1. How Donald Trump Broke With His Own Foreign Policy

2. The Early Days of American Imperialism

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

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

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

6. The Smear Machine

7. In America, Fake Patients Get the Best Care

8. Why Maduro’s Ouster Scares Tehran

9. The Maduro Indictment Appears Legally Solid

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

11. A High-Seas Gambit Humiliates Putin

12. How Complaining to Friends Became Controversial

13. Sometimes Athletes Just Get Lucky

14. Nostalgia for American Hypocrisy

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

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

17. Deadly Force on a Frozen Street

18. The Two Sides of America’s Health Secretary

19. What Is the Point of Congress?

20. A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota

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

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

23. Photos: One Year After the Los Angeles Wildfires

24. The View From the Palisades

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

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

27. Trump’s Heathen Heart

28. The Friend-Group Fallacy

29. Against Goody Bags

30. Foolery, Foppery, and Finery

31. I Lost My Library in a Fire

32. How Many Sea Lions Must Die?

33. The Attempt to Silence Veterans

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

35. The Venezuelan Opposition Has a Choice

36. The Accelerant

37. The Anti-Vaxxers’ Next Move

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

39. The Memes Are the Point

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

41. ‘Have Fun in Jail’

42. The Front-Runner

43. The New History of Fighting Slavery

44. Six Books for the Chronic Daydreamer

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

46. January 6 Was My Fourth Day on the Hill

47. The Triumph of Indecency

48. Is This What Patriotism Looks Like?

49. America’s U-Turn on Childhood Vaccinations

50. Is Greenland Next?

51. Hegseth’s Appalling Vengeance Campaign

52. Trump’s Retro Imperialism

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

54. Your Guide to Better Days

55. The Real Story That Sentimental Value Is Telling

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

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

58. The College Backlash Is a Mirage

59. The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism

60. What the Venezuelan Opposition Wished For

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

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

63. The Biggest Question About Venezuela

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

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

66. Trump: Delcy Rodríguez Might Be Next

67. January First

68. Trump’s Audacious Success

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

70. The Last Days of the Southern Drawl

71. A Romantic Comedy of Errors

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

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

74. American Justice Isn’t Supposed to Be Wrathful

75. The Messiness of a Post-Maduro World

76. Maybe Russia and China Should Sit This One Out

77. The Campaign Against Venezuela Is Incoherent

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

79. Books That Open the Mind

80. The Race for Global Domination in AI

81. Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela

82. Trump Books Aren’t Selling Anymore

83. Stop Talking About the Moon

84. Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine

85. The President’s Busy Holiday

86. Trump’s ‘Operation Iranian Freedom’

87. A Reading Resolution You Can Keep

88. What Dante Is Trying to Tell Us

89. The Future Albert Einstein Believed In

90. The People Who Marry Chatbots

91. Clear Your Counters

92. Reading Is a Vice

93. Just Break Your New Year’s Resolution Now

94. Trump Almost Has a Point About the Federal Reserve

95. After the New Year’s Eve Party

96. Iranians Have Had Enough

97. The Benefits of Reading a ‘Hard’ Book

98. The Question-Mark Mayoralty

99. Six Months Off the Street

100. The Cult of Costco

101. Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism

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

103. What to Read When Your Friends Are Out Partying

104. A Symbol of New York Is Gone

105. 31 Atlantic Stories You Might Have Missed

106. Keir Starmer’s Gift to the British Right

107. The Show Won’t Go On

108. New Year’s Resolutions Should Be Communal

109. The Year That Shattered American Science

110. Podcasts Ruined My Relationship to Music

111. The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work

112. The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025

113. 2025: The Year in Volcanic Activity

114. Why ICE Is Getting Away With It

115. How Mary Todd Lincoln Lands Totally Out of Context

116. North Road, Fall 2020

117. A New Take on the Distant-Dad Trope

118. Trump’s 2026 Resolution: Give People Money

119. Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2025

120. The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game

121. The Year in Food

122. 55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025

123. Good Intentions Gone Bad

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

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

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

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

128. The Most Memorable Advice of 2025

129. The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days

130. Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence

131. A Misremembered Working-Class Democrat

132. Where Stranger Things Lost Itself

133. Dusty Pillars

134. Netflix vs. Paramount

135. Is Victor Wembanyama Too Tall?

136. Watching Someone Fail Shouldn’t Be So Fun

137. How to Follow the Right Star

138. So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files

139. Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?

140. An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist

141. Stop Defending Bari Weiss

142. A Gravitational Lens

143. The Wrong Kind of Black

144. Why Did We Ever Watch To Catch a Predator?

145. Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again

146. The Writer Fueled by Life’s Randomness

147. What I Lost When I Gave Up My Catholicism

148. The Sound of a Charlie Brown Christmas

149. Friend, Neighbor, Military Target

150. God Save the Jingle

151. The Incredible Shrinking President

152. America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory

153. Companies’ ‘Wrapped’ Features Keep Getting Weirder

154. Do Your Parents Have a Screen-Time Problem?

155. America’s Schools Are Less Divided Than You Think

156. The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy

157. Distance and Perspective

158. All of the Power, None of the Fun

159. The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025

160. The Pro-Democracy Case for a National Theater

161. The Next Ozempic Is Already Being Sold Underground

162. How Romantasy Explains Pluribus

163. J. D. Vance Cozies Up to Anti-Semitism

164. What Bari Weiss Got Right

165. ‘It’s Very Controversial, but I Love Nick Fuentes’

166. Trump’s Vanity Fleet

167. The Perils of a Politicized Justice Department

168. That Was a Lot of Frozen Waymos

169. Only Timothée Chalamet Could Get Away With This

170. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: All Downhill From Here?

