These books can help young people come to terms with the thoughts that feel too scary to say out loud.

We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.

Panelists discuss what a military parade in Beijing reveals about the future of American diplomacy, and more.

The Trump administration is ending U.S. support for immunizations abroad because of its opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself.

The administration is cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to abandon its criminal case—all to avoid admitting error.

The diamonds she wore in court sent a message, and not a particularly subtle one.

GOP House leaders still can’t find a way to make the math of Trump’s tax bill add up.

Susan Tallman, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, is an art historian and the author, most recently, of Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints: 1976–2022.

If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.

As the leader of the Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger’s role was to get wrongfully fired civil servants back on the job—until he got fired himself.

In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.

Panelists discuss the president’s firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General C. Q. Brown.