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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.

Chait will write about politics and the second Trump administration from Washington, D.C. November 11, 2024, 2:03 PM ET The Atlantic is announcing a new staff writer: Jonathan Chait, who will bring his prolific writing and analysis of national politics

Melissa Blackall; courtesy of Robert Kagan November 1, 2024, 9:25 AM ET Danielle Allen and Robert Kagan, two of the nation’s prominent scholars and commentators on matters of democracy, freedom, and the American idea, are joining The Atlantic as contributing

Finalists are from the Detroit Free Press, the Daily Beast, and The Washington Post. October 30, 2024, 11 AM ET Hannah Dreier is the winner of the 21st annual Michael Kelly Award for her series “Alone and Exploited,” published by

Illustration by The Atlantic October 23, 2024, 10:50 AM ET The Atlantic did not publish an article with the headline “Trump Is Literally Hitler.” An image with this fabricated headline is circulating on social media, appearing to show an article

October 18, 2024, 10 AM ET Today The Atlantic is launching Atlantic Labs, a research and development site from the product and technology team. The product team will use this space to incubate ideas, many using AI, to understand how

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty October 15, 2024, 4:19 PM ET The Atlantic did not publish an article with the headline “To Save Democracy Harris May Need To Steal An Election.” An image with this fabricated headline (see above)

Seventy Miles in the Darién Gap For the September 2024 issue, Caitlin Dickerson reported on the impossible path to America. As a Colombian American, I was deeply moved by “Seventy Miles in the Darién Gap.” Thank you, Caitlin Dickerson, for