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The Forest Service Is About to Set a Giant Forest Fire—On Purpose
Pregnant and Depressed
The Worst Day in Earth’s History Contains an Ominous Warning
Dear Therapist: My Girlfriend Had an Affair With My Co-worker
The False Alarms That Get Kids Arrested
The Liberation of Mitt Romney
On Being Happy for and Jealous of a Friend at the Same Time
A Strange New Culprit Behind Eating Disorders
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The NBA Is Going to Have to Choose
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Bovine Friends Forever
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The Greatest, Fakest World Record
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The Washington Nationals’ Persistence Paid Off
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The Not-Com Bubble Is Popping
When GoFundMe Gets Ugly
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Top Military Officers Unload on Trump
Why Everything Is Getting Louder
‘No One Is Above the Law’
The Private Option
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Nancy Pelosi Has Had Enough
Remembering the Peerless Toni Morrison
It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the ’80s
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The Secret Power of Menopause
Deconstructing Clarence Thomas
I Gooped Myself
When the Culture War Comes for the Kids
A Secret 1950s Strategy to Keep Out Black Students
Forever 21 Underestimated Young Women
In Syria, America Had No Good Options
An Offbeat Approach to Bonding with Your Cat
White-Nationalist Terrorism Must Be Stopped
Secrets and Lies in the School Cafeteria
Whale Songs Are Getting Deeper
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I Promised Myself I’d Never Hire a Maid
Untangling the Controversy Over the New "Joker" Movie
The Students of Sex and Culture
No One Knows Trump’s Next Move
What I Wish I’d Known About Sexual Assault in the Military
On Chandler Bing’s Job
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
Unfit for Office
The ‘African Giant’ Challenging Musical Boundaries
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Greta Thunberg Is Right to Panic
The Paradox at the Heart of ‘Know My Name’
My Family Story of Love, the Mob, and Government Surveillance
The Future of the City is Childless
Work Ruined Email
On 9/11, Luck Meant Everything
I Was Never Taught Where Humans Came From
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What It's Like to Join the Freemasons
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Medicaid’s Dark Secret
Has the Presidency Skipped Gen X?
When Adding New States Helped the Republicans
Where Toxic Masculinity Goes to Die
I’m Emptying My Bank Account to Go to Columbia
American Wealth is Broken
John Bolton Will Hold This Grudge
How to Survive Impeachment
Radio Atlantic: Understanding the Whistleblower
Friendship Files: Extracurriculars Are ‘Not Worth It Unless You’re Passionate’
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
The Democratic Candidates Are Deeply Ambivalent About Obama
She Doesn’t Believe All Women
The Life of a Jacked Guy in 2019
Can Three Numbers Stem the Tide of American Suicides?
Britain’s Broken Parliament
How Domestic Abusers Weaponize the Courts
Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon
Misunderstanding Susan Sontag
The Bleak Truth Behind My ‘Inspiring’ Path From Oakland to Yale
Why Are American Homes So Big?
Dear Therapist: I Don’t Approve of My Daughter’s Boyfriend
Three Ways Mueller Says Trump Is Lying
Elizabeth Warren’s Big Night
A Reformed White Nationalist Says the Worst Is Yet to Come
The New Populist Playbook
‘This Is Clearly Coming From Outside the Solar System’
The Fight to Make Meaning Out of a Massacre
I Wasn’t a Fan of BTS. And Then I Was.
National Service Is a Terrible Idea
The Cosmic Highs and Lows of Astronaut Friendship
Rudy Giuliani: ‘You Should Be Happy for Your Country That I Uncovered This’
What Ta-Nehisi Coates Wants to Remember
Restoring the Sex and Rage to Jane Austen
‘It Makes Us Want to Support Him More’
Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends
Vaping’s Plausible Deniability Is Going Up in Smoke
Whom Would You Trust If You Were Trapped in the Airport During a Coup?
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What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
The Rat Apocalypse in New Zealand
The Most Dangerous Way to Lose Yourself
Raj Chetty’s American Dream
Introducing The Atlantic’s New Subscription Model
C.J. Cregg and the Illusions of 'The West Wing'
Mothers Are Teaching Their Daughters Bad Lessons About Beauty
Should Black Athletes Leave White Colleges?
Am I an American?
Follow the Money to the Amazon
What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse
Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill
What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
Dear Therapist: My Sister Constantly Complains
The Sheriff Who’s Defying ICE
The Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore
Acne’s Wonder Drug Is a Mental-Health Puzzle
An Existential Reading List for Middle-Aged Men
You Should Really Read E. Jean Carroll’s Memoir
Trump Has Defected
The Con Man Who Became a True-Crime Writer
How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
Workers Love AirPods Because Employers Stole Their Walls
How a Negotiation Expert Would Bargain With a Kid
Why New Zealanders Love DIY Coffins
It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Friends Are?
Mysterious Rings Around Reefs Have No Simple Explanation
There Are Two Types of Airport People
The Man With 17 Kids (And Counting)
For Smart Animals, Octopuses Are Very Weird
The Quickening
Stumbling Into Adulthood, Alongside a Friend
Instagrammers Are Exploiting the Sudan Crisis
The Secrets of Moondust
The Case Against Paper Straws
The Joy of Writing a Book With My Dad
What the Men Can Learn From the Women at Wimbledon
Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
America’s Job Listings Have Gone Off the Deep End
Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood
How Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America
Why Jessica Biel is Wrong
What Will the Moon Landing Mean to the Future?
Scientifically Proven Sources of Sex Appeal
The White House Press-Secretary Job Exists in Name Only
Celebrating My (Gay) Divorce
He Fought for Migrant Kids. Then He Got Rich.
Onboarding a New Friend
When You Give a Friend a Kidney
The Quietly Changing Consensus on Neutering Dogs
Israel’s Massive Self-Own
What It’s Like to Teach at One of America’s Least Racially Integrated Schools
The Impossible Future of Christians in the Middle East
The Case for Wearing AirPods All the Time
Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
The Myth of the ‘Underage Woman’
James Holzhauer Explains the Strategy Behind His "Jeopardy" Winning Streak
Jeff Bezos Has Plans to Extract the Moon’s Water
Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You
The U.S.-Saudi Alliance Is on the Brink
The Anthropocene Is a Joke
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
Burger King’s Dystopian Student-Debt Sweepstakes
Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined
Dear Therapist: My Husband and I Don't Have Sex Anymore
Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts
What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly
Was Shakespeare a Woman?
Going Home with Ocean Vuong
How to Win Friends With Influencer People
Edna O’Brien’s Lonely Girls
Physicians Get Addicted Too
The Friends Who Gchat All Day Long
The Opioid Crisis Is Killing Trees Too
The End of the Age of Paternity Secrets
We Spent 10 Months Investigating Kavanaugh. Here’s What We Found.
Grieving the Future I Imagined for My Daughter
Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect
Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Why Americans Just Can’t Quit Their Microwaves
Talk to People on the Telephone
Poem: "Exodus" by Adrienne Rich
Crazy/Genius: How Did the Far Right Take Over the Web?
Give Up on Work-Life Balance
Documentary: ‘1 Million Americans Will Be Shot in the Next Decade’
Befriending the Queen of Chess
Human Drugs Are Polluting the Water—And Animals Are Swimming in It
How I Tried to Defy the Facebook Algorithm
The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones
The Surreal End of an American College
The Patient Who Finally Knows Why Her UTIs Won’t Go Away
Video: The Online Speech Wars
Why Don’t White Athletes Understand What’s Wrong With Trump?
Votes for Women: A Century of Suffrage
The Unbearable Smugness of Walking
The Nostalgic End of Fleabag
Trump’s Second Term
"Crazy/Genius": Why Should We Care About Privacy?
Female Spies and Their Secrets
Aziz Ansari and the Physics of Moving Forward
The Hypocrisy of SoulCycle
How to Stay in Touch With a Friend on the Other Side of the World
The Particular Cruelty of Domestic Violence
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What We’re Reading This Summer
The Great Land Robbery
Here’s What the Retiring French Ambassador Really Thinks About Washington
Hell Is Other People’s Vacations
The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper
They Went to the Moon
They Met in an Elevator; Now They Travel the World Together
The End of the American Century
He Was Branded the ‘American Taliban.’ Now He’s Getting Out of Jail.
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Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong
Why Conspiracy Theorists Will Never Believe the ‘Official’ Epstein Story
Why Grown-Ups Keep Talking Like Little Kids
Taylor Swift’s ‘ME!’ Is Everything Wrong With Pop
Don’t Be Grateful That Dad Does His Share
The Problem With HR
The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral
Game of Thrones Delivers Its Most Cataclysmic Episode
End the Plague of Secret Parenting
Here Comes the Bad Season
‘We’re the Workaholics of the World’
Watch Your Wallet
How Technology Could Revolutionize Refugee Resettlement
There’s More to College Than Getting Into College
What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America
The Fine Line Campus Tour Guides Walk—Backwards
Read Robert Mueller’s Written Summaries of His Russia Report
A Priestless Church Simply Isn’t Catholic
Crazy/Genius: A Tale of Two Surveillance States
‘My Time Is Up. I’m Sorry.’
Cory Booker Challenges America’s Disneyfied History
The Children of the Children of Columbine
Trump’s Chief of Staff Is Having a Great Time
Two Boy Scouts Met in an Internment Camp, and Grew Up to Work in Congress
The Census Case Could Provoke a Constitutional Crisis
What Happens When You Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill
The Truth About Dentistry
Eat Food. All the Time. Mostly Junk.
The Photographer Fighting Visual Clichés of Africa
How Has Netflix Changed Entertainment?
‘There Will Be a Next Time’: A GOP Congressman Talks About Gun Violence
Beyoncé’s Black Intellectual ‘Homecoming’
The Tragic Consequences of the NHL’s Science Denial
Why Met Gala Attendees Always Screw Up the Theme
The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s Biggest Battle Is Yet to Be Won
China’s spies are on the offensive
The Most Political Animal
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The Day the National Guard Raided a Dorm in North Carolina
Trump Takes a Back Seat to Policy at the Democratic Debate
The Human Cost of Amber
The Problem With High-Minded Politics
Our Towns: A journey into the heart of America
Desus and Mero Give a Crash Course in Wokeness
How the Memory of Stonewall Lives On in a Meme
The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials
“Love Sonnets” by Pablo Neruda
Crazy/Genius: What Is Pornography Doing to Our Sex Lives?
The Hero Who Betrayed His Country
"Game of Thrones" Makes Time for Love Before War
Americans Have a Voracious Appetite for Serial Killers
Wayfair Should Have Seen This Coming
Witnessing the Fall of Notre-Dame
Dear Therapist: My Friends Stopped Talking to Me After My Divorce
What Do You Do When No One Takes You Seriously?
The Next George Bush Bet Everything on Trump
Listening to My Neighbors Fight
The Boomers Ruined Everything
Walt Whitman’s Guide to a Thriving Democracy
Fact-Checking the President in Real Time
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
10 Previously Unpublished Poems by Emily Dickinson
The New Royal Baby’s Historical Significance
An Epidemic of Disbelief
After Leaving Mormonism, These Friends Helped Each Other Create a New Life
Did Viewers Win or Lose in Game of Thrones?
Monarch Butterflies Reared in Captivity Lack a Crucial Ability
Kamala Harris Takes Her Shot
The New Abortion Bills Are a Dare
At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
Why States Want Certain Americans to Work for Medicaid
'The Goddess of Good Sex'
The Myth That Babies Look More Like Their Dads
Inside Ivanka’s Dreamworld
The Worst Patients in the World
Children Cannot Parent Other Children
The Death of the Pioneer Myth
Mireya’s Third Crossing
Should We Be Afraid of AI in the Criminal-Justice System?
The Utter Inadequacy of America’s Efforts to Desegregate Schools
What Number of Kids Makes Parents Happiest?
The Term ‘Domestic Violence’ Is a Failure
Invisible Middlemen Are Slowing Down American Health Care
The Giant Panda Is a Closet Carnivore
Are Influencers Frauds or the Future of Online Commerce?
An Extraordinary Image of the Black Hole at a Galaxy's Heart
Why Hundreds of Puffins Washed Up Dead on an Alaskan Beach
A Friendship Forged Through the Gay-Rights Movement
It Wasn’t ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching.
Rise of the Lady Backpack
Welcome to the Era of Branded Engagements
The Death of an Adjunct
Nation Building at Gunpoint
The Workplace Report
Crossing the Border to Hang Out With Your Friend
What It Was Like to Be Part of One of the Internet's First Parenting Forums
A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases
Poem: "Mushrooms" by Margaret Atwood.
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Cruising in the Age of Consent
The Teenage Girl Leading Jamaica’s New Reggae Scene
Self-censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science
The Case for Reparations
Dear Therapist: My Boyfriend Is Going Through a Divorce
The Critique That Inspired John Singleton to Make 'Poetic Justice'
You Voted to Create a New Holiday, and the Winner Is...
Abolish the Priesthood
Socialism, but in Iowa
When Your Amazon Purchase Explodes
Radio Atlantic: Sex, Gender and the Democratic Party
The New Long-Distance Relationship
They Had It Coming
Conservatives Have a Different Definition of ‘Fair’
The Friends Whose Kids All Have the Same Rare Disease
How Domestic Workers Enable Well-Off Women to Prosper
People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps
How I Bombed My First Therapy Session
Where Is the Black "Blueberries for Sal"?
Millennials Are Sick of Drinking
Poem: "In the White Giant's Thigh" by Dylan Thomas
Misinformation Is Endangering India’s Election
The Friends Who Have Been Playing the Same Game of Dungeons & Dragons for 30 Years
Nipsey Hussle's Death Amplifies His Commitment to Activism
An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry
A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals
Not Quite Triplets, Not Just Siblings
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A #MeToo Nightmare in the World of Competitive College Speech
Taxpayers Are Very Confused
Barbara Bush’s Long-Hidden ‘Thoughts on Abortion’
Lasting Grief After a Mass Shooting
The Cult of Homework
The Kinetic Horror of Lupita Nyong’o’s 'Us' Performance
The Original Sin of NASA Space Suits
Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem
Dear Therapist: My Wife Is Pregnant With a Child Neither of Us Wants
The Mueller-Industrial Complex Collapses
The Art of Navigating a Family Political Discussion, Peacefully
A Big, Weird, Pancake-Shaped Fish Keeps Surprising Beachgoers
4 Myths Fueling the Fight Over NYC’s Exclusive High Schools
A Secret Database of Child Abuse
Midwestern Flooding Isn’t a Natural Disaster
What Is Spring Like on Other Planets?
The Radical Sincerity of "The OA"
Video: Death-Cap Mushrooms Are Terrifying and Unstoppable
Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
Poem: "Green Fields" by W.S. Merwin
"Game of Thrones" Turned Its Composer Into a Rock Star
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
"The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann" Is an Emotional, Exhaustive Project
It’s Gonna Be Huge
The Shooter’s Manifesto Was Designed to Troll
White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
The 2020 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
The College-Admissions Scandal and the Warped Fantasy of the American Scam
A Scandal Fit for a Win-at-All-Costs Society
How Your Dog Knows When You’re Sick
A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth
The Consequences of Teen Motherhood Can Last for Generations
The Western Erasure of African Tragedy
How Much Immigration is Too Much?
Death by Civilization
Why So Many Americans Are Turning to Buddhism
The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
The Women Who Are Clearing the Minefields in Sri Lanka
What Are Dreams?
Saying Goodbye to the Most Beloved Father in "Riverdale"
The Tunisian-Italian Rapper Who Won Over Europe’s Most Anti-Immigrant Country
Is This the End of Recycling?
John Bolton May Save Us All
How AI Will Rewire Us
Andrew Cuomo’s Case for 2020—No, Really
The Geography of Partisan Prejudice
The Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America
Is DNA Left on Envelopes Fair Game for Testing?
Why Are So Few Male Students Studying Abroad?
Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures
The Inside Lives of Child Instagram Influencers
The Problem With a Fight Against Toxic Masculinity
Conservative Christians Just Retook the United Methodist Church
Michael Cohen’s Stunning Testimony About Trump
Intuitive Eating: The Latest (Not) Diet Trend
What's the Deal With Free College?
A Great, Forgotten Black Radical
Documentary: A Chapel at the Border
Your 2019 Oscars Crash Course
Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking Phase
America’s Dopamine-Fueled Shopping Addiction
Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
The Coming Care Crisis as Kids With Autism Grow Up
A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy
A School Nurse Is on a Mission to Count the Women Killed by Men
Kaepernick Won. The NFL Lost.
My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children
When Wall Street Is Your Landlord
Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO
Suicide Memes Might Actually Be Therapeutic
What Do Early KonMari Adopters’ Homes Look Like Now?
A Friendship Baked in the Great British Bake Off Tent
Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse?
How Fancy Water Bottles Became a 21st-Century Status Symbol
No One Really Knows What to Do With All of America’s Unclaimed Corpses
Nobody Is Going to Believe You
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The Wedding-Industry Bonanza, on Full Display
The Obama Portraits Have Had a Pilgrimage Effect
Yearbooks Aren't the Only Place to Find Blackface on Campus
Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America
