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The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever, Derek Thompson wrote in the February issue. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality. Derek Thompson’s article resonated with me deeply, but I […]

Teaching Lucy In the December 2024 issue, Helen Lewis wrote about how one woman became the scapegoat for America’s literacy crisis. Explore the March 2025 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View

Dear everyone, I’m writing to share the happy news that two of Washington’s most accomplished and authoritative reporters, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, are joining The Atlantic as part of our effort to deepen our coverage of the incoming administration,

Washington’s Nightmare Donald Trump is the tyrant the first president feared, Tom Nichols wrote in the November 2024 issue. Thank you, Tom Nichols, for your timely article profiling our Founding Father. President George Washington modeled key tenets of public service:

December 9, 2024, 8:16 AM ET For The Atlantic’s January cover story, “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment,” staff writer Caitlin Flanagan writes for the first time about growing up with the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, and

For three years running, while considering which books will make up our Atlantic 10 list, we have asked ourselves the same basic questions: Which stories this year brought unexpected clarity to the subjects that most confounded our understanding? Which of

The Atlantic expands health coverage with new section, reporting on the body, mind, and how we live Illustration by Katie Martin. Sources: Getty November 20, 2024, 9:30 AM ET Today The Atlantic is launching Being Human, a new section and

The Story of Art Without Men If, like me, you love museums, love coffee-table books, and loathe the systemic erasure of women from the Western cultural canon, then this gift is for you. In 2015, Katy Hessel went to an

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school, Rose Horowitch wrote in the November 2024 issue. Explore the December 2024 Issue Check out more

Trust in our current meritocratic system has plummeted, with large masses of voters turning instead to populist leaders including Donald Trump. Our elite-education system has a lot to answer for, Brooks argues. We need a new set of meritocratic values.