In 2002, most ambitious Democrats supported a Middle Eastern war. In 2026, most oppose it.

Phil Berger has been the most powerful person in North Carolina for 15 years. That wasn’t enough to save him from voters’ anger at incumbents and legalized gambling.

Shteyngart’s article is the latest in The Atlantic’s series “The Writer’s Way,” in which journalists and novelists follow the trails of beloved authors in the places that formed their work. Though ...

Micro-cheating includes all sorts of internet behavior that, to many people, might just seem innocent.

A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually ...

Bill Maher has been chosen to receive the award before the Kennedy Center shuts down for a two-year renovation.

Naturally, the Senate is debating none of those things. Instead, Republicans in Congress’s upper chamber are spending this ...

A recent killing of a neo-Nazi activist could bring France’s far-right party closer to power than it’s ever been.

Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, suddenly dunking their patients in ...

Project Hail Mary mashes up goofy antics with high-stakes space drama.

The most pressing question about the SAVE America Act is not whether it’s going to pass, but why President Trump and his allies are so determined to see the Senate put up a bill that’s doomed to fail.

If you’ve been following the Iran war, you will have heard about the surpassing geopolitical significance of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway responsible for carrying a fifth of the world’s ...