The President and the Pope
Panelists joined to discuss Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV for his comments about the war in Iran.
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The Iran War Is Putting Pressure on Europe
Panelists joined to discuss the effects of the conflict on America’s allies, and more.
What Trump’s Address to the Nation Revealed
Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the president’s first national address since the war with Iran began.
Trump’s Mixed Messages About Iran
Panelists joined to discuss the president’s shifting answers to how the conflict could end.
Is Anybody Actually Winning Trump’s Iran War?
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger on the U.S.-Iran cease-fire, Trump’s Hormuz blockade, and China’s reaction to the Iran war. Plus: A seismic election in Hungary, and Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges.
What It Means to Be American
Fareed Zakaria and David Frum on whether they regret becoming American citizens. Plus: how 18 years of economic turmoil ushered in a new populist era, and a discussion of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
Watching War From the Strait of Hormuz
Graeme Wood on what he saw at the Strait of Hormuz and the lockdown of oil in the Persian Gulf. Plus: Trump’s war-information blackout and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense at 250 years old.
The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West
The historian Andrew Roberts on why many right-wing podcasters now believe that the wrong side won the Second World War, and the rise of algorithmically driven pseudo-historians. Plus: Trump is looking for an off-ramp from his war in Iran, and Gore Vidal’s novel Burr.
The Subject of an Oscar-Nominated Documentary Starts a New Life
After five years in an underground hospital, a Syrian doctor is haunted by what she saw.
The Absurd Theatrics of the Border Wall
At the U.S.-Mexico border, eight winning prototypes of Donald Trump’s design contest must withstand a durability test.
In Duterte’s War on Drugs, Where Do All the Bodies Go?
In Manila, a group of young caretakers lives and works in a cemetery that's quickly being filled with victims of extrajudicial killings.
How Keeth Smart Became the Best Fencer in the World
After nearly dying, Smart defied the odds and won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics.
In Rising Seas, a Girl Learns to Swim
A rite of passage is complicated by the specter of climate change in coastal Colombia.
A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders Life and Death: 'What Is the Point?'
Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him.
The Future of Food Is Zero Waste
A London restaurant embodies the virtues of sustainability with a food system that generates zero waste.
How Cities Became Childless
Welcome to the future of urban living, where young people have to make a choice: money or babies?
No Animal Should Have to Die Alone
A woman cares for terminally ill animals at her hospice in Scotland.
An Unexpected Gold Rush in Small-Town Maine
Increasing demand for baby eels has created a black market—and a tragedy of the commons.