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Africa

A Writer of ‘Hypnotic Repetition’

Kaitlyn Tiffany

April 9, 2026

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Trump Doesn’t Want Legal Immigrants Either

January 18, 2026

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The New History of Fighting Slavery

February 2026 Issue

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The Atlantic Announces Henry Grabar and Judith Shulevitz as Staff Writers and Chris Suellentrop as Senior Editor; Uzodinma Iweala Joins as Contributing Writer

December 22, 2025

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Atlantic Trivia on Protons, Neutrons, and Santa’s Little Demons

December 19, 2025

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National Security

So This Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like

Nancy A. Youssef

December 11, 2025

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When Leaders Mistake Brutality for Strength

December 9, 2025

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Trump’s Security Strategy Is Incoherent Babble

December 5, 2025

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The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth

September 2025 Issue

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A Novelist’s Cure for the ‘Loneliness Epidemic’

July 29, 2025

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Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

July 11, 2025

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Cheap Solar Panels Are Changing the World

October 23, 2024

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Book Recommendations

Six Political Memoirs Worth Reading

October 23, 2024

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Dikembe Mutombo Believed in the American Idea

October 1, 2024

Dikembe Mutombo

The Disorienting Beauty of ‘Africa & Byzantium’

March 2024 Issue

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The Mystery of Why Our Ancestors Left Africa

Josie Glausiusz and Sapiens

October 19, 2021

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Think 168,000 Ventilators Is Too Few? Try Three.

April 10, 2020

Health workers in Kenya working to fight the coronavirus.

Has Humanity’s Homeland Been Found?

October 28, 2019

The Okavango Delta, in northern Botswana

What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing?

July 31, 2019

Planet Earth, as seen from a satellite

China Is Leading the Next Step in Fighting Malaria in Africa

July 4, 2019

The Photographer Fighting Visual Clichés of Africa

June 2019 Issue