1. Five Stories That Aren’t What They Seem

2. Why Can’t I Just Watch Sports on Television?

3. We’re Thinking About Young Adulthood All Wrong

4. Russell Brand Called Me a Nazi at Anti-Vaxxer Prom

5. Why Trump Gets Away With It

6. The Nick Fuentes Spiral

7. America Is Taking the Train

8. The Writer Who ‘Ingratiated’ Himself With Jeffrey Epstein

9. Galaxy Brain: The Internet Is a Misery Machine

10. The Atlantic Launches New Weekly Video Podcast, Galaxy Brain With Charlie Warzel

11. A Great Author’s Ongoing Struggle

12. Photos of the Week: Dachshund Day, Flying Fish, Wānaka Tree

13. Did Anyone Care About the Sex Crimes?

14. Stars—They’re Just Like Us (Depressed)!

15. Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor Greene

16. Humans Can’t Wrap Their Minds Around This Economy

17. When QAnon Meets Veep

18. The Scandal Trump Can’t Shake

19. 20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months

20. Doomscrolling in the 1850s

21. A Vision for Gaza’s Future

22. Hotel Cancellation Has Been Canceled

23. What the Trump Administration Is Missing About Animal Testing

24. An Evening Happiness Protocol

25. What If AI Is a Bubble?

26. What Tariffs Did

27. The Disappearance of Everyday Nudity

28. The Problem With ‘Moral Clarity’

29. What Really Happens After the Shutdown Ends

30. Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?

31. The Anatomy of a Texting Scam

32. Why Maduro Probably Can’t Count on Putin

33. Stock Up on Fancy Pasta Now

34. What the Climate Establishment Missed About the Gates Memo

35. Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury

36. Photos: The Northern Lights Put on a Show

37. MAGA Has Repulsed Young Women

38. Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever

39. A Warning From the Children of Chernobyl

40. Frankenstein Should Experiment More

41. All the Ostriches Must Die

42. What Democracy in Venezuela Would Require

43. Sports Leagues Are Falling Into the Gambling Trap

44. Now You Can Wear Your Vitamins

45. The Moral Cost of the Democrats’ Shutdown Strategy

46. Trump’s Secretary of ‘Loyalty and Money’

47. The Chinese EV Market Is Imploding

48. The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia

49. What a Cranky New Book About Progress Gets Right

50. Fantasy Racism

51. A Quiet American Papacy

52. Can a Person Decide to Die?

53. Why Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts Keep Failing

54. The Coolest Girl on Earth Seeks God

55. The Trump Administration Has a New Plan for Gaza

56. Why the Democrats Finally Folded

57. No More Mr. Nice AI

58. The Shutdown Vote Was the Real Test for Democrats

59. Today’s Instagram Trivia Answers

60. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Twain on Language

61. The Paradox of James Watson

62. The Show That Launched a Thousand House Tours

63. The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly

64. Ditch the Translation App and Use Your Mediocre French

65. What Actually Changed in 1776

66. What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century

67. Why They Mask

68. Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake

69. SNL Has a Cold-Open Fix for the Trump News Cycle

70. Love Song Set to a Tune of Gathering

71. Wheels Up

72. Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench

73. The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence

74. Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Won’t Fix Them

75. A Funny Book About Faith

76. The Deportees Whose Stories We’ll Never Know

77. What I Learned About Dick Cheney

78. The Democrats Try Out a Big Tent

79. How Lawmakers Are Responding to the Shutdown

80. When Scarcity Blurs the Line Between Right and Wrong

81. The Dreams and Limits of the Suburbs

82. All’s Fair Is an Atrocity

83. The Mafia Style in American Politics

84. Why This Shutdown Is So Dangerous

85. Pop Culture Is Obsessed With Female Friendships

86. Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control

87. Democrats, Mamdani Doesn’t Point the Way Forward

88. The Most Useless Piece of Parenting Advice

89. Photos of the Week: Dinosaur Sweater, Miniature Park, Hippo Calf

90. The One and Only Sammy

91. The Coming Swell of Scientists Turned Politicians

92. A Conservative Case for Feminization

93. Democrats Haven’t Solved Their Electoral Problem

94. Democrats Have a New Winning Formula

95. The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning

96. Just When It Looked Like the Shutdown Might End

97. Ozempic Is About to Go on Sale

98. Dick Cheney Didn’t Care What You Thought

99. Voters Who Oppose Wars of Choice Have Nowhere to Turn

100. A New Way to Look at the Pressures of Motherhood

101. What Worked for Zohran Mamdani

102. Zohran Mamdani Is About to Confront Reality

103. Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Playing Three-Dimensional Chess?

104. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Sayings and Showgirls

105. The Wonder of Watching People Run

106. America Is Great When America Is Good

107. American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret

108. What a Young Paul McCartney Knew About Growing Old

109. The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along

110. We Are Not One

111. The Missing Kayaker

112. Will 2026 Be a Fair Fight?

113. Why Venezuela?

114. Trump’s Gerrymandering War Has Stalled

115. Can Mamdani Pull Off a Child-Care Miracle?

116. America on the Brink of War With Venezuela

117. Trump Is Right: Ditch the Filibuster

118. Seeing the World Up Close

119. Why Is Colombia’s President Provoking Trump?

120. The Great Masculinization

121. The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges

122. The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

123. Understanding the Celebrity Fashion Diaper

124. Will the Supreme Court Side With Trump—Or Itself?

125. New York’s Unlikeliest Mayor

126. The People Who Will Determine Whether Musk Becomes a Trillionaire

127. America’s Hunger Crisis Could Be What Ends the Shutdown

128. The Food-Stamp Crisis Could Last Months

129. Introducing: Galaxy Brain Podcast

130. Two Unlikely Biopics About Unlikable People

131. Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care

132. Dear James: So Long, Farewell

133. There Was One Dick Cheney All Along

134. Venezuela’s Grim Prospect

135. No Easy Fix for Easy A’s

136. The Man Who Rescued Faulkner

137. The Inflammation Gap

138. Yitzhak Rabin Knew What Netanyahu Doesn’t

139. War Is Coming Back to Gaza

140. The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies

141. No Politics Is Local

142. Today’s Atlantic Trivia, Week 5

143. America, the Juvenile

144. The Ballroom Blitz Should Be a Bigger Scandal

145. A Third Term Is a Legal Problem With a Political Solution

146. The Stubborn Myth of the Literary Genius

147. Dude, Where’s My CarPlay?

148. The Lonely New Vices of American Life

149. To Catch a Clueless Hubby

150. Coyote

151. The Best Postseason in Baseball History?

152. What Mamdani Gets Right About Housing

153. The Helicopter Parent Goes to College

154. Everyone Hates Groupthink. Experts Aren’t Sure It Exists.

155. Mounting Pressure to End the Shutdown

156. How Delivery Ate the Restaurant

157. The Next Era of the American University

158. The Slow Death of Special Education

159. White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.

160. Tucker Carlson Opens the Door for Nick Fuentes

161. Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump

162. An Intimate Portrait of Humanity at Its Worst

163. How Trump Could End the Shutdown on His Own

164. J. D. Vance Needs Better Answers to the Right’s Anti-Semites

165. The Powerful, Unpredictable Nature of Fear

166. All Our Brilliant Friends

167. The Price of Canned Food Is Creeping Up

168. Israel’s Critics Have Canceled Themselves

169. Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention

170. The Writer Who Wanted Everything

171. Don’t Blow This, Baseball

172. Photos of the Week: Pumpkin Patch, Witch Paddle, Giant Labubu

173. Trump''s Plan Is Now Out in the Open

174. The Building at the Center of the Economy

175. Are the Democrats Overthinking This?

176. The Validation Machines

177. The Atlantic Announces Jonathan Haidt and Eugene Robinson as Contributing Writers

178. The Real Worry About Trump’s Deals With China

179. Traditional Values Came for TV’s Weirdest Dating Show

180. What ’70s Horror Showed America

181. Why You Should Keep an Open Mind on the Divine

182. What Ghosts Reveal When They Visit

183. The Last of the Literary Outdoorsmen

184. Strike First, Explain Never

185. Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

186. Why Journalism Needs Literature

187. Rahm Emanuel … For President?

188. Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons

189. What the U.S. Can Learn From China’s Technological Success

190. The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty

191. A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t

192. Would U.S. Generals Obey Illegal Trump Orders?

193. What’s the First Movie That Really Scared You?

194. Trump Does Not Want this Obamacare Fight

195. Winners of the 2025 Epson International Pano Awards

196. Headphones Changed Music Forever. Maybe We Should Change It Back.

197. The Government Is Closed. The President Is MIA.

198. The Year With Net-Zero Immigration

199. The Problem With Lottery Housing

200. Election Shenanigans Are Coming

201. Elon Musk’s Holy Trinity

202. The Obesity-Drug Revolution Is Stalling

