Minimalism Is Neat, but Clutter Makes a Home
I don’t love the look of mismatched junk, but the mess satisfies a deeper emotional need.
I don’t love the look of mismatched junk, but the mess satisfies a deeper emotional need.
Forty years ago, scientists did the impossible. Why doesn’t anyone remember?
Where The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health reporters found wonder this year
Here, in our house of worship, people were taunting me about politics as I tried to mourn.
They make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes—and it shows.
The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.
A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate introduction to that part of the world’s history on which we are now entering, when the great inequalities…
An internet personality who espouses fascism, racism, and bodybuilding has won influential converts.
What I learned while binge-watching social media’s hottest melodrama
After four University of Idaho students were killed, TikTok and Reddit sleuths swarmed the campus. The community is still struggling with the wreckage they left behind.
Unprepared and weak-willed opponents continue to play right into his hands.
In a new book, Matthew Desmond argues that to understand what keeps people poor, we need to take a good look at the rich.
Just how far can this climate momentum take us?
The GOP strategy of acclimatizing us to scandal is still working.
The powerful new chatbot could make all sorts of trouble. But for now, it’s mostly a meme machine.
Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity
It’s just missing the 3-D space to virtually hang out in.
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.
The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.
Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.
Scaring children won’t keep them safe. Instead, help them see the good in the world.
The West Virginia v. EPA ruling signals a future in which no one in power has the ability to tackle the biggest issues society faces.