The Real Intelligence Failure in Iran
A costly quagmire was predictable. Trump went to war anyway.
Will Heath / NBC Illustration by Vivian Dehning. Source: Ashley Parker.
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Something important happens when you put some of the world’s most talented and ambitious young people in one place.
Illustration by Lucy Naland. Sources: Atta Kenare / AFP / Getty; Nathan Howard / Getty. Trump’s Stone Age Threat Will Lead to Tragedy
America and Iran are playing different games.
A24 The Worst Possible Moment to Rethink Your Relationship
The Drama poses the question by taking it to an extreme.
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A fractious movement is coming to recognize the need for common ground.
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Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
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A conversation with Vivian Salama about who stands to gain if America overhauls the island’s leadership
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Courtesy of Karen Batchelor; Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty. The Black Women Changing the DAR
More and more women of color are joining the 136-year-old organization.
The Family That Decided to Have Their Stomachs Removed
Māori families with a mutation for aggressive gastric cancer have had their stomachs preemptively removed. How do you live without one?
What It’s Like to Visit an Existential Therapist
It’s not meant to be comforting, but somehow it is. (From 2019)
Sarah Wilkins Americans Need to Party More
We’re not doing it as much as we used to. You can be the change we need. (From 2025)
Aleksandra Mihajlovic / Connected Archives The Easter Hare
“What has the ‘innocent rodent,’ as George Eliot would say, ‘with its small nibbling pleasures,’ to do with the great festival of the Resurrection?” (From 1890)
Jim Heimann Collection / Getty Life on Mars
Space scientists won’t say so, but the results of three brilliantly conceived experiments lead inevitably to one startling conclusion: Life, in some form, exists on Mars. (From 1977)
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Drew Angerer / Getty Courtesy of Graeme Wood the david frum show•Episode 53Watching War From the Strait of Hormuz
Graeme Wood on what he saw at the Strait of Hormuz and the lockdown of oil in the Persian Gulf. Plus: Trump’s war-information blackout and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense at 250 years old.
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What AI is actually doing to the workforce
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Autocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. how to age up•Episode 6How to Age Up on a Warming Planet
Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.
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