The Happiness of Choosing to Walk Alone
Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable.
Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?
My dumbphone does what an app could never do.
Saudi Arabia Gets the Last Laugh
The Riyadh Comedy Festival is just one part of a much bigger plan.
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
The Moral Foundation of America
The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.
Whose Independence?
The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.
So Much Madeira
What the Founding Fathers ate—and drank—on July 4, 1777
The Insurrection Problem
Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?
Secrets of a Radical Duke
How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery
Trump’s Plan to Finally End the Gaza War
How far is the president willing to go to achieve his promised peace in the Middle East?
Retribution Is Here
The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.
Americans Are About to Feel the Government Shutdown
Airport delays and IRS closures are just the beginning.
Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much
Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.
Bari Weiss Still Thinks It’s 2020
She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.
Bring Back High-Stakes School Testing
Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on testing, accountability, and how to reverse the decade-long decline in U.S. student achievement. Plus: David Frum on Donald Trump’s cult of sycophancy.
Pam Bondi, Loyal Servant
At a congressional oversight hearing yesterday, the attorney general followed her north star: pleasing the president.
What Not to Fix About Baseball
In a new book, the sportswriter Jane Leavy spitballs with some of the greats about how to make the American pastime more appealing.
Trump’s Costly Cuts to the Civil Service
The administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce for a rounding error’s worth in savings.
Behind The Atlantic’s November 2025 Issue Cover
Capturing the Revolutionary era in its complexity, contradictions, and ingenuity. Plus: A guide to the figures.
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.