We know of nothing,” Henry James observed in 1875, “that is a better proof of the essential impotence of criticism, in the ...

When David Hockney in the 1960s turned his attention to a photograph of a splash-splattered swimming pool, he did what most ...

Panelists joined a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss the state of democracy 250 years after the Declaration of Independence.

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The most notable thing about President Trump’s South Lawn fight is its curious lack of ambition.

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Trump voters don’t care to defend institutions that they see as illegitimate.

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The two sides say they are close to an agreement to end a war that has left everyone badly bruised.

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But the case against this line of thinking is simple: Olivia Rodrigo.