Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated State Representative Francesca Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic ...

At this stage in the AI race, if one of your chatbots hasn’t escaped the lab and run amok, people start to wonder whether you’re even serious. Last month, OpenAI and then Anthropic disclosed that ...

That was the day OpenAI announced a new sort of bot, known as a “reasoning model,” that was trained to complete challenging tasks that took long periods of time—the very sorts of science, math, and ...

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

Francesca Hong’s surprise loss in Wisconsin is a blessing to the Democratic Party. Last night, Francesca Hong lost the race to be the Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin. This is great news ...

Kennedy Jr. is taking on the fuzziest category in food science. You might know a tomato when you see one, but for the federal government, identifying one is harder. Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

© Benjamín Yávar / Ocean Photographer of the Year Finalist, Ocean Adventure. A free diver is surrounded by a school of sardines, which part to form a halo as they ...

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.

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...