We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Ideas
Universities Deserve Special Standing
A good life and a good society require an ongoing search for understanding and knowledge.
A White House Briefing Straight From North Korea
How MAGA influencers have reshaped the press corps
A Witch Hunt at the State Department
Trump’s commissars are looking for ideological enemies.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
Americans Don’t Do This
On Mahmoud Khalil and the right to free expression
Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.
DOGE Was Bad. Schedule F Will Be Worse.
An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure.
Signalgate, Trump, and The Atlantic
Denial and attack have worked exceedingly well for the president. But there are limits.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.