203. The Atlantic Announces Adam Kirsch as Senior Editor and Luis Parrales as Staff Writer

204. J. B. Pritzker Wishes for Precedented Times

205. The Most Extreme Year for Atlantic Hurricanes in Two Decades

206. Canada Needs a New Bestie

207. New Mexico’s Free Child-Care Plan Has a Feasibility Gap

208. The Atlantic Promotes Krystle Champagne-Norwood and Emily Gottschalk-Marconi to Managing Editors

209. Dear James: I Can’t Stop Lying

210. Iraq’s Dangerous Deal With Iran

211. The Atlantic’s December Cover: David Graham and J. Michael Luttig on “The Coming Election Mayhem”

212. The Coming Election Mayhem

213. President for Life

214. The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China

215. How the Collapse of USAID Set the U.S. Back in Gaza

216. The Military’s Missile Defense System Cannot Be as Good as It Says

217. A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn’t Just Be Illegal—It Would be Dangerous

218. No One Actually Knows What a Moon Is

219. The California Election That Could Tip Congress

220. The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture

221. What Trump Could Learn From Ulysses S. Grant

222. Photos: The Colors of October

223. The Pentagon’s Version of Regime Propaganda

224. Leni Riefenstahl’s Chilling Obsession With Perfect Bodies

225. The Next Golden Age of the Death Penalty Is Beginning

226. Casting

227. This Is Not the NBA Crime of the Century

228. The Loophole Making Sports Betting Legal Everywhere

229. No One Knows How to Pull Off the Gaza Peace Deal

230. Seven Heist Movies for Your Weekend

231. The Age of De-Skilling

232. Trump Demolishes the East Wing

233. My Quest to Find the East Wing Rubble

234. The Pitfalls of Sleepmaxxing

235. How Wedding Sprawl Affects the Guests

236. AI Is Not Disrupting Hollywood—Yet

237. De-Prince Prince Andrew

238. What Progressives Keep Getting Wrong

239. One Crypto Tycoon Pardons Another

240. Trump’s White House Demolition Threatens the American Idea

241. The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela

242. The Shutdown Is a Knife at a Gunfight

243. The Thrill of a Great Sports Book

244. Seven Books That Will Make You a Better Sports Fan

245. Letters From John Updike

246. Prop Bets Must Die

247. Tortured to Death in Alabama

248. Why Guillermo del Toro made Frankenstein

249. How ‘Big Tent’ Are Democrats Willing to Go?

250. Photos of the Week: Miniature Beer, Foam Fight, Vortex Race

251. Why J. D. Vance Just Called an Israeli Parliament Vote ‘Stupid’ and an ‘Insult’

252. Free the Bride Tribe

253. In Praise of Jewel Thieves

254. Springsteen’s Boldest Album Deserves a Bolder Movie

255. Neither Party Seems Interested in Ending This Shutdown

256. Yes, Money Can Make You Happier

257. Jeremy Strong Knows His Process Sounds ‘Witchy’

258. College Conservatives Are Thriving

259. The Worst Art Thief in America

260. The Partisan Punishment of the Shutdown

261. Why I Run

262. China Gets Tough on Trump

263. Why I’m Not Freaking Out About My Students Using AI

264. The Realist Magic of Philip Pullman

265. This Movie Makes Nuclear War Feel Disturbingly Possible

266. ‘Screen Time’ Does Not Exist

267. The White House’s Favorite Influencer

268. The Group-Chat Presidency

269. OpenAI Wants to Cure Cancer. So Why Did It Make a Web Browser?

270. The Triumphs and Tragedies of the American Revolution

271. Can Trump MAGA-Proof the Shutdown?

272. Moscow Is Planning to Create Its Own USAID

273. Trump to DOJ: Pay Up

274. Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

275. What an Iranian Filmmaker Learned In Prison

276. A Counterpoint to Romantic Despair

277. The Deepfake Presidency

278. Holy Warrior

279. A Movie About Cancel Culture. Or Maybe Not.

280. Why Does Florida’s Beautiful Train Keep Hitting People?

281. The Internet Is Going to Break Again

282. My Car Is Becoming a Brick

283. Medicaid Is Preferred Here

284. Dear James: My Stepson’s Biological Dad Is a Terrible Human

285. The Lights of Diwali 2025

286. It’s Not Enough to Read Orwell

287. The Rich-Mom, Poor-Mom Happiness Fallacy

288. A Cease-Fire Is a Moment to Count the Dead

289. If Trump Wants Peace, He’ll Need to Go to War With Israel’s Hard Right

290. Steve Bannon and the Murderers and Hitmen Who Became His ‘Besties’

291. Why the ‘No Kings’ Protests Matter

292. AI’s Invasive Species

293. A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out

294. Trump Dumps Sewage on American Norms

295. No Kings, Only Decent Americans

296. Today’s Atlantic Trivia, Week 3

297. The Problem With Minimizing Chicago Crime

298. Ozempic for All

299. The Great Ghosting Paradox

300. The Recapturing of America