1. The Trump Administration’s Affordability Messaging Is Confusing Americans

2. Your Phone Is a Slot Machine

3. Europe’s Red Lines Worked

4. Trump Casually Denigrates the Danish War Dead

5. The Oscars Are Trying to Be Relevant Again

6. The Upside of Professional Rejection

7. The Science That You Buy

8. Why Conservatives Defend ICE

9. George Saunders Has a New Mantra

10. Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

11. Gavin Newsom’s Record Is a Problem

12. The Real Fight for the Smithsonian

13. Democracy’s Doomsday Prepper

14. The Federal Government That Was

15. The Government’s Posts Just Took a Sharp Far-Right Turn

16. Trump Is Extremely Clear About His Plan for Greenland—Er, Iceland?

17. How to Tell If Your President Is a Dictator

18. When Family Secrets Create New Wounds

19. Trump’s Role Model for Seizing Greenland

20. America’s Crimea

21. Trump Seems Determined to Alienate His Allies

22. The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country

23. Why Trump Sides With Putin

24. Trump Can Prosecute Anyone Now

25. The Secret to One of Hollywood’s Most Enduring Friendships

26. MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus

27. Greenland, Davos, and a Flame-Throwing President

28. What We Learned About Trump This Past Year

29. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Nobel? Please, Prize Committee!

30. The Real Reason for the Drop in Fentanyl Overdoses

31. Casey Means Is Manifesting a Healthy America

32. ‘I’d Frankly Like Trump to Kill Khamenei’

33. American Democracy Is Showing Signs of Life

34. The Writer’s Secret Weapon

35. Trump Isn’t Losing the Culture War. But He’s Not Winning, Either.

36. The Presidential Powers Trump Is Neglecting

37. Trump Exhaustion Syndrome

38. The Attorney General Who Won’t Say No

39. The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal

40. Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

41. Democrats Need to Take Welfare Fraud Seriously

42. The Snow Monsters of Mount Zao

43. The Power of Private Museums

44. ‘Looksmaxxing’ in the Age of Trump

45. Minnesota Had Its Birmingham Moment

46. How to Understand Trump’s Obsession With Greenland

47. Harris’s Staff Questioned Whether Josh Shapiro Was an Israeli Double Agent

48. Every Nation for Itself

49. SNL Aces the Heated Rivalry Meme

50. I am here in the evening light

51. ‘Abolish ICE’ Is Back

52. America Has Lost the Plot on Milk

53. Trump Doesn’t Want Legal Immigrants Either

54. Was Infinite Jest Right About Everything?

55. Caption or Not, Trump’s Portrait Says It All

56. How Harry Reid Changed the Rules

57. Trump’s Billion-Dollar Board of Peace

58. The Surprising Relationship Between Happiness and Intelligence

59. Trump’s Mixed Messages

60. How to Not Think Like a Bot

61. America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster

62. The Real Allure of an AI Boyfriend

63. The End of the Underdog in College Football

64. A Former French President’s Prison Pity Party

65. From Stopping Osama bin Laden to Killing Renee Good

66. Remember the Epstein Files?

67. Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump

68. Trump’s Fateful Choice in Iran

69. The Problem Is So Much Bigger Than Grok

70. Taking the Internet Novel Offline

71. An Ancient Pastime With New Tools

72. The Iranians Who Feel ‘Betrayed’ by the Left

73. How Russia’s Children Got So Violent

74. Photos of the Week: Icy Dip, Resting Goose, Campaign Bear

75. The Question at the Heart of the Debate Over Trans Athletes

76. Weed Companies Are Cashing In on Dry January

77. Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off

78. How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption

79. The Danes Who Died for America

80. AI''s Child-Porn Problem Is Getting Much Worse

81. The President Who Cries Emergency

82. ‘Look, You Can’t Cancel the Election’

83. You Can Buy Canned Coffee With Food Stamps (But Only If It Has Milk)

84. The Provocation That Helped Create America

85. Zombie Movies Should Always Be This Hopeful

86. Evan Smith Joins The Atlantic as Managing Director for Events

87. Marco Rubio’s Empty Victory in Venezuela

88. Will ICE Get Away With This?

89. She Shook Up the Literary World, Then Renounced It

90. Democratic Bosses Are Launching a Remake of the 2028 Calendar

91. What Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrong About Democrats

92. Pity the Jewish Intellectuals of MAGA

93. The U.S. Military Can’t Do Everything at Once

94. What Trump’s War Against Wokeness Is Really About

95. Will Google Ever Have to Pay for Its Sins?

96. Jeff Bezos Needs to Speak Up

97. The Atlantic Introduces Premium Plus Subscription—With Family Sharing, Exclusive Coffee-Table Book, and Other Perks

98. AI’s Biggest Moment Since ChatGPT

99. Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit

100. Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal

101. Photos: Minneapolis Neighborhoods vs. ICE

102. Denmark’s Army Chief Has a Plan for Defending Greenland

103. Putin’s Explosive Message to Trump

104. How Doubt Became a Weapon in Iran

105. The Climate Question That Economists Cannot Answer

106. China Isn’t Leaving Latin America

107. Your Muscles Remember Your Strongest Moments—And Your Weakest

108. The Problem of Unregulated Homeschool

109. MAGA Thinks Maduro Will Prove Trump Won in 2020

110. Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This

111. None of This Should have Happenedd

112. Texas Sends Plato Back to His Cave

113. The Islamic Republic Will Not Last

114. The Crack-Up of Trump’s Base Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

115. The Internet Novel Is Growing Up

116. A Romance That Actually Takes Sex Seriously

117. How to Wake the Constitution’s Sleeping Giant

118. Who Gets to Be Indian—And Who Decides?

119. Sense of an Ending

120. How the Supreme Court Broke Congress

121. A Breathtaking Week of Pure Trump Id

122. The Candor of Jerome Powell

123. Some Other Things Donald Trump Will Probably Try to Buy

124. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Our Deer Departed

125. Bob Weir Made the Grateful Dead

126. The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking

127. Vance Knows What ICE Means to MAGA

128. The Court Case That Is Allowing ICE to Stop Just About Anyone It Wants

129. Trump’s Desperate Attempt to Bully the Fed

130. First Memory

131. Black Swan Was a Workplace Movie

132. Trump’s Shrinking Coalition

133. The Golden Globes Tried to Have It Both Ways

134. Timothée Chalamet Is Being Normal

135. The Purged

136. How Bad Bunny Did It

137. I Was Kidnapped by Idiots

138. The Most Shouted-At Politician in America

139. The Trump Administration’s ‘Magical Thinking’ on Cuba

140. Trump’s Greenland Threats

141. Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?

142. Big Oil Knows That Trump’s Venezuela Plans Are Delusional

143. Put Humans in Charge Again

144. This Flu Season Is Rough—And All Too Normal

145. The Messiness of Friendship

146. The Pitt Is a Brilliant Portrait of American Failure

147. America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein

148. Trump Is Not Playing Five-Dimensional Chess in Venezuela

149. The 17th-Century Philosopher Who Helps Explain Stephen Miller

150. This Will Happen Again

151. From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds

152. ICE Wasn’t Always Like This

153. AI’s Memorization Crisis

154. The Type of Comedy That Makes for Great Drama

155. Trump’s Unexpected Opportunity

156. How ICE Lost Its Guardrails

157. What a Fantasy Can Reveal About Real Life

158. Can We Save the Internet?

159. Trump’s Folly

160. Photos of the Week: Icy Hearts, Warm Beach, Raging Fire

161. An Expander in Every Child’s Palate

162. The Tastiest Meat Americans Can’t Buy

163. The Pentagon Has Axed Its Office of the Arctic

164. Federal Agents Are Violating the Rights of Americans

165. How Donald Trump Broke With His Own Foreign Policy

166. The Early Days of American Imperialism

167. Trump’s Slippery Definition of ‘Patriots’ and ‘Terrorists’

168. The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Millennial Power Lunch

169. I’m Not From the Government but I’m Here to Help

170. The Smear Machine

171. In America, Fake Patients Get the Best Care

172. Why Maduro’s Ouster Scares Tehran

173. The Maduro Indictment Appears Legally Solid

174. What the Second Law of Thermodynamics Reveals About Being Human

175. A High-Seas Gambit Humiliates Putin

176. How Complaining to Friends Became Controversial

177. Sometimes Athletes Just Get Lucky

178. Nostalgia for American Hypocrisy

179. Inside Donald Trump’s Attack on NASA’s Science Missions

180. ‘Aren’t We Supposed to Be the Good Guys Here?’

