1. The Unaddressed Problem With the Pentagon’s AI Dispute

2. A Dramatic 24 Hours for Oil Prices

3. Meet the Nepo-tollah

4. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Movie Stars and the Middle Ages

5. Winter Paralympics Photo of the Day: Sled Hockey

6. I Believe California Has a Right to Exist

7. Who Gets to Claim the Kennedys?

8. A Dating-App Nightmare

9. The Pentagon Cut Its Civilian Safeguards Before the Iran War

10. A New and Confusing Study About Acetaminophen and Autism

11. An Air-Campaign Primer

12. How Christian Nationalist Became an Epithet

13. Books Are Meant to Be Slow

14. The Cynical, Gullible American Man

15. The Unbearable Lightness of Signalgate

16. The Power of Homeownership in New York

17. The Asymmetric Ways Iran Could Strike Back

18. Winter Paralympics Photo of the Day: Para Biathlon

19. The SNL Sketch That Broke All the Rules

20. Misrule Music

21. The Mind-Body Question

22. The Household Names Hollywood Has Been Seeking

23. Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

24. A Word for Our Troubled Times

25. Winter Paralympics Photo of the Day: Flying Downhill

26. Polymarket Is Going to Get Someone Killed

27. What Are the Trump Administration’s Objectives in Iran?

28. An Uncomfortable Emotion That’s Worth Feeling

29. The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President

30. The Elephant in the Movie Theater

31. Anthropic’s Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off

32. How Iran Could Retaliate Around the World

33. An Epidemic of ‘Victory Disease’

34. OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying

35. ‘The Bride!’ Is a Failed Experiment

36. Winter Paralympics Photo of the Day: Opening Ceremony

37. Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?

38. The Economy’s Warning Light Is Flashing Yellow

39. The Gulf Countries Are Facing Their Nightmare Scenarios

40. Did Netflix Ruin Movies?

41. Trump and Netanyahu Don’t Agree on How This Should End

42. The Iran War Has Given Lebanon an Opportunity

43. Six Days of War, 10 Rationales

44. Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction

45. America’s Next Top Model Groomed a Generation

46. The McCarthy Revivalists

47. Pete Hegseth’s Troubled Soul

48. I Don’t Know How the War Is Going

49. Photos of the Week: Death Valley, Steam Train, Cherry Blossoms

50. Would Trump Risk an Oil Crisis?

51. Why Trump Soured on Kristi Noem

52. A Current and Not-So-Short List of America’s Global Conflicts

53. Why Did No One Ask Ukraine How to Destroy Drones?

54. What Jay Bhattacharya Wants From the CDC

55. How Kristi Noem Lost Her Job

56. The McDonald’s CEO’s Big Burger-Eating Mistake

57. The Central Lie of Prediction Markets

58. Dinner Has Always Been a Problem

59. U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot

60. Talk to Your Doctor About Your Distrust of Public Health

61. ‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’

62. The Atlantic Announces Sarah A. Topol and Jenisha Watts as Staff Writers

63. A Western That Goes Where Cormac McCarthy Wouldn’t

64. Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’

65. Trump’s Unauthorized War

66. A War Begun on Instinct

67. Iran Is One More Humiliation for J. D. Vance

68. Things Are About to Get Ugly in Texas

69. Trump Has Lost the Plot in Iran

70. Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem

71. The American King Goes to War

72. Tesla’s Secret Weapon Is a Giant Metal Box

73. Trump Is Expected to Endorse Cornyn

74. Trump’s War With Iran and a New Danger at Home

75. The Coming Invasion of Iran

76. California’s Deadliest Avalanche Turned on One Choice

77. Nobody Made Trump Attack Iran

78. The Tyranny of the Relationship Gap

79. Is This the Best Use of American Missiles?

80. Trump’s Former AI Adviser Is Furious

81. What Anti-Regime Iranians Can’t Agree On

82. Dark Humor and the Iranian Resistance

83. A War of Stockpiles

84. The Last Days of Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

85. Finalists From the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards Professional Competition

86. A Very Stable War

87. Why People Shed Tears for Tyrants

88. Pete Buttigieg in the Wilderness

89. Vigdis Hjorth’s Family Secrets

90. The Disappearing American Mortgage

91. Leaving the United States Behind

92. In Defense of Effeminate Gay Boys

93. Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination

94. What the War Powers Resolution Actually Means

95. On the Chagos Islands, Trump Is Right

96. The Big Story: The Iran War

97. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Crack Open a Krating Daeng

