1. Millennials Need a Vacation From Family Vacation

2. Water, Bread, Boredom, Fear

3. The Markets Won’t Save the Fed From Trump

4. Trump’s War on DEI is Hurting Small Lenders in MAGA Country

5. Maybe a New Melania Magazine Cover Will Give Trump What He’s Been Seeking

6. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025: Highly Commended

7. The Natural Endpoint of Trump’s Falsehoods

8. Taylor Swift Writes Her Own Fairy-Tale Ending

9. Inside the USAID Fire Sale

10. The Lisa Cook Case Could Be the Whole Ball Game

11. Dear James: I’m a 19-Year-Old Math Nerd in Love

12. June

13. What’s Really at Stake if Fewer People Study the Humanities

14. Trump Loses a Lawyer—and Much More

15. Nick Fuentes Is Having a Moment

16. China Is Living a Utopian Lie

17. How Parents Hijacked the College Dorm

18. Go South, Young Jew

19. Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement

20. Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism

21. Trump Is Sending a Terrifyingly Clear Message

22. Modern Dentistry Is a Microplastic Minefield

23. Will Manatees Survive the Trump Administration?

24. A Parent’s Case Against Phones in Schools

25. Do AI Companies Actually Care About America?

26. How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes

27. Irresistible Contentment

28. A Better Way to Think About AI

29. The Real Reason American Socialists Don’t Win

30. How Reading to My Baby Helped Me Read My Baby

31. The Ultimate Lifetime Sport

32. Seven Summer-Weekend Reads

33. Trump’s National Security Purge Continues

34. College Sports Are Changing

35. The MAHA-Washing of American Groceries Has Begun

36. Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap

37. The Bolton Raid Feels Like a Warning

38. Nobody Likes John Bolton

39. What’s the Perfect Airplane Movie?

40. YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’

41. In Search of an 11th-Century Novelist in Kyoto

42. Bobby Hill Has Finally Grown Up. Kinda.

43. The West Bank Is Sliding Toward a Crisis

44. MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It

45. The Meaning of Trump’s Attack on the Smithsonian

46. New Jersey’s Most Notorious Dump Is a Model of Conservation

47. Photos of the Week: Monorail Rescue, Human Pyramid, Mountain Ritual

48. How Abortion Bans Hurt Maternity Care

49. Resilience in the Face of Russian Aggression

50. A MAHA Progress Report

51. ‘America First’ Does Not Mean ‘America Everywhere’

52. The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier

53. Donald Trump’s Perfect Museum

54. The Atlantic Announces Emily Bobrow and Katie Zezima as Senior Editors; Will Gottsegen and Jonathan Lemire Join as Staff Writers

55. COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far

56. Five Baha’i Lessons for a Happier Life

57. Photos: Driving a Century-Old Church Down the Road

58. What Trump Actually Wants From a Ukraine Deal

59. What We Gain When We Stop Caring

60. Trump Has No (Legal) Power to Mess With the Election

61. Peace in Ukraine Is Not a Real-Estate Deal

62. The Joseph McCarthy of the Trump Era

63. What Claire’s Once Gave Tween Girls

64. Bring on the ‘MAHA Boxes’

65. No, Democrats Don’t Need Their Own Stephen Miller

66. How ICE Became Trump’s Secret Army

67. Why International Recognition of a Palestinian State Actually Matters

68. She Has No Autonomy. Can She Be Happy?

69. Who’s Afraid of Gay Penguins?

70. A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

71. Trump Keeps Defending Russia

72. Trump Doesn’t Understand What Lasting Peace Requires

73. Scenes From the 2025 World Games in Chengdu

74. Dear James: Do I Need to Be Nice to My Aging Stepfather?

75. The Sword and the Book

76. The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH

77. The Growing Cohort of Single Dads by Choice

78. Spike Lee’s Self-Aware Brooklyn Satire

79. Let Squash Die

80. Europe’s Free-Speech Problem

81. Trump Buys More Time for Putin

82. Zelensky Wasn’t Going to Repeat His Oval Office Disaster

83. How Does Trump’s Federal Takeover End?

84. AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

85. Law and Order: Sandwich Crimes Unit

86. Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 Finalists

87. The Only Plausible Path to End the War in Ukraine

88. Disability Memoirs Have a New Purpose

89. Why Is Everything Spicy Now?

90. A Famed Director Tried to Build a Fan Base for His Movie. It Was Awkward.

91. The Mainstreaming of Zohran Mamdani

92. While China Builds, America Litigates

93. Paragraph

94. This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College

95. The Pull—And the Risks—Of Intensive Parenting

96. Trump Has No Cards

97. What the U.S.-Russia Summit Reveals

98. The Democrats’ Biggest Senate Recruits Have One Thing in Common

99. The Rise of ‘Cute Debt’

100. Trump Leaves Alaska Empty-Handed

101. Is Anyone Actually Mad About Sorority-Rush Dances?

102. The Feel-Bad, Feel-Good Movie of the Year

103. What Muriel Spark Knew About Childhood

104. The Tiny White House Club Making Major National-Security Decisions

105. Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said

106. Trump Gains When Elites Downplay D.C. Crime

107. The U.S.-Russia Summit Is Already a Win for Putin

108. What Elite Tech Students Are Learning from Poetry

109. Goodbye to All That

110. Photos of the Week: River Canyon, Mountain Brook, Cliff Bookstore

111. Europe, the ‘Sleeping Beauty’

112. Turns Out Meat Is Still the Ultimate Luxury

113. The End of Ford as We Know It

114. How to Make Life Feel a Little Nicer

115. The Centuries-Old Quest for “Genius”

116. Photos: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe

117. The Damage to Economic Data May Already Be Done

118. Trump Trades National Security for a Deal With China

119. The Limits of Recognition

120. How Leisure Gets Haunted by Work

121. How States Could Save University Science

122. Trump Is Having Trouble Prosecuting His Enemies

123. A Radical Answer to the Fentanyl Crisis

124. What Happened When Canada Gave Citizens the Right to Die

125. The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution

126. We’ve Located the Criminals in D.C.

127. Will Trump Get His Potemkin Statistics?

128. COVID Revenge Is Supercharging the Anti-Vaccine Agenda

129. Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights

130. Is This the Hardest Physical Contest in the World?

131. Why Housing Feels Hopeless

132. Nothing Is Scarier Than an Unmarried Woman

133. King of the Hill Now Looks Like a Fantasy

134. The Couple That Survived Four Months Floating in the Ocean Together

135. The Virtue of Integrity

136. Trump Forces His Opponents to Choose Between Bad Options

137. Trump’s Dreams for D.C. Could Soon Hit Reality

138. The Colors of the World, Seen From the International Space Station

139. Dear James: I Can’t Keep My Mouth Shut at Work

140. How Managers Can Use the Science of Happiness

141. Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap

142. Kari Lake’s Attempt to Deport Her Own Employees

143. Was Your Kid’s Report Card Written By AI?

144. ‘The Death Penalty Has No Place in This Country’

145. No Parents Allowed

146. Yes, D.C. Has a Crime Problem. It’s Different Than Trump Thinks.

147. The President’s Police State

148. This Isn’t About Crime

149. A Show of Weakness, Not Power

150. Extreme Home Makeover: White House Edition

151. The Facial-Recognition Sham

152. Who’s Afraid of Peak Mineral?

153. Israel and Gaza, Held Hostage by Fundamentalism

154. Are You Cowmaxxing?

155. The One Screen-Time Rule All Parents Should Enforce

156. How Not to Fix American Democracy

157. How Kids’ TV Turned Into ‘Preschool Tinder’

158. How Trump Threw Out the Pandemic Playbook

159. Inside the Fight Tearing Apart the Ivy League

160. Canada Is Killing Itself

161. Surface Support

162. The Judgments of Muriel Spark

163. The Making of a Trump-Putin Summit

164. Who’s Afraid of These Strange, Secretive Sisters?

165. A Novel That Skewers Meritocracy

166. Give the Moon a Big, Beautiful Base

167. The One Trump Flaw Most Americans Can’t Tolerate

168. CDC Staffers Saw the Violence Coming

169. How to Look at a Still Life

170. What to Expect From Trump’s Meeting With Putin

171. A Beach Read Can Be Anything You Want It to Be

172. How to Turn Your Power Plant Into a Gold Factory

173. Trump Is a Degrowther

174. The FBI Isn’t an Arm of the Republican Party

175. What’s Really Driving Netanyahu’s Decisions

176. The Last Food Dye Standing

177. Reading Mrs. Dalloway Again and Again

178. The Flaw in the Texas Democrats’ Plan

179. Trump Should Not Try to Revive Reagan’s Dream

180. America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy

181. Photos of the Week: Alligator Dip, Steeplechase Stumble, Friendship Day

182. Life Before Katrina—And After It

183. So Much for the ‘Best Health-Care System in the World’

184. The Man Who Could Unite Iran’s Opposition

185. Six Books That Explain How Flying Really Works

186. So, About Those Big Trade Deals

187. The Storm Before the Calm

188. The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race

189. A Political Game Could Redefine Voting in America

190. Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way

191. Trump Just Did What Not Even Nixon Dared

192. The Power of Politeness

193. The Epstein ‘Client List’ Will Never Go Away

194. The Stock Market Is Getting Hard to Explain

195. My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods

196. The Strange Calculus of Grief

197. Children''s Health Care Is in Danger

198. Israel’s Settler Right Is Preparing to Annex Gaza

199. The 48-Hour Fentanyl Clock

200. Trump Keeps Making the Epstein Saga Worse

201. How Democrats Tied Their Own Hands on Redistricting

202. The Fight to Plan America’s Birthday Party

203. The NIH Has Two Months Left to Spend Billions

204. Enough With the Mom Guilt Already

205. Your Tech Won’t Save You From Your Feelings

206. Ukraine Won’t Surrender

207. Could Captain Ron Cure My Fear of Flying?

208. Trump Is Sabotaging His Own AI Plan

209. The Atlantic’s September Cover Story: Anne Applebaum Reports From Sudan, “This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like”

210. Hegseth’s Headlong Pursuit of Academic Mediocrity

211. This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like

212. What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’?

213. Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?