181. Deadly Force on a Frozen Street

182. The Two Sides of America’s Health Secretary

183. What Is the Point of Congress?

184. A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota

185. The Atlantic Hires Adam Harris to Host New Weekly Video Podcast

186. Why Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Such a Clown Show

187. Photos: One Year After the Los Angeles Wildfires

188. The View From the Palisades

189. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Be Declared Honorary Virus

190. Has Anyone Checked on J. D. Vance and Tulsi Gabbard?

191. Trump’s Heathen Heart

192. The Friend-Group Fallacy

193. Against Goody Bags

194. Foolery, Foppery, and Finery

195. I Lost My Library in a Fire

196. How Many Sea Lions Must Die?

197. The Attempt to Silence Veterans

198. A Trump Loyalist on the Verge of Immense Economic Power

199. The Venezuelan Opposition Has a Choice

200. The Accelerant

201. The Anti-Vaxxers’ Next Move

202. Someone Made a Lot of Money From the Venezuela Strike

203. The Memes Are the Point

204. The Big Story: Venezuela and a Warning for Other World Leaders

205. ‘Have Fun in Jail’

206. The Front-Runner

207. The New History of Fighting Slavery

208. Six Books for the Chronic Daydreamer

209. The Atlantic’s Jamie Thompson and Jeffrey Goldberg on Five Years Since Jan. 6: ‘Is This What Patriotism Looks Like?’

210. January 6 Was My Fourth Day on the Hill

211. The Triumph of Indecency

212. Is This What Patriotism Looks Like?

213. America’s U-Turn on Childhood Vaccinations

214. Is Greenland Next?

215. Hegseth’s Appalling Vengeance Campaign

216. Trump’s Retro Imperialism

217. @Grok, Did Venezuela ‘Deserve It’?

218. Your Guide to Better Days

219. The Real Story That Sentimental Value Is Telling

220. Why Authors Can’t Let Go of Greek Myths

221. Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing

222. The College Backlash Is a Mirage

223. The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism

224. What the Venezuelan Opposition Wished For

225. The Fuck-Around-and-Find-Out Presidency

226. Is the U.S. Running Venezuela or Not?

227. The Biggest Question About Venezuela

228. President Trump Totally Meant to Ask Congress Before Attacking Venezuela

229. Photos: The Venezuelan Diaspora Celebrates the Capture of Maduro

230. Trump: Delcy Rodríguez Might Be Next

231. January First

232. Trump’s Audacious Success

233. What Gene Kelly Taught Me About How to Be a Dad

234. The Last Days of the Southern Drawl

235. A Romantic Comedy of Errors

236. The ‘America First’ President Takes On the World

237. How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela?

238. American Justice Isn’t Supposed to Be Wrathful

239. The Messiness of a Post-Maduro World

240. Maybe Russia and China Should Sit This One Out

241. The Campaign Against Venezuela Is Incoherent

242. Trump’s Critics Should Not Go Wobbly Over Venezuela

243. Books That Open the Mind

244. The Race for Global Domination in AI

245. Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela

246. Trump Books Aren’t Selling Anymore

247. Stop Talking About the Moon

248. Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine

249. The President’s Busy Holiday

250. Trump’s ‘Operation Iranian Freedom’

251. A Reading Resolution You Can Keep

252. What Dante Is Trying to Tell Us

253. The Future Albert Einstein Believed In

254. The People Who Marry Chatbots

255. Clear Your Counters

256. Reading Is a Vice

257. Just Break Your New Year’s Resolution Now

258. Trump Almost Has a Point About the Federal Reserve

259. After the New Year’s Eve Party

260. Iranians Have Had Enough

261. The Benefits of Reading a ‘Hard’ Book

262. The Question-Mark Mayoralty

263. Six Months Off the Street

264. The Cult of Costco

265. Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism

266. A New Year’s Tradition From a Nation Long Dead

267. What to Read When Your Friends Are Out Partying

268. A Symbol of New York Is Gone

269. 31 Atlantic Stories You Might Have Missed

270. Keir Starmer’s Gift to the British Right

271. The Show Won’t Go On

272. New Year’s Resolutions Should Be Communal

273. The Year That Shattered American Science

274. Podcasts Ruined My Relationship to Music

275. The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work

276. The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025

277. 2025: The Year in Volcanic Activity

278. Why ICE Is Getting Away With It

279. How Mary Todd Lincoln Lands Totally Out of Context

280. North Road, Fall 2020

281. A New Take on the Distant-Dad Trope

282. Trump’s 2026 Resolution: Give People Money

283. Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2025

284. The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game

285. The Year in Food

286. 55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025

287. Good Intentions Gone Bad

288. Ukraine Sees the Future of Naval Warfare. Trump Doesn’t.

289. A 2025 Ranking You Won’t Read Anywhere Else

290. How About a Little Less Screen Time for the Grown-Ups

291. The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, But Not About Ice

292. The Most Memorable Advice of 2025

293. The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days

294. Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence

295. A Misremembered Working-Class Democrat

296. Where Stranger Things Lost Itself

297. Dusty Pillars

298. Netflix vs. Paramount

299. Is Victor Wembanyama Too Tall?

300. Watching Someone Fail Shouldn’t Be So Fun