Biden’s debate disaster has opened up the notion of a new nominee picked at the convention. That would depend on individual electors.
A poem for Wednesday
I leave with doubts and foreboding that I would not have anticipated when I completed my formal education in 1982.
“Pride goes before ruin; arrogance, before failure.”
Start-ups are redefining great-power conflict.
Republicans aren't the only party putting tribal loyalty ahead of basic truth.
An excavation of Trump’s “Black jobs” claim
Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.
This season’s first major storm broke records. How bad will the rest be?
Nervous Democrats mount an antidemocratic campaign against their own president.
MaXXXine, the latest film in Ti West’s X trilogy, pays tribute to yesteryear’s slasher flicks. Is that enough?
Battery and aviation experts were flummoxed by his recent assertions about electric aircraft, which are not yet in widespread use.
Automated bots are about to be everywhere, with potentially devastating consequences.
A second round between an extremist and a reformist will put the logic of boycott to the test.
The Democrats’ situation could be worse. If they’re not careful, it will be.
An economist worries about what we’re learning from the COVID-19 recovery.
Three Atlantic writers on the Supreme Court ruling and what it means for the presidency
A better meat replacement is hiding in your fridge.
Thirty-four felony convictions. Charges of fraud, election subversion, and obstruction. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles.
The Court has rescued the former president from facing trial before the election for his attack on democracy.
The game is rigged.
Images of some of the performers and concertgoers at this year’s Glastonbury music festival
And gives him permission for a despotic second term.
A new novel sees procrastination as one of the last bastions of the creative mind.
When I’m moving pieces on a board, I do not think of death.
An emerging Axis of Resistance confronts the Liberal Alliance.
Many state legislators see voucher programs as a threat to the anchors of their communities.
No matter the question, his answer is “illegal immigrants.”
Spread across hundreds of miles, they all drop their fruit at the same time.
Paige McClanahan’s book, The New Tourist, argues for recognizing how potent travel’s social force is.