Trillions of dollars are being invested into the technology and the infrastructure it relies on; in the final months of 2025, ...

The president wants to avoid a long, messy entanglement, but all of the ground options promise to be just that.

I n July 2018, NATO’s gleaming new Brussels headquarters was poised to host its first leaders’ summit. Dignitaries from ...

The best-case scenario with ICE agents at the airport is that they stand around unhelpfully, doing nothing. The worst-case ...

Revisiting Tracy Kidder’s work for The Atlantic ...

But the airport was a mess long before this week, and it will be long after. When I was first assigned to find the worst one in America, I felt for a minute like I’d been asked which Oreo flavor is ...

Focusing enforcement on employers might be the easiest choice in immigration policy—just as soon as you make all of the hard ones.

But protecting men who hurt women isn’t the way to do it. “The farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual,” Huerta wrote. In the end, she must have seen ...

Today, Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said something that no other prominent health leader in the Trump administration has. “I think it is vital that every kid in this country get the measles ...

The president has given approving head pats to his hawkish defenders. He shared a Thiessen post, and he defended Mark Levin (a hawk) over Megyn Kelly (a populist) at the peak of an online spat, during ...

Some people long for bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But there’s a third alternative.

What might Claude the AI chatbot have to say about Claude Monet? Earlier this month, San Francisco’s de Young Museum unveiled ...