Mainstream pop was going maximalist by overloading its production with digital whizbangery; indie rock had risen as a rawer ...

Today, as Israel finds itself locked in a multifront war with Iran and its proxies, Netanyahu is once again attempting his favorite trick: transmuting a national existential crisis into a personal ...

In the least charitable—and probably accurate—view, President Trump went to war with Iran out of a delusional faith in himself. He believed that the worst-case scenarios that have deterred past ...

About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which ...

Universities and their allies have been able to block many, if not most, of the White House’s moves in court.

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...

The technology may not be ready to replace workers, but that isn’t stopping execs from pushing forward anyway.

Jinqiao Yang and Meng Wang of Team People’s Republic of China celebrate victory in the wheelchair-curling mixed-doubles gold-medal match against Team Republic of Korea on day five of the 2026 Winter ...

Go looking for wind farms in Spain, and you might quickly end up in Castilla–La Mancha, a region southeast of Madrid. This is the place where Don Quixote, Miquel de Cervantes’s delusional Man of La ...

Like a strictly limited quantity of Marvel-branded Oreos, today’s Atlantic Trivia questions have dropped. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Well, until more arrive tomorrow. To play, type your response ...

These six books demand discussion—with a pal, a date, or a book club. This article was featured in the One Story to Read ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP—believe another. A common misconception is that it can ...