The Bigger This Fungus Gets, the Worse We’re Doing
Human actions have turned a usually beneficial fungus into a bringer of death.
Why Trump’s Safe Was Not Safe
U.S. national security depends upon our allies’ ability to trust us with intelligence. Mar-a-Lago was no place to keep top-secret documents.
What W. E. B. Du Bois’s Forgotten Romance Novel Taught Me About Writing
Dark Princess showed how the genre can open our minds to fantastic possibilities.
Serving Patients Through a Screen
How I went from telemedicine skeptic to advocate
The Country That Suffers Whenever Russia Schemes
Moldova’s president has high hopes. Putin has other ideas.
I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story
My escape from Afghanistan
Salman Rushdie and the Cult of Offense
This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression.
August
A poem by Helen Hunt Jackson, published in The Atlantic in 1876
Planes Have Nothing on Birds
For centuries, we’ve been searching for the secret of bird flight. Now we finally have some answers.
How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary
Why are sacramental beads suddenly showing up next to AR-15s online?
How Should Feminists Have Sex Now?
A new memoir on the unfinished sexual revolution explores the difficulty of enacting one’s political beliefs in intimate spaces.
Generation Z Doesn’t Remember When America Worked
Young Americans face a dire economy—and steep odds against political change.
Dead to Rights
What did the state of Alabama do to Joe Nathan James in the three hours before his execution?
To Support Salman Rushdie, Just Read Him
The author would like to be known for more than the Satanic Verses controversy. We can do something about that.
A Coveted Fish Is Now a ‘Climate Loser’
When is it time to give up on Rhode Island’s winter flounder?
Asking Gay Men to Be Careful Isn’t Homophobia
Public-health officials don’t need to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted.
Trump’s Scandals Are Never Done
And they seem to always get worse.
Should You Cut ‘Toxic’ People Out of Your Life?
Welcome to the cut-’em-loose era of human relationships.
Not Even a Single Republican Voted for the Climate Bill
The Inflation Reduction Act is unmistakably partisan. Can the GOP undo it?
All Because Salman Rushdie Wrote a Book
Just as the mind recoils at the sight of a single book burned, the spilled blood of an author inspires revulsion.