1. Keir Starmer’s Gift to the British Right

2. The Show Won’t Go On

3. New Year’s Resolutions Should Be Communal

4. The Year That Shattered American Science

5. Podcasts Ruined My Relationship to Music

6. The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work

7. The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025

8. 2025: The Year in Volcanic Activity

9. Why ICE Is Getting Away With It

10. How Mary Todd Lincoln Lands Totally Out of Context

11. North Road, Fall 2020

12. A New Take on the Distant-Dad Trope

13. Trump’s 2026 Resolution: Give People Money

14. Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2025

15. The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game

16. The Year in Food

17. 55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025

18. Good Intentions Gone Bad

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

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

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

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

23. The Most Memorable Advice of 2025

24. The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days

25. Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence

26. A Misremembered Working-Class Democrat

27. Where Stranger Things Lost Itself

28. Dusty Pillars

29. Netflix vs. Paramount

30. Is Victor Wembanyama Too Tall?

31. Watching Someone Fail Shouldn’t Be So Fun

32. How to Follow the Right Star

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

34. Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?

35. An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist

36. Stop Defending Bari Weiss

37. A Gravitational Lens

38. The Wrong Kind of Black

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

40. Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again

41. The Writer Fueled by Life’s Randomness

42. What I Lost When I Gave Up My Catholicism

43. The Sound of a Charlie Brown Christmas

44. Friend, Neighbor, Military Target

45. God Save the Jingle

46. The Incredible Shrinking President

47. America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory

48. Companies’ ‘Wrapped’ Features Keep Getting Weirder

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

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

51. The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy

52. Distance and Perspective

53. All of the Power, None of the Fun

54. The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025

55. The Pro-Democracy Case for a National Theater

56. The Next Ozempic Is Already Being Sold Underground

57. How Romantasy Explains Pluribus

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

59. What Bari Weiss Got Right

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

61. Trump’s Vanity Fleet

62. The Perils of a Politicized Justice Department

63. That Was a Lot of Frozen Waymos

64. Only Timothée Chalamet Could Get Away With This

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

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

67. The Atlantic’s Favorite Images of the Year

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

69. The Heart of a Tarantula

70. The Trump Administration’s Guide to Christmas Giving

71. Everything We Know About Rape Is Wrong

72. The Three-Step Guide to Fixing Affordability

73. CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump

74. AI Is Testing What Society Wants From Music

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

76. Trump’s Venezuelan-Tanker Gamble

77. The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump

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

79. Theft

80. Warped Space

81. The Honor of the Layward Brothers

82. The Return of the Antebellum Constitution

83. Nine Non-Christmas Movies to Watch During Christmas

84. The Island Without Time

85. What Is Actually in the Epstein Files?

86. The Art of Deciding What to Care About

87. The Cosmic Cliffs

88. Trump’s Reality

89. Avatar Changed Cinema—For About Three Years

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

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

92. Trump’s Favorite Number Is…

93. The Most Administration Ever

94. Epstein’s Victims Are Furious

95. The United States of Donald Trump

96. What Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Understand About Lolita

97. Like the Iraq War, but Worse

98. How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation

99. How the Grinch Stole Toyotathon

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

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

102. Circles of Epstein Hell

103. The Sombrero Galaxy

104. A Peek at an Alternate Venice

105. Avatar Wants to Please Only Its Fans

106. How to Sell a Color

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

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

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

110. Millions of Americans May Soon Face Huge Costs

111. America’s New Rules on Weed

112. Trump Just Gave a Handout to Big Marijuana

113. When One Honest Politician Isn’t Enough

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

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

116. A Cartoonist’s Complicated Search for the Truth

117. Three Reasons Old People Are Happier

118. A Spider Among the Stars

119. Why Manhunts Take Time

120. The Triumph of the Middle-Aged Athlete

121. How Warren Buffett Did It

122. Measles’ Most Deceptive Trait

123. Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment

124. The Music Industry’s No. 1 Fan

125. ISIS Never Really Went Away

126. What’s Behind the ISIS Attack in Syria

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

128. This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like

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

130. 1,776 Checks for the Military

131. How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy

132. A Visit from Krampus

133. The Roomba Was a Disappointment

134. Distant Starbursts

135. The Misguided Temptation to Exaggerate Poverty

136. Democrats Sound Like They’re in Doha

137. Henry James’s Venice Is Still Here

138. The 14 Best TV Shows of 2025

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

140. The Vaccine Researcher Quietly Wielding the Axe at NIH

141. Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles

142. The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’

143. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Unto the Breach

144. The Commute Penalty

145. Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying

146. The Real Revelation in the Susie Wiles Interviews

147. The Bullseye

148. The Savage Empathy of the Mosh Pit

149. The Midwife of Black Nationalism

150. The Art of Airing Your Dirty Laundry

151. The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down

152. The Problem With Comparing Big Food to Big Tobacco

153. The Longest Suicide Note in American History

154. The Powerful Promoters of Global Anti-Semitism

155. The Dead Are Not Off-Limits for Trump

156. Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder

157. My Murdered Friend Eli

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

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

160. A Turbulent Lagoon

161. First We Grieve

162. American Anti-Semitism Is a Youth Movement

163. We Will Swim Again at Bondi

164. Inside a Flame

165. Making Corruption Rampant Again

166. A Physics Renaissance Is Coming

167. Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling

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

169. Coming Soon: Season 3 of Autocracy in America

170. What the Left Fails to Understand About Populism

171. The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach

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

173. America’s Mass Shootings Are Adding Up

174. Ripples of a Galactic Merger

175. Why the Brown Shooting Felt Different

176. Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’

177. An Absurdist Film About the American Dream

178. The View From Inside the AI Bubble

179. I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes

180. A Sea of Galaxies

181. Trump’s Pressure on Ukraine

182. End the Year With Great Movies

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

184. How Not to Plan for War

185. The Fed’s Succession Drama

186. The Last MAGA Prisoner

187. The Indiana Vote Is an Inflection Point

188. Sam Altman Got What He Wanted

189. Trump’s Bizarre Chip-Export Own Goal

190. Do We Really Know How Isabel Archer Felt?

191. How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV

192. Trump’s Affordability Weave

193. A Barred Spiral

194. Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care

195. Ella McCay Is a Throwback to Simpler Times

196. The Best Albums of 2025

197. When ‘Therapy Speak’ Invades Actual Therapy

198. ‘Six-Seven’ Is Over

199. The Legend of Barry Bonds, Baseball’s Greatest Antihero

200. Hopeful Images of 2025

201. Why I Won’t Celebrate the Firing of Racists

202. Trump Confronts His Political Reality

203. Trump Accounts: Don’t Believe the Hype

204. Marco Rubio Has Spoken! Please Remove All of Your Woke Fonts.

205. I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

206. How to Be Happy Like Thomas Aquinas

207. Looking for Signs of a Black Hole

208. The Philosopher of Scraps

209. When Did the Job Market Get So Rude?

210. The Return of MAGA’s Favorite Forbidden Book

211. Why Indiana Republicans Are Standing Up to Trump

212. He’s Undocumented. She’s Not.

213. So This Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like

214. Trump’s AI-Regulation Ban Is a Threat to National Security

215. The Fight for Warner Bros. Is Also a Fight for Trump’s Backing

216. How to Stop Trump’s Plan to Steal the 2026 Elections

217. What Happened to Plain Old Allowances?

218. AI Business Deals Are Getting a Bit 2008-ish

219. The Apocalyptic Potential of the Netflix–Warner Bros. Deal

220. The War Moves From Ukraine to the High Seas

221. A Cosmic Tornado

222. Trump’s Toddler Foreign Policy

223. The Exiled Pop Star Who Unites Iran

224. John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True

225. The Most Impractical Tool in My Kitchen

226. Trump’s New Imperialism

227. 2025 in Photos: Wrapping Up the Year

228. Has Trump Lost the Physical Stamina for the Presidency?

229. Is This the End of OpenAI’s Supremacy?

230. The Atlantic and Prologue Entertainment Strike Exclusive First Look for Films and Series

231. USAID Hired the Right-Wing Influencer Responsible for Its Decimation

232. The Judiciary Won This Round

233. A Cosmic Cat’s Paw

234. Tiny Cars: ‘AMAZING!!!’

235. The 10 Best Movies of 2025

236. 2025 in Photos: A Look at the Middle Months

237. ‘Sudan Is a Good Place to Wage Peace’

238. Postcolonial Chicken

239. Bring Back the Neocons

240. The Most Egregious Double Standard in Sports

241. Dan Bongino Admits to Lying During His Pundit Days

242. Trump Finally Got to Host an Awards Show

243. Why Are Leftists So Pessimistic About School Reform?

244. Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Illegal Woodblock in the Back

245. A Strategy That Ignores the Real Threats

246. Sculpted by Stellar Winds

247. The Great Milestone Pileup

248. The Mystery of Mohammad Tajik

249. Mamdani’s Plans Rely on New York’s Wealthiest

250. The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable

251. The Dangers of Denying All Vaccine-Related Deaths

252. Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest

253. Private Equity Is America’s New Landlord

254. ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism

255. 2025 in Photos: How the First Months Unfolded

256. Keeping Your Friends Is Hard. SNL Knows Why.

257. A Warped View Through an Einstein Ring

258. Recall

259. Trump Is Repeating One of Biden’s Big Mistakes

260. As Ukraine Fights Corruption, Trump Does the Opposite

261. The Shell of a Dying Star

262. How to Approach Even the Hardest Family Discussions

263. Fallout From the Signal Report

264. The Mad Men Streaming Debacle Is a Strange Cautionary Tale

265. By the Horns

266. Rage Bait Is a Brilliant Word of the Year

267. The Origin of Hegseth’s Anti-Beard Obsession

268. Putin Lives by a Code Trump Doesn’t Understand

269. The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Very Bad Week

270. Is Affordability a Trump Priority or a ‘Con Job’?

271. ‘We Are Looking at a Massive Crisis’

272. The National Security Strategy Is Incoherent Babble

273. The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone

274. Debate Your Favorite Books of the Year

275. Play It, Steve!

276. When Chatbots Break Our Minds

277. Colorful Stars of All Ages

278. Is MAGA Becoming Pro-War?

279. The Trump Lawyer Scandal Is About Something Much Deeper Than Legal Technicalities

280. The Mystery of the Missing NFL Score

281. You Had to Be There

282. Top 25 News Photos of 2025

283. How to Read the Epstein Files Like an Expert

284. Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses

285. The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist

286. The Atlantic Announces Michael Leibel as Senior Editor

287. Chatbots Are Surprisingly Effective at Swaying Voters

288. The Long Line of Pessimists About America’s Schools

289. The Slow Death of the Prestige Thriller

290. The Perplexing Dominance of Self-Checkout

291. James Patterson’s Maxims for a Happy Life

292. Trump’s ‘Garbage’ Outburst

293. Hot Stars in the Lobster Nebula

294. ‘AI Psychosis’ Is a Medical Mystery

295. The Atlantic 10

296. Is This the End of Kids on Social Media?

297. A Cautionary Tale for Both Parties

298. Cattle Ranchers Are Beefing With Trump

299. Why American Health Care Is Still a Mess

300. Your Voice Isn’t Just Your Voice—It’s a Mirror