The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’
A cherished grudge might make it into a novel—but the best writers avoid creating books that feel one-sided.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Volodymyr Zelensky
A conversation with the Ukrainian president about where peace talks go from here
Is AI Ruining Music?
What we can learn from one band’s fight to protect its creative core
The Blind Spot at the Top of the World
Slashing Arctic climate science will limit how clearly the U.S. can understand the region.
Matt Lauer’s Accuser Complicates Her Story
Brooke Nevils’s memoir is also a reckoning with many misconceptions about #MeToo narratives.
Most People Don’t Have a ‘Type’
Many daters have a list of traits they’re looking for in a partner—but can be perfectly happy with someone who has few of them.
Photos of the Week: Plum Blossoms, Iron Fireworks, Carnival Queen
A stranded fuel barge in Puerto Rico, a traditional opera ball in Austria, scenes from Super Bowl LX, images from the Winter Olympics, and much more
Putin Didn’t Know How Good He Had It
The Russian leader has gotten the world he wished for—and it’s threatening to crush him.
First Jobs Matter More Than We Think
They could help us solve society’s biggest problems.
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad
Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly
The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.
What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval!
Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?
The ‘You Can’t Fire Me—I Quit’ Presidency
Trump has a pattern of taking radical steps to deal with what he says are serious problems—and then walking away once he encounters pushback.
A 168-Year-Old Question Still Worth Asking
A forceful 19th-century essay on the rise of the slaveholding oligarchy asked: “Where will it end?”
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Disqualified for a ‘Helmet of Remembrance’
The Ukrainian Olympic athlete Vladislav Heraskevych displays the memorial helmet that resulted in his ban.
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
Zelensky Makes His Pitch to Trump
Ukraine’s president calls on his most powerful ally to not squander the chance to make peace.
James Van Der Beek’s Greatest Trick
In a short-lived sitcom, he gamely mocked his role in Dawson’s Creek—and found freedom.
The Tide Goes Out on Youth Gender Medicine
American doctors are no longer united on the wisdom of medicalizing gender dysphoria in minors.