98. Bibi Netanyahu’s Greatest Gamble

99. After Khamenei, What Now?

100. The Cost of Not Having Health Insurance

101. How America Lost Its Shine in China

102. The Most Sickening Twist in Industry Is Also Its Most Insightful

103. Literature Has a Stay-at-Home-Dad Problem

104. Hubris Without Idealism

105. Is ‘America First’ Over?

106. Cuba Is Next

107. America’s Invaluable Ally

108. Connor Storrie Knew What ‘SNL’ Viewers Wanted to See

109. Iran’s Likeliest Near Future

110. French 75

111. ‘I Have Agreed to Talk’

112. Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon

113. Why Khamenei Is Dead

114. Trump Rolls the Iron Dice

115. ‘The Worst-Case Outcome Is Complete Chaos’

116. The Death of Khamenei and the End of an Era

117. Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People

118. Iran Goes to War Against the Arabs

119. The Fallout From the Epstein Files

120. How to Create an Equal Household

121. The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack

122. Four Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives

123. What 1 Million of Anti-Racist Leadership Training Buys You

124. Wait—Laser Guns Are Real Now?

125. Trump and Khamenei’s War of Choice

126. Trump''s Presidency is Now in Iran''s Hands

127. Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran

128. Why Israel Wants to Wean Itself Off U.S. Military Aid

129. What Can the Texas Primary Tell Us About Democrats?

130. Donald Trump Declares War on Anthropic

131. Netflix Just Avoided a Huge Headache

132. ‘Elaine From Atlantic … She Needs to Leave’

