Five years ago, the United States was completing its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan when the terrorist group known as the Islamic State Khorasan Province carried out one last murderous strike.

Nothing has worked. So Trump’s new strategy is to try doing nothing, and see whether that works. The president is de-emphasizing both diplomacy and military action, and instead placing his faith in ...

Kennedy Jr. once claimed that the president’s testosterone levels are unusually high for a man of his age, and Kennedy is known to take a supplementary dose of the male sex hormone himself. In April, ...

That evidence—and the judgment of DOJ—has done little to stop Donald Trump from pursuing this debunked theory over and over ...

Today’s questions are about faith, science, and their midpoint: therapy. And once again, this is the last week of this style of Atlantic Trivia. Rabbithole, The Atlantic’s new trivia game, arrives ...

Yet none of them alone can explain why shopping is sucking up more of my time—and maybe yours too. “I don’t think people are actually enjoying the shopping process,” Jaehee Jung, a University of ...

Tricia Bacon is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of International Service at American University.