'The Magic Mountain' Saved My Life
When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose. Today, its vision is startlingly relevant.
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A ‘Crazy’ Idea for Treating Autoimmune Diseases Might Actually Work
Lupus has long been considered incurable—but a series of breakthroughs are fueling hope.
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The Secret Code of Pickup Basketball
The game presents a social problem: How does one find comity among a group of jostling strangers?
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Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.
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America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease
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The Icon of the Seas Will Not Countenance a Shrug
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
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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.
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Gift Article: How We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars
Forty years ago, scientists did the impossible. Why doesn’t anyone remember?
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Gift Article: 81 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2023
Where The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health reporters found wonder this year
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Gift Article: My Father, My Faith, and Donald Trump
Here, in our house of worship, people were taunting me about politics as I tried to mourn.
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Airlines Are Just Banks Now
They make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes—and it shows.
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The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again
The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.
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Mountains and Their Origin
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…
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How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right
An internet personality who espouses fascism, racism, and bodybuilding has won influential converts.
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How Elon Musk’s Buffoonery Misleads His Critics
What I learned while binge-watching social media’s hottest melodrama
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The Gross Spectacle of Murder Fandom
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.
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How to Beat Trump in a Debate
Unprepared and weak-willed opponents continue to play right into his hands.
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The One Cause of Poverty That’s Never Considered
In a new book, Matthew Desmond argues that to understand what keeps people poor, we need to take a good look at the rich.
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Fighting Climate Change Was Costly. Now It’s Profitable.
Just how far can this climate momentum take us?
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Amazingly, George Santos Is a Member of Congress
The GOP strategy of acclimatizing us to scandal is still working.
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Five Remarkable Chats That Will Help You Understand ChatGPT
The powerful new chatbot could make all sorts of trouble. But for now, it’s mostly a meme machine.
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Breakthroughs of the Year
Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity
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Weirdly, Taylor Swift Is Extremely Close to Creating a True Metaverse
It’s just missing the 3-D space to virtually hang out in.
