Buried in Volcanic Ash, Scenes from the Canary Islands

Millions of cubic meters of fallen ash now blanket much of the landscape near the eruption. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Of Course Kyle Rittenhouse Was Acquitted

It is one thing to argue that the jury reached a reasonable verdict based on the law, and another entirely to celebrate Rittenhouse’s actions. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire

Who cares if a brutal autocracy is destroyed? Why would anyone want to make another one? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Covid Sure Looks Seasonal Now

After two years of pandemic waves, we’re finally learning whether the disease has a predictable schedule. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Progressive Dark-Money Group You’ve Never Heard Of

Over the past half decade, Democrats have quietly pulled ahead of Republicans in untraceable political spending. One group helped make it happen. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing?

In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Should elephants have legal personhood? An upcoming case will decide

The most important animal-rights case of the 21st century revolves around an unlikely subject. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Self-Help That No One Needs

The pandemic has boosted interest in trauma books full of advice that isn’t particularly relevant to what most Americans are going through. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Kristen Stewart Has Always Been a Great Actor

Her lauded performance in "Spencer" has its roots in "Twilight." | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The AMA Embraces Leftist Language – and Leaves Patients Behind

New guidelines urge doctors to talk like social-justice ideologues. Whether patients understand them is beside the point. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Why Health Care Workers Are Quitting

About one in five health-care workers has left medicine since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

We Live by a Unit of Time That Doesn’t Make Sense

The seven-day week has survived for millennia, despite attempts to make it less chaotic. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Danger of Loving Your Job

Doing work that is fulfilling has become ubiquitous career advice, but no one should depend on a single social institution to define their sense of self. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Xi Jinping’s Terrifying New China

The country is in the grip of the most concerted government campaign to assert greater control over its people in decades. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Day I Got Old

It just suddenly happened, and there isn’t a sports car in the world I can buy to make it otherwise. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Dave Chappelle’s ‘The Closer’ Is Not a Simple Victim-Bully Story

The comedian’s latest special blurs the line between victim and bully. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

A Girl Who Turned to Bone

Unexpected discoveries in the quest to cure an extraordinary skeletal condition show how medically relevant rare diseases can be. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Myth of the Woke College Graduate

A new poll finds little difference between people with and without college degrees on questions about “wokeness.” | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

No One Cares

Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The World Is Fed Up with China’s Belligerence

Democracies are no longer as worried as they once were about offending a fragile Beijing. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Internet’s Unkillable App

The noisier our digital lives get, the more popular the humble newsletter becomes. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Animals of the Future

Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, rats’ teeth are getting shorter. What’s in store for us? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

How Easily Can Vaccinated People Spread Covid?

Vaccination is the best protection against infection. But when breakthroughs do occur, a very basic question still has an unsatisfying answer. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

A Plan to Create Just Two Time Zones in the Continental United States (2013)

We shouldn't just end Daylight Saving Time, but also take it one step further. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Next Weird Way We’re Changing Cats

What if you could make your cat hypoallergenic with biotechnology? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Casteism I See in America and American Tech Companies

A raft of evidence shows that caste discrimination has been imported from India to the United States. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Singularity is Here: A.I. advertising technology is poisoning our societies

Artificially intelligent advertising technology is poisoning our societies. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

What Collective Narcissism Does to Society

In everyday settings, it can keep people from listening to one another. At its worst, it might fuel violence. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

America Needs a New Scientific Revolution

A repurposed antidepressant might help treat COVID-19, a remarkable study found. The way this research was funded highlights a big problem—and bigger opportunity—in American science. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Nobody Can See into Facebook

Imagine if automakers were the only ones who could test their cars—and they kept the results secret. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

What Becoming a Parent Does to Your Happiness

Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

It’s Time to Contemplate the End of the Crisis

Immunity is rising, and the approval of shots for young children is one of the last thresholds before a return to greater normalcy. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

To Save the Whales, Feed the Whales

The mass slaughter of whales destroyed far more than the creatures themselves. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Dark Art of Interrogation (2003)

The most effective way to gather intelligence and thwart terrorism can also be a direct route into morally repugnant terrain. A survey of the landscape of persuasion | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Hot Streaks in your career don’t happen by accident

First explore. Then exploit. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Why Are We Microdosing Vaccines for Kids

The age cutoffs for COVID-19 vaccine sizes (mostly) make sense. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once

The benefits of ventilation reach far beyond the coronavirus. What if we stop taking colds and flus for granted, too? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Cancer Celebrities

Why I love Farrah Fawcett and hate Sheryl Crow | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

America Has Lost the Plot on COVID

We’re avoiding the hardest questions about living with the coronavirus long term. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Myth of Root Canals. Good news: They are no longer terrible

Good news: They are no longer terrible. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

War with China Begins

A cold war is already under way. The question is whether Washington can deter Beijing from initiating a hot one. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

If Silence Is the Cost of Great Ramen, So Be It

Japan’s restaurants are taking COVID precautions to a whole new level. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Listener (2010)

For four hours every night, on holidays and weekends, George Noory is the voice in the darkness for millions of Americans. His show, Coast to Coast AM, has perfected a charged and conspiratorial worldview that now pervades American media. It’s quite possibly the oddest show … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Metaverse Was Lame Even Before Facebook

It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Zuckerberg wants to be the hero of the metaverse because Facebook is boring

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the hero of the metaverse because he knows Facebook is boring. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Is Moderna Better Than Pfizer–Or Is It Just a Higher Dose?

It’s possible that a good deal of the difference in the shots’ performance can be summed up with a simple phrase: More is better. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Cuckoos start bodybuilding inside the egg

Cuckoos spend their early days murdering fellow nestmates. To pull it off, they start bodybuilding inside the egg. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders Life and Death (2020)

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago