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Photos From the Third Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest

March 29, 2026

Police officers in riot gear arrest a protester dressed as Lady Liberty in chains.

The Wonder Reader

The Surprising Relationship Between Happiness and Intelligence

January 17, 2026

A father and son walk at dusk

The Atlantic Daily

ICE Wasn’t Always Like This

January 9, 2026

ICE in Minneapolis

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

October 10, 2025

Money flying out the exhaust pipe of a National Guard vehicle

The Destruction of One of America’s Oldest Traditions

October 7, 2025

An image of federal agents attempting to keep protesters back outside an ICE facility on October 05, 2025 in Portland, Oregon

National Security

Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online

Isaac Stanley-Becker

October 2, 2025

Protesters—including one dressed in a chicken suit—gather after dark outside a big gray building surrounded by a chain-link fence.

AI Slop Might Finally Cure Our Internet Addiction

July 22, 2025

A purple figure stands in a garden of trees, seen through a circle cut in a background of black with abstract purple shapes floating around.

The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius

June 17, 2025

Graphic illustration of a child walking on top of a rotary phone.

Shade Will Make or Break American Cities

August 2, 2024

A man wipes his forehead under the hot sun as he walks under shade sail.

Crows Are the New Pigeons

March 15, 2024

Photograph of crows landing and perching on electrical equipment at sunset

19 Ways to Understand This Heat

July 13, 2023

A photograph of a woman drinking from a water bottle, with a full afternoon sun blazing onto her.

When Science Outpaces Ethics

Conor Friedersdorf

June 15, 2023

a vial containing five-day-old synthetic mouse embryos

What I’m Teaching My Daughter About Living in Extreme Heat

Aaron Gilbreath

July 3, 2021

A photograph of a man holding a bottle of water to a toddler's mouth as they sit on a bench with another toddler who is drinking juice.

In Trump’s Virtual World, Real Catastrophes Do Not Compute

September 13, 2020

The Atlantic Daily: What Portland Foretells About the State of Democracy

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

August 31, 2020

Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland

July 23, 2020

Nothing Can Justify the Attack on Portland

Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes

July 21, 2020

Dear Graduates, I Failed and Failed Until Something Worked

May 19, 2020

A young woman smoking