Elizabeth Bruenig

When a young man detonated a car bomb in the parking lot of a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic last week, killing himself and injuring four others, I assumed the attack was related in some distorted way to pro-life politics. […]

During his campaign, Donald Trump told Christian supporters that if he became president, they would never have to vote again, because “we’ll have it fixed so good.” Now he’s trying to follow through on his promise by establishing a task

The kids’ folders come home from school fat with dead-stock papers: permission slips, notices, idle doodles, art projects, completed packets of classwork. I sort through it all, checking their work before depositing it into the recycling bin. On my eldest

There is a contradiction deep within American capital punishment, driven by the stubborn fact of the Eighth Amendment: It’s licit for the government to kill people—the torture of all tortures—but not to subject them to additional pain, a protection from

Elon Musk has allegedly fathered his 13th child with a fourth woman, the conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair. Judging by St. Clair’s public remarks on Musk’s platform, X, theirs was not necessarily a love connection: In asking that Musk acknowledge

The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move. Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty December 23, 2024, 6:13 PM ET This morning, the White House announced that President

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Earlier this month, nearly 1,500 Americans found themselves the recipients of very good news: President Joe Biden had granted them executive

Trump’s electoral victory has prompted many liberal women to move away from men, in politics and in life. Doing so is a gift to the right. Illustration by Flo Meissner December 12, 2024, 12:53 PM ET Produced by ElevenLabs and

If pardoning Hunter Biden was politically improper or reputationally risky, it was also done in accordance with the higher and fiercer laws of familial love. Illustration by Allison Zaucha / The Atlantic. Sources: Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty; Bettmann

Well wishes should be addressed in the broadest possible term. Tom Huber / Connected Archives December 2, 2024, 6:30 AM ET Toward the end of his second campaign for president, Donald Trump promised a weary nation one thing: “Merry Christmas”