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An image of President Trump speaking from a podium in front of a large American flag backdrop — Tierney L. Cross / The New York Times / Redux

This Is Not How Presidents Typically Communicate

In an Easter Sunday blast, Donald Trump broke with the way his predecessors comported themselves during times of war.

Barbara A. Perry

April 6, 2026

An illustration of a laptop in a trash can — Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

What Happened After a Teacher Ditched Screens

Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them

April 6, 2026

Photograph taken behind iron window grills of a destroyed building with an Iranian flag hanging from its side — Atta Kenare / AFP / Getty

Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display

What China can learn about the limits of American military capacity

Phillips Payson O’Brien

April 6, 2026

Illustration of a globe with a silhouette of Trump's face against a map of Iran in green and tan — Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Sources: Roberto Schmidt / Getty; Valentin Rakovsky and Julie Pereira / AFP / Getty.

Why Trump Thinks He Can Walk Away From the Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. is feeling much less pain than its allies are.

April 5, 2026

In a collage there is a map on top of a drawing of a car driving in the sunset on a long road — Illustration by Allison Zaucha Davis. Sources: Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty; Nextrecord Archives / Getty.

I Took to the Road and Found Hope for America

At sites devoted to preserving the nation’s complicated past, people were constructing better futures.

April 5, 2026

Collage of photographs of Karen Batchelor's ancestors and a certificate of induction in the DAR. — Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Courtesy of Karen Batchelor; Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty.

The Black Women Changing the DAR

More and more women of color are joining the 136-year-old organization.

April 4, 2026

A photo of graduates lined up in red and black graduation robes. — Brooks Kraft / Getty

What an Ivy League Education Really Gets You

Economists have a new theory of why graduates of top colleges have so much career success.

April 4, 2026

Illustration by Lucy Naland. Sources: Atta Kenare / AFP / Getty; Nathan Howard / Getty.

Trump’s Stone Age Threat Will Lead to Tragedy

America and Iran are playing different games.

April 3, 2026

Black-and-white illustration of black redactions, Jeffrey Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ghislaine Maxwell, and various emails and government documents — Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: Department of Justice; Rick Friedman / Corbis / Getty; Mark Mainz / Getty; Reuters.

The Epstein Spectrum

A moral exercise in a moral desert

April 3, 2026

Photograph of Todd Blanche speaking to Pam Bondi as she holds her bottom lip with her hand — Anna Moneymaker / Getty

The Next Attorney General Has an Impossible Job

Just like the last one

April 2, 2026