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Why Can’t I Just Watch Sports on Television?

It shouldn’t be this hard to be a fan.

RFK Jr.’s Cheer Squad Is Getting Restless

My weekend with America’s biggest anti-vaxxers

We’re Thinking About Young Adulthood All Wrong

Twenty-somethings aren’t delayed or doomed.

The Nick Fuentes Spiral

The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.

Why Trump Gets Away With It

The institutional checks that got the country through Watergate are far weaker now.

America Is Taking the Train

Airport chaos is leading people to ride the Amtrak. Will they stick with it?

Michael Wolff’s Unsatisfying Explanation for Cozying Up to Epstein

The writer insists that it’s normal to “ingratiate” oneself with sources—even if that means serving as a de facto media adviser to the late sexual predator.

Atlantic Trivia on MTV, Pasta, Perfume, and More

And did you know that Harry S. Truman’s middle name was just the letter S?

Galaxy Brain: The Internet Is a Misery Machine

Hank Green on outrage, creativity, and what, exactly, went wrong with the internet

A Great Author’s Ongoing Struggle

Vladimir Nabokov’s leap away from Russian, his native language, was not an instantaneous, effortless transformation.

Photos of the Week: Dachshund Day, Flying Fish, Wānaka Tree

Holiday light shows across Europe, smog-filled skies in India, fall colors in Turkey, an appearance by Father Christmas in Germany, and much more

The President Who Cried Hoax

Republicans went after Epstein only when it was politically useful.

Something Feels Different About the Economy

Human brains were not meant to think about trillions of dollars.

Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor Greene

A few recent breaks with her party do not negate a lifetime of conspiracies.

Sympathy for a Handsome Devil

Noah Baumbach’s new film, Jay Kelly, takes a gamble with its fantastically successful protagonist.

The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal

When QAnon meets Veep

Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for Trump

The president is desperate to make the questions go away, but there is no sign they will.

20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months

The Trump administration is trying to treat its extrajudicial killings at sea as routine, even as more concerns emerge from the people who know the most about them.

Doomscrolling in the 1850s

The Atlantic was born in an era of information overload.

What Reconstructing Gaza Really Means

Making this cease-fire a lasting peace will require both Palestinians and Israelis to look inward as well as across the border.