The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
How to Stay in Touch With Your Friends
The Atlantic’s writers and editors share what they do when life gets in the way.
Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations
Deporting illegal immigrants is lawful. Imprisoning them in El Salvador makes a mockery of the Eighth Amendment.
The Judiciary Pushback Against Trump’s Agenda
How courts across the country have responded to the president’s immigration agenda
The Link Between Happiness and Social Connection
Building a meaningful life is hard for young people to do right now.
The Writer Who Understood Aloneness
Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of them most of all.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Universities Deserve Special Standing
A good life and a good society require an ongoing search for understanding and knowledge.
Trump’s Hollow Defense of Tariffs
His usual marketing savvy is nowhere to be seen.
Fox and Frenemy
Trump may lash out at the network. But the two will always make up.
The Missing Part of Trump’s Minerals Math
Without demand from clean energy, the U.S. market for rare earth, graphite, and lithium will falter.
Take Your Book Outside
Reading al fresco isn’t always idyllic, but it can be sublime.
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
Marvel Doesn’t Have to Try So Hard
The new film Thunderbolts* understands that bigger does not mean better.
Photos of the Week: May Day, Fire Festival, Finger Wrestling
A sandstorm in northeastern Syria, the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican, members of ZZ Top in Australia, and much more
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in Sinners
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.