133. The Undiplomatic Diplomats

134. How to Put Sex in a Novel

135. The Right Is Becoming What It Hates

136. An Iranian Network Is Ready to Act

137. What Do the People Building AI Believe?

138. How an Unlikely Duo Brought the Epstein Files to Light

139. Meta Says It Cares About Kids. New Documents Tell a Different Story.

140. What Developers Know About the Dangers of Unbounded AI

141. Love Is Blindsided

142. Winners of the 2026 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest

143. The Mind-Numbing, Soul-Crushing Boredom of Parenthood

144. Elon Musk Moves Against the Russians in Ukraine

145. Hegseth Wants to Make an Example Out of Anthropic

146. What Kind of Fighter Do Democrats Want?

147. The First Couple of a Dysfunctional DHS

148. How Much Control Should the U.S. Government Have Over AI?

149. The Rigor and Love of a Great Editor

150. A Presidential Problem of Canine Proportions

151. The Degraded State of the Union

152. Enough With the Bros

153. The Women Who Wanted to Be ''Hell on Wheels, or Dead''

154. When Did Literature Get Less Dirty?

155. Trump’s Favorite Voter-ID Bill Would Probably Backfire

156. Why Pick a Fight With Iran Now?

157. The Tariffs Loss Is Paradoxically a Win for Trump

158. How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

159. MAHA, Subdued

160. The Democrats Who Got Weird During the State of the Union

161. This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens

162. Is It Aging, or Is it ADHD?

163. When Caring Becomes Counterculture

164. Sherrod Brown Is Grinding It Out

165. Lucky Winner Mike Johnson Gets Dream Trip to State of the Union

166. Sephora Tots Are Coming

167. Energy Drinks Are for Girls Now, Too

168. Trump’s Childish State of the Union

169. Nine Books to Reset Your View of the World

170. The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month

171. The Gorsuch Tariffs Concurrence Is a Warning

172. President Trump’s State-of-the-Union Variety Show

173. Trump’s Chance to Turn Things Around Tonight

174. The End of Diplomacy

175. Photos: Four Years of War in Ukraine

176. Del Bigtree Wants His Kids to Get Polio

177. Tales From Kash Patel’s FBI

178. 250 Years of the American Experiment

179. Another Measles Death Is Coming

180. The Truth Behind Charli XCX’s Pivot to Hollywood

181. The One Thing AI Will Never Do

182. AI Is Unlocking a New Way of Doing Math

183. [Gestures Around] Is the Phrase of the Decade

184. Gavin Newsom’s Father Issues

185. A Careful GOP Midterm Message Delivered by Everyone but Trump

186. Trump’s Suddenly High-Stakes State of the Union

187. Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity

188. This Isn’t Trump’s Supreme Court

189. The Revenge of the Dummymander

190. Trump’s Iran Policy Does Not Add Up

191. Gen Z Women Are Having an Identity Crisis

192. High-End Construction Really Does Help Everyone

193. That 1930s Feeling

194. The Trump Administration Is Ending Humanitarian Aid to Seven African Countries

195. Two Portraits of My Father in a Tree

196. Frederick Wiseman Always Made His Point

197. MAGA’s Animal Nationalism

198. Different Views of the Winter Olympics

199. Schrödinger’s Snack

200. The Orality Theory of Everything

201. A Blockbuster That Understands Ambition

202. The Alysa Liu Effect

203. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Cross Jump

204. What to Expect from Trump’s State of the Union Address

205. What Would War With Iran Look Like?

206. The Crisis in Polling Is a Problem for Democracy

207. Books for the Busy Person

208. An Antidote to the ‘Blood Sport’ of American Debate

209. Why the Wuthering Heights Movie Is Infantilizing

210. What Pressure Does to an Athlete’s Body

211. A Conservative Court Refused to Be a Rubber Stamp

212. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Shredding the Halfpipe

213. The Supreme Court Delivers Trump a Humiliating Gift

214. The Tariffs Will Be Back

215. Winners of the 2026 World Nature Photography Awards

216. The Big Story: Signalgate, One Year Later

217. The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now

218. Our Olympians Are Being Put in an Impossible Position

219. The Washington Post’s Books Section Worked

220. An Extraordinary Account of a Dangerous Marriage

221. Don’t Discount Iran’s Internal Opposition

222. South Dakota Is Buzzing About Kristi Noem’s Future

223. The DOJ Can’t Keep Up With Trump

224. Let’s Talk About RFK Jr.’s Workout Pants

225. The ‘Hopeless Labor’ of Writing

226. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: An Uphill Battle

227. The Day Jesse Jackson Made Me Cry

228. Longevity Medicine Is Being Oversold

229. Why the Former Prince Andrew Was Arrested

230. Trump’s Backlash to Black History

231. Why We Can’t ‘Nudge’ Our Problems Away

232. Hitler in Greenland

233. Black History Month Is Radical Now

234. The West’s Winter Has Been a Slow-Moving Catastrophe

235. What’s Behind the GOP’s Push to Demand Proof of Citizenship to Vote

236. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Name That College Town

237. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: A Golden Smile

238. The End of Reagan-Era Republicanism

239. The Atlantic’s Nick Miroff Wins 2025 George Polk Award for Immigration Reporting

240. The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers

241. College Enters Its Chain-Store Era

242. Europe and Canada Are Like the Kids in an Ugly Divorce

243. Hegseth’s Firing Campaign Reaches Down Into the Ranks

244. Censorship Comes for the TV Talk Show

245. Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson

246. The Post-Chatbot Era Has Begun

247. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: In Pursuit

248. This Olympics Is Leaning Hard Into Mixed-Gender Events

249. Winners of the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition

250. The Republicans Made Peace With Science

251. How Toni Morrison Saw History

252. Seeing Ourselves in America’s Unfinished Revolution

253. How American Kids Got So Picky

254. Europe Has Received the Message

255. For Europe, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual

256. Marco Rubio’s Impressive Speech

257. Robert Duvall Was a Different Kind of Leading Man

258. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Snow Jump

259. The YouTuber Who Paid His Own Way Into Hollywood

260. The Founders Would Have Opposed ‘Nationalizing’ Elections

261. How Many Wolves Is Enough?

262. America Needs ‘Self-Evident’ Truths

263. 150 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1876

264. Crypto Is a Victim of Its Own Success

265. Why Young Voters Are Turning on Trump

266. Where Trump Went Wrong in His Quest for the Nobel Peace Prize

267. Marco Rubio Doesn''t Get It

268. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: On Target

269. Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History

270. Words Without Consequence

271. Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless

272. A Prequel TV Series That Surprises Viewers

273. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: A Victory Leap

274. The Most Sought-After Head of Government in Europe

275. The Rise of Stephen Miller

276. The 10 Indie Movies to Look for This Year

277. The Clash of Civilizations Was an Inside Job

278. An Enduring Assumption About Love

279. Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

280. The Internet’s Nihilism Crisis

281. Kristi Noem Watch

282. Why Europe Is Talking About Nukes

283. Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT

284. Trump Is Suing His Own Government

285. Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Soaring Through the Dark

286. The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’

287. Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Volodymyr Zelensky

288. Is AI Ruining Music?

289. The Blind Spot at the Top of the World

290. Matt Lauer’s Accuser Complicates Her Story

291. Photos of the Week: Plum Blossoms, Iron Fireworks, Carnival Queen

292. Most People Don’t Have a ‘Type’

293. First Jobs Matter More Than We Think

294. Putin Will Miss Pax Americana

295. Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake

296. How Not to Understand Slavery

297. Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly

298. What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval!

299. The ‘You Can’t Fire Me—I Quit’ Presidency

300. The Rise of the ‘Slave Power’ Conspiracy