Kaitlyn Tiffany

In 1962, the CIA had a driver’s license made for one of its officers, James P. O’Connell. It gave him an alias: James Paul Olds. We know this because the document containing the information was released to the public in […]

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Forever 21 opened in my hometown when I was in middle school, when the opening of a new store at the

Everybody knows the secret of life. The secret of life is: Keep your eye on the ball. I’m borrowing that from a 1998 song by America’s sweetheart, Faith Hill, but if you don’t know the song, you still know that

Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023, is still with us (even though he’s dead). He spent about a year roaming New York City—hunting in the park, hooting from fire escapes—and in that time,

A memecoin is a cryptocurrency that, like most cryptocurrencies, has no inherent value. It is created to represent an internet meme, and its value is tied very loosely to that meme’s popularity; you could think of it as like owning

The glorification of dangerous thinness is a long-standing problem in American culture, and it is especially bad on the internet, where users can find an unending stream of extreme dieting instructions, “thinspo” photo boards, YouTube videos that claim to offer

To enter the Strother School of Radical Attention, you have to walk through what has come to be known as “influencer alley.” Any time of day or night, dozens of people will be standing along this brick-paved part of Brooklyn,

Suddenly, these events are everywhere. What’s going on? Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Chung Sung-Jun / Getty November 21, 2024, 12:33 PM ET The fad began with a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in New York City on a beautiful day

If this wasn’t the Podcast Election, it was certainly a podcast-y election. Millions of people watched the results come in on a handful of livestreams hosted by popular podcasters, including one hosted by Tucker Carlson from Mar-a-Lago, on which Donald

After the 2016 elections, critics blamed Facebook for undermining American democracy. They believed that the app’s algorithmic News Feed pushed hyperpartisan content, outright fake news, and Russian-seeded disinformation to huge numbers of people. (The U.S. director of national intelligence agreed,