He wants out, but Iran could likely keep going for months. First published in The Atlantic on May 8, 2026. P resident Trump really, really wants the war with Iran to end. He has declared victory many ...
Incorporating these books into a literary diet—whether or not a person has children—can help anyone to see and hear with fresh eyes and ears, to find or rediscover wonder in the large (mountain ranges ...
I t’s a low bar, perhaps, but no one in the Trump administration seems to be having more fun at the moment than Marco Rubio. Last weekend, he was acting as a DJ at a family wedd ...
Michael Scherer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Nick Miroff is a staff writer at The Atlantic who covers immigration, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S.-Mexico border. He can be ...
Do you really like that new song—or is someone manipulating you?
Mark Jones, who had spent more than two decades working on NATO and Europe policy as both a soldier and a civil servant, was viewed as being out of step with the administration’s jaundiced view of the ...
The Democratic wilderness is starting to look awfully sunny. Gone, for the most part, are the blame-casting, hand-wringing, and paralysis-by-analysis that gripped the party after Donald Trump’s ...
A crackdown on cigarettes has certainly been a long time coming. As late as 1974, at least 40 percent of Americans were smokers. But that figure declined steadily over the next half century. Today, ...
The tendrils of Christina Koch’s flyaway hair swirled about in the gravityless cockpit of the Orion spacecraft, seeming to ...
Your movements,” the neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett told me, “whether it’s on your face or in your body or the tones that you emit, don’t have inherent emotional meaning. They ...
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The Age of American Caesarism
The second Trump administration has revealed American Caesarism in nearly full bloom. Despite ambitions to fundamentally ...
Two senior administration officials told us that the vice president has queried the accuracy of the information the Pentagon ...
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