The more we live on our phones, the more life requires us to do so; innovations such as QR codes and dual-factor authentication have made the world ever harder to navigate sans iPhone. Walking around ...

The origin story of L.A.’s Palisades Fire, according to a criminal complaint announced yesterday, reads like a scene from an art-house film. Shortly before midnight on New Years ...

The Georgia representative is finding a new voice. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and ...

The Paria Peninsula, on Venezuela’s eastern coast, is known for its golden-sand beaches, its forested hills, and its blue-green waters. It’s also a center of Venezuelan drug trafficking. Off its ...

László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels ...

Yet the director resisted making Johnson totally unrecognizable. “You can still see Dwayne underneath it,” he said. “There’s ...

Growing up in A Coruña, Spain, in the early 2000s, we were told that learning a second language was just as important as ...

But in the reality show that has replaced a properly functioning system of democratic governance, we are fast approaching the moment when a shutdown stops being a subject of political bluster and ...

Though WhiteHouse.gov has always been a place to showcase the administration’s agenda, it has mostly looked like the website ...

Tall, rich, and beautiful, Richmond was hard to ignore. His eyes in particular were “superb,” as one contemporary remembered; ...

The president’s ego inspires plenty of bad choices, but his desire for a Peace Prize is proving useful.

Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable.