What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?
The passage of the Ukrainian aid package won’t transform the GOP.
A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.
Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not.
A handful of images of the tens of billions of individual animals divided among some 10,000 species, inhabiting nearly every environment on Earth
What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?
Why so many American leaders are advancing a new kind of nihilism
To read through the court filings is to be plunged back anew into the dizzying chaos of those last few weeks before the 2016 election.
A potential reckoning that he has spent a lifetime eluding could be coming.
Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Trump is reaping the benefits.
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic.
Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change.
A conversation with this year’s speed-solving champion, Paolo Pasco
A popular remedy is made from hides imported from Africa—but the out-of-control trade is causing geopolitical problems for Beijing.
The cost of insurance is up 40 percent over the past two years.
Culture and entertainment musts from Valerie Trapp
The iconic Yankees broadcaster John Sterling reminds us that what makes us human cannot be imitated.
A poem for Sunday
It wasn’t just Putin who lost in the House vote on Ukraine aid.
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces mounting frustration among his right-wing Republican colleagues.
Scientists hope a gentler approach can save those in San Francisco Bay.
Somewhere along the line, the plane maker lost interest in making its own planes. Can it rediscover its engineering soul?
Tiny art deserves more attention.
A conversation with Faith Hill about daters’ competing desires for structure and serendipity
What’s your Elo rating?
“If time is a luxury, why don’t we flaunt it?”
The generative-AI boom looks very different for non-English speakers.
The author Ruby Tandoh argues for the freedom to cook—and eat—for pleasure.
Flag dishes you want to make, or don’t: The point of this practice is pleasure, not pragmatism.