Weddings, famously, create conflict. Before I got married, my parents and I fought over the guest list. A friend of mine struggled with adding some of her husband’s Protestant traditions to their ...

Emily St. John Mandel writes science fiction, with the accent firmly on fiction. Imagination, not technical verisimilitude, is her strength; she wisely disregards the scientific in favor of the human.

The president’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers—for all of us—of virtual self-aggrandizement.

On Saturday night, college-football fans in Texas were blessed with a moment of collective ecstasy. Their Longhorns were ...

The saga of Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to slap his name onto the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will ...

The president wants the Smithsonian to add a colossal George Washington statue—and remove another work of abstract art in D.C ...

A few days later, she handed me her copy of Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel about a sensitive young man who is shaped and crushed by the love of his domineering mother. “Read ...

Many voters understand that the president isn’t directly responsible for the price of oil. Except this time, he is.

The government doesn’t seem ready for a major disaster. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides ...

The president is turning the charge of personalism into a promise.

When Americans picture the ultrarich, they typically think of tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, whose ...

Jon Ronson’s The Castle argues that men are giving up on society because they have nothing better to do.