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

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.

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 ...

The MAGA movement contends that feminism is to blame for American decline. But feminism didn’t emerge from nothing. Feminism ...

Her co-star Stephen Root, who took home the trophy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, is widely regarded as an actor’s actor—the kind of performer who adds depth to any story, no ...

The girls get to sit down.” She had just won her fifth straight award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in HBO Max’s Hacks, about the tender and testy friendship between an ...

Tonight, the Supreme Court handed down an emergency ruling blocking the Trump administration from implementing a new policy ...

But rarely has public opinion flipped so quickly and so thoroughly as it has on AI in recent months. While AI was making some ...

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

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

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