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Elon Musk

September 22, 2025

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Technology

Grok’s Responses Are Only Getting More Bizarre

Matteo Wong

September 16, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Why Tesla Thinks Elon Musk Needs More Money

Will Gottsegen

September 15, 2025

Technology

AI Is Grown, Not Built

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares

September 15, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

The Awful Ubiquity of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video

Will Gottsegen

September 11, 2025

Technology

Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

Patrick George

September 5, 2025

Science

Yes, a Moon Base

Ross Andersen

August 10, 2025

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Science

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

Franklin Foer

September 2025 Issue

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Technology

Elon Musk Updated Grok. Guess What It Said?

Matteo Wong

July 11, 2025

Ideas

Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

July 11, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

H. Elon Perot

Tom Nichols

July 9, 2025

Technology

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

Charlie Warzel and Matteo Wong

July 8, 2025

Ideas

A Real Cancer in Washington

Annie Lowrey

June 29, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Five Sunday Reads

Stephanie Bai

June 29, 2025

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Newsletters

How Sleeping Less Became an American Value

Isabel Fattal

June 26, 2025

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Technology

Elon Musk Is Playing God

Charlie Warzel and Hana Kiros

June 24, 2025

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Economy

The Republican Megabill’s Horrible Compromise

Jonathan Chait

June 23, 2025

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Books

A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space

Robert Rubsam

June 21, 2025

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Technology

The Tesla Brain Drain

Patrick George

June 18, 2025

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Humor

So, What Did I Miss?

Alexandra Petri

June 13, 2025

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Ideas

This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

Anne Applebaum

June 11, 2025

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Washington Week With The Atlantic

Trump’s Amplifier Administration

The Editors

June 7, 2025

Thomas Friedman on Washington Week With The Atlantic

Politics

Inside the Trump-Musk Breakup

Jonathan Lemire, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, and Russell Berman

June 6, 2025

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Technology

The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs

Charlie Warzel

June 5, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Elon Musk Goes Nuclear

David A. Graham

June 5, 2025

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Politics

When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways

Missy Ryan and Ashley Parker

June 5, 2025

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Ideas

No One Can Offer Any Hope

George Packer

June 4, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The TACO Presidency

David A. Graham

May 30, 2025

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Technology

OpenAI Can Stop Pretending

Matteo Wong

May 30, 2025

Books

A Reality Check for Tech Oligarchs

John Kaag

May 28, 2025

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Politics

The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk

Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker

May 21, 2025

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Politics

The Visionary of Trump 2.0

McKay Coppins

May 16, 2025

Technology

The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’

Ali Breland and Matteo Wong

May 15, 2025

Politics

The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts

Jessica Riedl

May 8, 2025

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Politics

Trump’s Inevitable Betrayal of His Supporters

Yair Rosenberg

May 8, 2025

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Ideas

The Real Motive Behind the Real ID–Deadline Charade

Juliette Kayyem

May 7, 2025

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Sections

The Print Edition

Elon Musk’s Utterly Mundane Vision of Dining

Grok’s Responses Are Only Getting More Bizarre

Why Tesla Thinks Elon Musk Needs More Money

AI Is Grown, Not Built

The Awful Ubiquity of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video

Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

Yes, a Moon Base

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

Elon Musk Updated Grok. Guess What It Said?

Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

H. Elon Perot

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

A Real Cancer in Washington

Five Sunday Reads

How Sleeping Less Became an American Value

Elon Musk Is Playing God

The Republican Megabill’s Horrible Compromise

A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space

The Tesla Brain Drain

So, What Did I Miss?

This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

Trump’s Amplifier Administration

Inside the Trump-Musk Breakup

The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs

Elon Musk Goes Nuclear

When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways

No One Can Offer Any Hope

The TACO Presidency

OpenAI Can Stop Pretending

A Reality Check for Tech Oligarchs

The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk

The Visionary of Trump 2.0

The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’

The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts

Trump’s Inevitable Betrayal of His Supporters

The Real Motive Behind the Real ID–Deadline Charade