171. The Atlantic Announces Henry Grabar and Judith Shulevitz as Staff Writers and Chris Suellentrop as Senior Editor; Uzodinma Iweala Joins as Contributing Writer

172. The Atlantic’s Favorite Images of the Year

173. Trump’s Plan to Corrupt the Media Is Starting to Work

174. The Heart of a Tarantula

175. The Trump Administration’s Guide to Christmas Giving

176. Everything We Know About Rape Is Wrong

177. The Three-Step Guide to Fixing Affordability

178. CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump

179. AI Is Testing What Society Wants From Music

180. The Unifying Potential of Charlie Kirk’s Last Words

181. Trump’s Venezuelan-Tanker Gamble

182. The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump

183. Bowen Yang Made ‘Saturday Night Live’ Work for Him

184. Theft

185. Warped Space

186. The Honor of the Layward Brothers

187. The Return of the Antebellum Constitution

188. Nine Non-Christmas Movies to Watch During Christmas

189. The Island Without Time

190. What Is Actually in the Epstein Files?

191. The Art of Deciding What to Care About

192. The Cosmic Cliffs

193. Trump’s Reality

194. Avatar Changed Cinema—For About Three Years

195. The AI Billionaires Who Are Barely Old Enough to Drink

196. Trump’s Power Grab Over the Budget Is Breaking the Constitutional Design

197. Trump’s Favorite Number Is…

198. The Most Administration Ever

199. Epstein’s Victims Are Furious

200. The United States of Donald Trump

201. What Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Understand About Lolita

202. Like the Iraq War, but Worse

203. How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation

204. How the Grinch Stole Toyotathon

205. What J. D. Vance—And Many Others—Miss About American Anti-Semitism

206. Prediction Markets and the ‘Suckerifcation’ Crisis, With Max Read

207. Circles of Epstein Hell

208. The Sombrero Galaxy

209. A Peek at an Alternate Venice

210. Avatar Wants to Please Only Its Fans

211. How to Sell a Color

212. MAGA’s Immigration and Pronatalist Goals Are at Odds

213. Photos of the Week: London Fog, Scooter Blankets, Giant Snowman

214. The Botched Rollout of Trump’s Autism Miracle Drug

215. Millions of Americans May Soon Face Huge Costs

216. America’s New Rules on Weed

217. Trump Just Gave a Handout to Big Marijuana

218. When One Honest Politician Isn’t Enough

219. Guess the Real ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ Plaque

220. Climate Science’s ‘Global Mothership’ Is Crashing

221. A Cartoonist’s Complicated Search for the Truth

222. Three Reasons Old People Are Happier

223. A Spider Among the Stars

224. Why Manhunts Take Time

225. The Triumph of the Middle-Aged Athlete

226. How Warren Buffett Did It

227. Measles’ Most Deceptive Trait

228. Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment

229. The Music Industry’s No. 1 Fan

230. ISIS Never Really Went Away

231. What’s Behind the ISIS Attack in Syria

232. The ‘Filthy Little Slum Child’ Who Remade the American Right

233. This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like

234. Trump’s ‘Peace President’ Claim Isn’t Holding Up

235. 1,776 Checks for the Military

236. How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy

237. A Visit from Krampus

238. The Roomba Was a Disappointment

239. Distant Starbursts

240. The Misguided Temptation to Exaggerate Poverty

241. Democrats Sound Like They’re in Doha

242. Henry James’s Venice Is Still Here

243. The 14 Best TV Shows of 2025

244. The Iranian Regime Survived War With Israel. Now What?

245. The Vaccine Researcher Quietly Wielding the Axe at NIH

246. Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles

247. The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’

248. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Unto the Breach

249. The Commute Penalty

250. Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying

251. The Real Revelation in the Susie Wiles Interviews

252. The Bullseye

253. The Savage Empathy of the Mosh Pit

254. The Midwife of Black Nationalism

255. The Art of Airing Your Dirty Laundry

256. The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down

257. The Problem With Comparing Big Food to Big Tobacco

258. The Longest Suicide Note in American History

259. The Powerful Promoters of Global Anti-Semitism

260. The Dead Are Not Off-Limits for Trump

261. Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder

262. My Murdered Friend Eli

263. Speech Laws Won’t Help Australia’s Jews

264. What Does It Take to Reinvent Shakespeare’s Most Famous Soliloquy?

265. A Turbulent Lagoon

266. First We Grieve

267. American Anti-Semitism Is a Youth Movement

268. We Will Swim Again at Bondi

269. Inside a Flame

270. Making Corruption Rampant Again

271. A Physics Renaissance Is Coming

272. Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling

273. ‘The Sun Rises and Sets With Her, Man’

274. Coming Soon: Season 3 of Autocracy in America

275. What the Left Fails to Understand About Populism

276. The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach

277. SNL Knows Everything You’ve Been Up to This Year. Do You?

278. America’s Mass Shootings Are Adding Up

279. Ripples of a Galactic Merger

280. Why the Brown Shooting Felt Different

281. Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’

282. An Absurdist Film About the American Dream

283. The View From Inside the AI Bubble

284. I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes

285. A Sea of Galaxies

286. Trump’s Pressure on Ukraine

287. End the Year With Great Movies

288. Hong Kong’s Problem Isn’t Bamboo Scaffolding

289. How Not to Plan for War

290. The Fed’s Succession Drama

291. The Last MAGA Prisoner

292. The Indiana Vote Is an Inflection Point

293. Sam Altman Got What He Wanted

294. Trump’s Bizarre Chip-Export Own Goal

295. Do We Really Know How Isabel Archer Felt?

296. How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV

297. Trump’s Affordability Weave

298. A Barred Spiral

299. Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care

300. Ella McCay Is a Throwback to Simpler Times