This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and ...
I needed a beverage—stat!—and had forgotten my water bottle at home. I ducked into a nearby CVS to pick up a drink. The ...
Still, each was a remarkable living symbol of a changing world. Although climate change remains overwhelmingly a destructive ...
Editor’s Note: The paper entitled ’The Man on the Bridge,’ dealing with dangers and difficulties in the management of transatlantic liners and published in the May issue of the Atlantic, has been made ...
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I first met Daniel Kahneman about 25 years ago. I’d applied to graduate school in neuroscience at Princeton University, where ...
“Sometimes it sounds like certain officials, it’s almost as if they support a hypothetical war, instead of the actual war ...
We use them most in bureaucratic contexts, but they’re more than mere legalese.
C ontemporary rural places are rendered all but invisible in the American public imagination; we are a nation that celebrates ...
The outsider candidate has money, a running mate, and a growing army of supporters determined to upend the election.
A Bad Gamble
Every major professional sports league prohibits players from gambling on their own sport, but most can gamble on other ...
The Notion of Family is an intimate, intergenerational exploration of the care that Black women show one another as ...