- www.theatlantic.com The Era of Risk-Averse Super Bowl Ads
For a short time, brands embraced political marketing. That trend is fading.
- www.theatlantic.com It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans
Welcome to the end of the human civil servant.
- www.theatlantic.com A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities
The ivory tower has been breached.
- www.theatlantic.com Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.
- www.theatlantic.com Samizdat for Science
Health and science data are being deleted by the Trump administration.
- www.theatlantic.com What Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Said
The rapper insists he’s a musician, not a messiah—a message reinforced by his Super Bowl performance.
- www.theatlantic.com The New Authoritarianism
This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.
- www.theatlantic.com A Finnish Writer’s Portrait of American Loneliness
Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel about American retirees.
- www.theatlantic.com The Unfunny Man Who Believes in Humor
How Lorne Michaels became the arbiter of funny
- www.theatlantic.com How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
- www.theatlantic.com A Super Bowl Spectacle Over the Gulf
The president plans to highlight his proposed name change mid-route on Air Force One.
- www.theatlantic.com What Is Hims Actually Selling?
The lifestyle-med company built a business on male anxieties. Now it’s betting on a new message: grievance.
- www.theatlantic.com Trump’s Conquest of the Kennedy Center Is Accelerating
The president has begun purging the board of Washington’s premier arts organization.
- www.theatlantic.com Superb Owl Sunday IX
A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating such magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are seen here in photos from recent years.
- www.theatlantic.com ‘A Very Christian Concept’
The faith’s mandate is more arduous than J. D. Vance’s account seems to allow.
- www.theatlantic.com Picking the Perfect Episode of TV
Readers share their selections from The Last of Us, West Wing, Community, and more.
- www.theatlantic.com The No-Longer-Need-to-Hide-It Administration
Paul Ingrassia, an online reactionary, is in place at the DOJ.
- www.theatlantic.com Why Tom Brady Could Be Worth $375 Million in the Booth
Applying any normal ROI analysis to Brady’s broadcaster contract is difficult for at least four reasons.
- www.theatlantic.com How One California Neighborhood Rebuilt After a Devastating Fire
Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park was destroyed in 2017—but mostly recovered. It could be a model for Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
- www.theatlantic.com What an ‘America First’ Diet Would Really Look Like
The notion that the U.S. could produce all of its food domestically is nice, but very far from reality.
- www.theatlantic.com Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Trump wants to bring back the spoils system of the 19th century.
- www.theatlantic.com Sun and Wood Can Be a Powerful Combination
In the right place, at the right time
- www.theatlantic.com The Thrill of the Quest
A roundup of essays in which Atlantic writers travel near and far to find what’s missing
- www.theatlantic.com The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
- www.theatlantic.com Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center
The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.
- www.theatlantic.com How the Tariff Whiplash Could Haunt Pricing
The great North American trade war is over—for now—but uncertainty can do its own damage.
- www.theatlantic.com The Department of Paranoia
The effort to kill USAID has enshrined Elon Musk’s delusional conspiracy theories into official White House policy.
- www.theatlantic.com The Algorithmic Cage
The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace.
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America Can’t Escape Intensive Parenting
www.theatlantic.com Parenting in America Keeps Getting More IntensiveThe philosophy is hard on parents and children alike.
- www.theatlantic.com Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia
Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?
- www.theatlantic.com What the Democrats’ Musk Whisperer Thinks Now
“We need to make sure that Elon Musk has an allegiance to the Constitution,” Representative Ro Khanna says.
- www.theatlantic.com What Does the Department of Education Actually Do?
With the help of Congress, a president could get rid of the agency. Getting rid of the programs it runs and the money it spends would be a different matter.
- www.theatlantic.com Hitler’s Oligarchs
First they reviled him. Then they supported and enabled him. Then they regretted it.
- www.theatlantic.com A Greenland Plot More Cynical Than Fiction
In Donald Trump’s world, reality has quickly become stranger than I ever imagined in "Borgen."
- www.theatlantic.com A New Kind of ‘Illness Realism’
Two authors' memoirs attempt to communicate intensely isolating experiences to readers.
- www.theatlantic.com Trump Is Inheriting an Environmental Disaster
PFAS could be the rare environmental issue that gets addressed this term.