The Most Shocking Aspect of RFK Jr.’s…
What’s surprising isn’t that Kennedy voiced an anti-Jewish conspiracy, but that it took this long.Illustration by…
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America Has Gone Too Far in Legalizing Vice
“The cause of a gambling problem is the individual’s inability to control the gambling.” So says the National…
The Authoritarian Right Is Regrouping
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,…
“Monuments to the Unthinkable”––In Cover Story,…
“It is impossible for any memorial to slavery to capture its full horror, or for any memorial to the Holocaust to…
America Is a Rich Death Trap
Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here.Last week, the National Center for Health Statistics alerted Americans to two…
What Lies Behind That ‘No Trespass’ Sign
I always pined for the wide open, though I grew up in suburban Maryland, hemmed in by private land and no trespass…
Republicans Seem to Think Putting a Black Woman…
Joe Biden hasn’t yet picked a nominee to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, but…
What a National Guard Commander Saw on January 6
Nearly a year after Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Americans have a much better picture of how…
The Man Who Freed Me From Cant
I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Memory is tricky, and a work can assert…