Needs a New Scientific Revolution

Derek Thompson

November 5, 2021

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Sections

The Print Edition

HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending

MAHA Has Been Given an Impossible Task

The Republicans Made Peace With Science

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

The Sciencewashing of Everyday Life

The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science

The Most Feared Person at the NIH Is a Vaccine Researcher Plucked From Obscurity

RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading

Trump’s Animal-Research Plan Has a Missing Step

RFK Jr. Is Neglecting a Legitimate Autism Concern

The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing

The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH

Trump’s Unforgivable Sin

So Much for the ‘Best Health-Care System in the World’

How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?

Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out

An Uproar at the NIH

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’

Federal Workers Are Facing a New Reality

A Disaster for American Innovation

The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet

The DEI Catch-22

The Political Fight of the Century

The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’

Seven Stories About Buzzy New Movies

RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles

Inside the Collapse at the NIH

The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials

DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms

A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities

The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started

Doctors Thought They Knew What a Genetic Disease Is. They Were Wrong.

Letter: The NIH Has Responded Forcefully to COVID-19

The Missing Part of America’s Pandemic Response

America Needs a New Scientific Revolution