214. The ‘Blood Libel’ Libel

215. ‘We Are Sentenced to Live Like This’

216. The Atlantic Announces Anna Holmes as New Contributing Writer

217. Photos: 13 Years on Mars

218. Dear James: I’m a Textbook People Pleaser

219. The Iranian Revolution Was an Accident of History

220. A Dispatch From the MAHA Future

221. Mrs. Dalloway’s Midlife Crisis

222. What Is Evil?

223. Why the White House Backed Down From Its First Big Education Cuts

224. A Terrible Five Days for the Truth

225. What’s Really Behind the Cult of Labubu

226. How the Muppets Helped Me Grieve

227. Flood Gaza With Food

228. One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood

229. The Pentagon’s New Isolationism

230. Trump’s Rule for National Parks: Only Mention the Good American History

231. Faith

232. Seven Reads for a Summer Weekend

233. Washington’s Quiet Work

234. This Is the News From TikTok

235. Israel Under Pressure

236. The ‘Slacker’ Teen Who Was More Than Just a Punch Line

237. The Powerful Consistency of Mail Delivery

238. The Culture Changed. Marc Maron Stayed the Same.

239. Trump Gets Rid of Those Pesky Statistics

240. A MAGA Attorney Hired Epstein’s Lawyer for His ‘Valuable’ Experience

241. Trump’s Irresponsible Nuclear Threat

242. Trump’s Self-Defeating Authoritarian Gambit

243. The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved

244. ‘We’re Trying to Do the Best We Can Before We Die’

245. Maybe an Action Hero Can Save Comedy

246. Turning a Hobby Into a Habit

247. What to Read If You Want a New Hobby

248. Nicotine Is in Unchartered Territory

249. Photos of the Week: Ice Factory, Cattle Race, Winding Path

250. Memoir of a Mailman

251. Floodlines Part IX: Rebirth

252. How American Power Should Be Deployed

253. The Warped Idealism of Trump’s Trade Policy

254. The Birth of the Attention Economy

255. The Man Who Was Too MAHA for the Trump Administration

256. Hamas Actually Wants a Famine

257. Three Ways to Stop Feeling Like an Impostor

258. The Big Story: The Happiness Files

259. Why South Park Did an About-Face on Mocking Trump

260. Potatoes Evolved From … Tomatoes?

261. Scenes From the 2025 World Aquatics Championships

262. ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check

263. Why Trump Broke With Bibi Over the Gaza Famine

264. ‘I Need This to Be a Homicide’

265. How Scientific Empires End

266. Can San Francisco Be Saved?

267. Republicans Want to Redraw America’s Political Map

268. Why Is Watching Stressed-Out People So Calming?

269. First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage.

270. Sally Jenkins to Join The Atlantic as a Staff Writer in September

271. Why We Should Care About Jerome Powell’s Job Security

272. Trump’s Tariff Disaster

273. What the George Floyd Summer Wrought

274. The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment

275. The Discourse Is Broken

276. Are Tax Cuts a Political Loser Now?

277. The Problem With Blaming CTE

278. Let’s Ban More Nonexistent Things

279. Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza

280. The Pentagon Against the Think Tanks

281. Dear James: Am I Wrong Not to Dwell on the Past?

282. A Novelist’s Cure for the ‘Loneliness Epidemic’

283. Are We Witnessing a Marriage Comeback?

284. A Casualty of Trump’s FBI Purge Speaks Out

285. How Trump Defunded the Higher-Education Police

286. The Corrupt Bargain Behind Gaza’s Catastrophe

287. How TV Warps Trump’s Worldview

288. Trump’s Desperate Move to Quiet the Epstein Scandal

289. The WNBA Has a Good Problem on Its Hands

290. The Death of Democracy Promotion

291. Homes Still Aren’t Designed for a Body Like Mine

292. The Pentagon’s Policy Guy Is All In on China

293. NASA and the End of American Ambition

294. Zelensky Went Soft on Corruption Because the U.S. Did

295. Preamble to the West

296. Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It.

297. Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight

298. The Politics of Going Low

299. A Gritty and Genuinely Readable Book

300. Trump Is Trying to Deflect Focus From the Epstein Case—Can He?