“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long ...

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

The once-bustling corridors of the State Department are tomblike as ambassadors scrape for information. First published in The Atlantic on February 24, 2026.

All times are interesting times, but the summer of 2016 was especially interesting. That July, as a Twitter user named Katie Loewy tried to make sense of mass shootings and Brexit and the rising ...

Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without understanding what we even mean by the term. The first thing to know about pressure is ...

Others were presented as ornaments meant to illustrate Trump’s successes: Enrique Marquez, a Venezuelan political prisoner freed after U.S. forces deposed the strongman Nicolas Maduro, was given a ...

Having started Teach for America, back in 1989, and then Teach for All—a network of similar organizations across more than 60 countries—I’ve spent almost four decades trying to inspire young people ...

Editor’s Note: Read The Atlantic ’s related story, “Zelensky Makes His Pitch to Trump.” ...

Sunbeams through the windows illuminate floating dust motes—and, imperceptibly, microdroplets of mucus carrying the measles virus, expelled from an infected but asymptomatic child who is hopping and ...

Die israelische Armee hat bei nächtlichen Angriffen in der libanesischen Hauptstadt Beirut nach eigenen Angaben ranghohe ...

Tel Aviv/Beirut (dpa) - Israels Armee bombardiert nach eigenen Angaben in Reaktion auf einen Angriff durch die libanesische Hisbollah-Miliz Ziele im nördlichen Nachbarland. Man habe damit begonnen, St ...

Berlin (dpa) - Bahnchefin Evelyn Palla wirbt bei den Fahrgästen um Geduld für die begonnene Sanierung des maroden Gleisnetzes für weniger Störungen und Verspätungen. „Die Schiene in Deutschland in ...