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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

Twenty-two years ago, The Atlantic made the difficult decision to reduce the number of print issues published each year, dropping from 12 to 10, thus ending the run of what had been previously called The Atlantic Monthly. The rise of

For the third time in eight years, Americans have to decide whether they want Donald Trump to be their president. No voter could be ignorant by now of who he is. Opinions about Trump aren’t just hardened—they’re dried out and

October 9, 2024, 7:17 AM ET This election is the moment of truth. In The Atlantic’s final cover story ahead of the election, staff writer Tom Nichols lays out why “the votes cast in November will be more consequential than

September 25, 2024, 3:32 PM ET The Atlantic has released its 2024 “Report on Diversity & Inclusion,” an annual report showing gender and race metrics across the company. The data represent the composition of The Atlantic’s staff as of June