There’s still a path to lasting peace. But we’ll need a new set of leaders. By Samer Sinijlawi From the December 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap…

The oratorio is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music. By Jan Swafford From the December 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating…

On the street with an elite police unit as it combats a crime wave By Jamie Thompson From the November 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe tod…

It’s the farthest place in the world from land. A lot seems to be going on there. By Cullen Murphy From the November 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world.…

Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and perpetrators live side by side. By Clint Smith From the November 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our w…

In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government. By Adam Serwer From the November 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating…

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States. By Tom Nichols From the November 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to …

Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7. By Judith Shulevitz From the November 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaki…

Ashli Babbitt’s mother and the wife of a notorious January 6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the right. They are also my neighbors. By Hanna Rosin From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insi…

The Founders abhorred a judiciary more loyal to the Crown than to the rule of law. But now the independent system they designed is under threat. By Anne Applebaum From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and ins…

In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients’ lives at risk. By Sarah Zhang From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to …

The podcaster and comedian has turned the city into a haven for manosphere influencers, just-asking-questions tech bros, and other “free thinkers” who happen to all think alike. By Helen Lewis From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, fr…

In 2016, he tried to stop Trump from becoming president. By 2020, he was trying to help Trump overturn the election. Now he could become Trump’s attorney general. By Tim Alberta From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed a…

He said Republican politicians would be easy to break. He was right. By Mark Leibovich From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe to…

Why I swim out into rough seas 80 nights a year to hunt for striped bass. By Tyler Austin Harper From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Su…

Why Kash Patel is exactly the kind of person who would serve in a second Trump administration. By Elaina Plott Calabro From the October 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explora…

My mother was a revolutionary working to save the world from the ravages of capitalism, Xochitl Gonzalez writes. But she cared about saving the world more than she cared about me. By Xochitl Gonzalez. From the September 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning jour…

In HBO’s Industry, Gen Z reveals itself to be just as money-obsessed as the corporate raiders of Wall Street. By Spencer Kornhaber. From the September 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fasc…

The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets. By Ariel Sabar. From the September 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, fr…

The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States. By Caitlin Dickerson. From the September 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to P…

The filmmaker weathered some of the wildest hype and harshest backlash that Hollywood has to offer. Then he found a different path. By David Sims. From the September 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaki…

A close reading of the prayers delivered before the former president speaks. By McKay Coppins. From the September 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Su…

For years, experts have warned of a wave of political violence in America. We should prepare for things to get worse before they get better. By Adrienne LaFrance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age. By David Brooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The irony: Online is where we most need the identity cues that idiosyncratic language used to provide. By Dan Brooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lobbying firms have disguised their influence so well that it’s often barely visible even to savvy Washington insiders. By Franklin Foer. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news…

Twister captivated America and sparked a subgenre. Its director thought it could never be remade. Can Twisters conjure the energy of the original? By Shirley Li. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and …

Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal? By Katherine J. Wu. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe toda…

Climate reparations would hold the globe’s biggest polluters—including the United States—responsible for their actions. They might also be the best hope those nations have for saving themselves. By Vann R. Newkirk II. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pu…

How Black artists made modernism their own. By Susan Tallman. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.co…

The collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets would be disastrous. A group of scientists has an idea to save them. By Ross Andersen. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascina…

Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the nation’s fastest-growing city. By George Packer. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Sub…

Can a ’90s cult classic save the comic-book movie? By Shirley Li. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/p…

How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration. By Ko Bragg. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. …

In living with cancer, Suleika Jaouad has learned to wrench meaning from our short time on Earth. By Jennifer Senior. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating exploration…

America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise. By Daniel Engber. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and i…

Scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom. By Zoë Schlanger. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking…

The diagnosis is officially gone, but health anxiety is everywhere. By Meghan O'Rourke. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe toda…

He was the world’s most famous child star. Then he had to figure out what came next. By Chris Heath. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. S…

Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. By Anne Applebaum. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insi…

The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks. By Adrienne LaFrance. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our w…

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think. By Sarah Zhang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailor—my uncle—wrote a letter home, describing and defining the principles he was fighting for. By David M. Shribman. From the May 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and i…

Republicans like Rob Portman could have ended Donald Trump’s political career. They chose not to. By Jeffrey Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two. By Robert F. Worth. From the May 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinatin…

Or is he something else entirely? By James Parker. From the May 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn mor…

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland. By Stephanie McCrummen. From the May 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on bre…

Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas. By Gary Shteyngart. From the May 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.…

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. By Jonathan Haidt. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.c…

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories—and Ringo. By David Frum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices