California, Seen Through the Lens of George Rose

George Rose, an editorial contributing photographer with Getty, has been making remarkable images of California’s people and landscapes for decades. Collected here is some of Rose’s recent photography, featuring his home state’s diverse forests, cities, mountains, and coastlines. | Continue reading


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The Man Who Couldn’t Do It

Keir Starmer joins the growing list of prime ministers who failed to address the country’s troubles. | Continue reading


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What Happened to Tony Carruthers Is Horrifying

Lethal injection was meant to be humane. The reality is bloody and brutal. | Continue reading


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What Will Happen to Birthright Citizenship?

The Supreme Court considers the Fourteenth Amendment. | Continue reading


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What Will Happen to Birthright Citizenship?

The Supreme Court considers the Fourteenth Amendment. | Continue reading


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Radio Atlantic Expands: Launches Second Weekly Video Episode With Adam Harris

Harris joins Hanna Rosin as co-host of The Atlantic’s flagship podcast. | Continue reading


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Newsletters Are the New Matchmakers

Writers are already attracting like-minded readers. Why not help them date? | Continue reading


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Imperfect Ghazal on Weightless Living

A poem | Continue reading


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Photos: A Bear Emergency Response Drill in Japan

With a recent increase in bear sightings and incidents in rural Japan, local communities are taking steps to prepare for such encounters. In the small city of Yaita, officials and residents worked together recently to practice their bear emergency response, acting out a simulatio … | Continue reading


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I’d Rather Risk Cancer Than See AI Move This Fast

I’d benefit if AI cured cancer. And I still want AI progress to slow down. | Continue reading


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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance

An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory. | Continue reading


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J. D. Vance’s AI Doctrine

The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA. | Continue reading


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What Comes Next for Iran

Panelists joined to discuss what the signing of an agreement between the U.S. and Iran could mean for the two countries, and more. | Continue reading


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Why Adventure Matters

Adventure may have less to do with where you go than with your willingness to leave the familiar behind. | Continue reading


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Are GLP-1s Performance-Enhancing Drugs?

A weight-loss medication eased Serena Williams’s comeback. Experts can’t agree on whether that counts as doping. | Continue reading


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The Eternal Allure of the Rabbit Hole

While researching a woman who went deep on the JFK assassination, I was pulled in, too. | Continue reading


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The Forgotten Founding Father

Excluded from America’s origin story, James Wilson may have been the most influential, prescient, and democratic drafter of the Constitution. | Continue reading


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Iran Got a Great Deal That It Could Still Squander

For some forces in Iran, no agreement is a good agreement with the United States. | Continue reading


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Trump’s Second Gamble on Iran

If the regime can’t be dislodged by force, maybe it can be bribed. | Continue reading


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The Seven-Headed Hydra at the End of Finance

What has SpaceX become? | Continue reading


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Tests of the Reflecting Pool Turn Up a Surprise

Eforts to clean the pool might be making the problem worse. | Continue reading


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Europe Needs to Stop Appeasing Trump

Obsequiousness will only backfire. | Continue reading


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How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late

The case against AI hype with Cory Doctorow | Continue reading


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Britain’s Next Leader Has Emerged

Andy Burnham, Manchester’s mayor, prepares to challenge Keir Starmer—and is likely to win. | Continue reading


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The Thinkers Who Explain This Baffling Era

These philosophers are less arcane—and more relevant—than some readers might think. | Continue reading


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Photos of the Week: Chair Hat, Shouting Choir, Demolition Derby

Summer pastures in Turkey, drought conditions in Nebraska, scenes from the World Cup, a “Canyon of Heroes” parade in New York City, a Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan, and much more | Continue reading


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What a Juneteenth Boxing Match Revealed About America

The 1936 fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling was a showdown over global fascism. | Continue reading


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The Massive Implications of the Brendan Sorsby Ordeal

The NCAA needs to figure out how to enforce its rules before something goes wrong. | Continue reading


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A Modern-Day Playtime Nightmare

Toy Story 5 confronts a problem that today’s parents are all too familiar with: screen time. | Continue reading


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The Job Market Is Thawing

The pace of hiring is slowly emerging from stasis—emphasis on slowly. | Continue reading


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The Black Soldiers Who Changed the Meaning of the Civil War

These troops helped transform a conflict fought initially to preserve the Union into one that destroyed slavery as well. | Continue reading


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The Left-Wing Case Against Anti-Zionism

Discrimination against Israelis qua Israelis—and the “Zionists” who appear as their proxies—is a moral wrong. | Continue reading


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America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek

The future of AI and jobs will be so much weirder than you think. | Continue reading


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America’s Humiliating Defeat

Iran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation. | Continue reading


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Atlantic Reads: The Housewives Underground With Kaitlyn Tiffany

The Atlantic staff writer Kaitlyn Tiffany and Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, discuss Tiffany’s new book, The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery. | Continue reading


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The Democratic Base Is Ready to Go

But where are its leaders? | Continue reading


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‘You Slap Me in the Face, I’ll Slap You Right Back’

Nancy Pelosi on gerrymandering, the midterms, and her 39 years in Congress | Continue reading


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What Disclosure Day Misses About Aliens and Religion

Steven Spielberg’s new film treats extraterrestrial life as a challenge to faith. It’s not. | Continue reading


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A Close-Up Look at the Waste of Modern Life

A new memoir by a Montreal garbageman shows the actual work of cleaning up the world’s junk. | Continue reading


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What Did You Expect?

Perhaps this was always how Trump’s ill-conceived war was destined to end. | Continue reading


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A Robin Hood You May Not Want to Root for

A mournful new film reimagines the classic do-gooder as an antihero. | Continue reading


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Netanyahu Finally Learns the Truth About Trump

An alliance with the president was the Israeli prime minister’s selling point. Now it may be his downfall. | Continue reading


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It’s Not Easy Being Green

President Trump wanted an American-flag-blue Reflecting Pool. Instead, he got a swamp. | Continue reading


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All the Sad Hawks

Neoconservatives struggle to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war. | Continue reading


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Trump Has Entered His Decline

The president’s 80th birthday was in many ways the apotheosis of his administration. | Continue reading


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The Pentagon Might Win the Lottery

But even $1.5 trillion won’t solve its problems. | Continue reading


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Photos: The Passion of World Cup Fans

The 2026 World Cup is underway, and fans around the world are gathering in stadiums, pubs, and even churches—both at home and in the three host countries—to cheer for their teams and ride the emotional roller coasters as they watch. | Continue reading


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Cuba Is Collapsing. Will Trump Invade?

CNN international correspondent Patrick Oppmann on Trump’s fixation on Cuba, the current state of the Cuban government, and what happens next. Plus: J. D. Vance’s presidential aspirations and Othello. | Continue reading


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