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The president’s reaction to mass protests in France tells us more about his mentality and domestic politics than it does about French society.

If high gas prices won’t convince drivers to go electric, what will?

Firefighters are dying trying to put out fires that could be left alone.

Publishers have every right to challenge businesses that exploit their work—but the Wayback Machine has become collateral damage.

Now that the triumphalism of the post–Cold War era is dying, what can replace it?

Over the course of decades, the Supreme Court has legalized behavior that is poisonous to a functioning democracy.

Decoupling from the U.S. is easier said than done.

The New York City mayor deserves a new cult following—among pragmatists.

In Sarah Anderson’s novel, Fallow , a woman is hired to bear children for busy C-suite executives.

The breakup with Big Tech is evident in dozens of campaign ads.

The senator is trying to defy the odds, again.

The United States should stand unequivocally with Ukraine against Russia.

Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order.

A poem

Enough with the sex toys, already.

Long careers spent covering politicians have taught David Brooks and Jeffrey Goldberg the importance of putting politics in its place.

The genetic changes that made the human brain may have made us uniquely vulnerable to Alzheimer’s.

Americans have grown accustomed to her kind of fraud.

Many Americans have decided that their country’s problem is that it has too many police officers. In fact, it has too few.

Panelists discuss the midterm elections in a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic in Austin, Texas.

Cynthia Short has devoted her career to a controversial mission: finding explanations for unthinkable crimes and convincing juries that sometimes guilty people deserve mercy.

Pumpkin-spice treats, cozy reads, and a few more ways to make the most of the season

It is not a goal to be reached, but a dream of new freedom deferred.

The Church has fought the government multiple times to ensure that detained migrants have access to sacraments.

An ideology of refusal has not made the international order fairer for Iranians or anyone else.

An incendiary post from a prominent researcher suggests that AI is actually more predictable than we thought.

The case of Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injections last month, gives new relevance to strange stories from centuries past.

The Trump administration returns to classic form.

The best-selling genre is more than just smut.

Bettors keep losing. Why do they keep coming back?

Journalists need not reject the funding, but they should be cautious.

It’s not just stealing cars and running from cops anymore.

Nathan Fielder’s new documentary is a captivating study of self-perception.

Ukraine’s defenses depend on the high-speed data links that Washington may have briefly shut down.

A highland-cattle show in Scotland, traditional sword forging in China, a fuel shortage in Bali, high water flow at Brazil’s Iguazu Falls, anti-government protests in Albania, and much more

Just-war theory, which has guided Vatican teaching for centuries, may be on its way out.

A mini-golf course

The virus used to deliver healing DNA in gene therapy is under renewed scrutiny.

Could Charleston send a Democrat to Congress?

When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

A handful of multibillionaires have some terrifying plans.

Trump is fine with a military execution by firing squad, just not with putting it on YouTube

The recent Consumer Price Index report is the last word on inflation before the midterms.

The co-chairs of Warner Bros. Pictures are out—and they may be taking their risky swings with them.

I eagerly await your response.

The memory shortage is coming for classrooms.

A collection of some of this year’s winning and honored images, selected from more than 65,000 submissions from 121 countries and territories

The health secretary believes that a common respiratory virus leaked from a government lab.

Not one single court has approved of the Department of Justice’s plans.

A live taping with Helen Lewis and Sophie Gilbert about the evolution of masculinism