Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! And it’s confusing in part be … | Continue reading
The best writing leads us to a more complex and more honest understanding of the past. | Continue reading
An early harvest in Romania, a space-shuttle exhibit in Los Angeles, medieval armored combat in France, heavy rains in China, a soapbox derby in London, and much more | Continue reading
Clive Davis, who died this week, understood ambition—and how to magnify it. | Continue reading
A fleet of mobile museums is touring the country with a version of American history the administration can get behind. | Continue reading
One day that captures how Trump has gone from unpredictable to chaotic | Continue reading
The president and the secretary of defense have a right to remove officers, but also an obligation to explain their actions. | Continue reading
Harsh sentences raise uncomfortable questions about equal justice under the law. | Continue reading
Falling approval ratings for the president haven’t dimmed their enthusiasm. | Continue reading
The Reflecting Pool is an image so perfect, it feels as though symbolism as a whole gave up and decided to sign off. | Continue reading
Its propaganda seems like a hollow imitation of reality. | Continue reading
Train Dog is the meme of the summer. | Continue reading
In its final season, the FX show circles its end point. | Continue reading
The director has spent decades telling stories about extraterrestrials without ever leaving Earth. | Continue reading
Postcolonialism. Global interdependence. Perhaps even a healthy kind of nationalism in 2026? | Continue reading
“It is just unbearable,” one Paris resident said. | Continue reading
It turns out bots aren’t great teachers. | Continue reading
He built an independent central bank that withstood many crises. That independence may not last forever. | Continue reading
The banks of the Guadalupe River were an idyllic spot to park an RV. Then, last summer, it started to rain harder and faster than anyone could imagine. | Continue reading
My month with the Palantir chore coat | Continue reading
The State Fair rally was an empty celebration of a man instead of a country. | Continue reading
Before he botched the Reflecting Pool, the president wanted the border wall black. | Continue reading
America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else. | Continue reading
Most presidents become chastened about their power over time. Trump is doing the opposite. | Continue reading
The law that created the position says one person can fill it, and it’s not the person Trump wants. | Continue reading
They’re winning where they should win. | Continue reading
They aren’t the dominant force in their hometown. | Continue reading
They aren’t the dominant force in their hometown. | Continue reading
To celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, the rapper wants to transport us to another decade. | Continue reading
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is one of the largest and most expensive science projects in history. Thirty-five nations are working together to build a massive magnetic fusion device in France to prove the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a large-sca … | Continue reading
Inside the Trump-Iran negotiations, with Vivian Salama. Plus: Why do people no longer care about climate change? And Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. | Continue reading
The AI chatbot’s misgivings raise the question of whether it would refuse an illegal order. | Continue reading
The greening of the Reflecting Pool is meaningless to everybody, except the president. | Continue reading
The damage will not be undone when the Trump administration is gone. | Continue reading
Can a former mayor show that the establishment can still govern? | Continue reading
The elections will be a test for the industry’s ability to translate money into political power. | Continue reading
C. D. Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, is the latest in a long line of military departures. | Continue reading
It has become, deservedly or not, a great American export during the World Cup. | Continue reading
However worried Americans should be, we’re not that concerned. | Continue reading
The Atlantic is announcing the hires of three new staff writers: Ariel Sabar, who has contributed to The Atlantic as a freelancer since 2015, and Joshua Partlow and Sebastian Smee, both joining from The Washington Post. Joshua will cover extreme weather and natural disasters. Ar … | Continue reading
Ranchers are waiting for hundreds of millions of sterile flies to be produced, or for a technological breakthrough. | Continue reading
Many Americans assume that if they can afford paid help in older age, they won’t need to rely on kin. They’re wrong. | Continue reading
The latest dietary evil is an old story in a new package. | Continue reading
Tech companies now just need the money. | Continue reading
Aerial bombing alone can’t win a war. | Continue reading
He’s trying to defy the reality of a green Reflecting Pool and a lost war. | Continue reading
How long can the museum system’s leader, Lonnie Bunch, survive? | Continue reading