The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.

Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind ...

Some coincidences feel a little too perfect to be random. You think about someone you haven’t spoken with in years, and they ...

You can drive a car even if you don’t have the expertise to manufacture one yourself, and I benefited from the pediatrician’s ...

The Kennedy Center Honors was once one of the biggest nights in Washington, which may not be saying much in a city that’s ...

On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss how the president is trying to maintain his control over the GOP as the election draws nearer.

Dappled gold and silver with a dozen distinct black lines that stretched from gills to tail, it would have been a gorgeous ...

If you want a snapshot of how the right has changed over the past decade, here’s one data point: MAGA activists think Sarah ...

When streaming gained traction as a primary listening option in the early 2010s, the genre’s artists and fans were slower to ...

Wright Thompson is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. On the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s death, the weapon used to ...

Douglas Smith’s The City Without Jews revisits the decimation of a robust community—and the city that betrayed it.