1. The Shooter and the Prophet

2. Dear James: How Do You Keep the Writerly Fire Alive?

3. We Still Need Lilith Fair

4. Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2025

5. Inside Russia’s Musical Underground

6. It’s Not Just Netflix—It’s Your Entire Life

7. The President and His Television

8. Trump’s Grand Plan for a Government Shutdown

9. The Judaism I Thought I Knew

10. The Myth of the Campus Snowflake

11. Recognizing Palestine Is Symbolic. It Still Matters.

12. Trump’s Shortsighted Campaign of Vengeance

13. Today’s Atlantic Trivia

14. Why Does Hegseth Want More Than 800 Admirals and Generals in the Same Room?

15. A Revolution in Tracking Life on Earth

16. Fully MAGA-fied Christianity

17. The Blue State That’s Now a Bellwether

18. America’s Illiberalism Doom Loop

19. Syncretism

20. Diseducators

21. The Race to Save America’s Democracy

22. Juries Don’t Have To Accept Trumped-Up Charges

23. A Deceptively Peaceful Coming-of-Age Movie

24. My Own Private Frankenstein

25. What Teen Novels Are Capable of

26. Hegseth Summons Top Military Leaders to Washington

27. Can AI Predict True Love?

28. Nexstar and Sinclair Lost Their Game of Chicken

29. Why So Many People Understood Charlie Kirk’s Killing as Spiritual Warfare

30. RFK Jr.’s Obsession With the Past

31. The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy

32. Golf’s Very Loud Weekend

33. The Pentagon’s New ‘Don’t Ask, We’ll Tell’ Policy

34. A Rupture in One’s Sense of Self

35. The Comey Indictment Is an Embarrassment

36. Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll

37. Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail

38. Photos of the Week: Rainy Games, Police Pups, Beard Championship

39. The Enduring Thrill of a Secretly Shared Novel

40. Fentanyl Doesn’t Come Through the Caribbean

41. Assessing America As a Geopolitical ‘Good Guy’

42. The Comey Indictment Is Not Just Payback

43. Some Clues That a Recession Is Coming

44. Allen Ginsberg, Great American Poet-Buffoon

45. How Charlie Kirk’s Death Will Change His Message

46. What Republicans Could Do If They Really Want to Protect Free Speech

47. Jeffrey Goldberg Wins 2025 John Chancellor Award from Columbia Journalism School

48. If I Work Harder, Will You Love Me?

49. The New Gen-Z Dating Dictionary

50. Lower Than Cowards

51. Testing Teachers for ‘Wokeness’

52. When Illness Makes You Into a New Person

53. Is This ‘America First’?

54. Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine

55. The MAGA Media Takeover

56. America’s Zombie Democracy

57. Why Assassinations Shaped the 1960s and Haunt Us Again

58. The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology

59. Trump’s Strategy to ‘Make Memphis Safe Again’ Has Failed Once Before

60. Winners of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards

61. A Portrait of Southern Sexual Repression

62. So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action

63. Jimmy Kimmel Ran Right at His Critics

64. The Misplaced Nostalgia for a Pre-Vaccine Past

65. What, If Anything, Holds the British Left Together?

66. Trump Dares the United Nations to Mock Him Now

67. The People Who Are Still Convinced Kamala Won

68. Does Trump Really Think Ukraine Can Win?

69. Brendan Carr’s Half-Empty Threat

70. A Censored Rap Legend Has Advice for Jimmy Kimmel

71. Dear James: Is This Situationship Doomed?

72. Sure, Let’s Try Bribes!

73. Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise

74. Back to School in Gaza

75. Keep AI Out of Parenting

76. Flying Over My Battered Homeland

77. A Warning for Those Ready to Capitulate to Trump

78. Stephen Miller Wants America Even More Divided

79. Trump Just Out-MAHAed RFK Jr.

80. Trump Offers a Golden Ticket

81. Chatbait Is the New Clickbait

82. The Atlantic’s 2025 Report on Diversity & Inclusion

83. The Art of the Decline

84. The Tesla Diner’s Real Failure

85. Seven Books About What Corruption Actually Looks Like

86. The Rise of the Painless Tattoo

87. A Most Profound Transgression

88. Photos: The Last Residents of a Sinking Village

89. Democrats Don’t Seem Willing to Follow Their Own Advice

90. Control of the Fed Is About Much More Than Interest Rates

91. Trump Might Be Losing His Race Against Time

92. Sex Ed Should Cover Fertility Too

93. ‘2026 Is the Battlefield’

94. Sorority Madness

95. Seven Sunday Stories

96. A Crackdown on Dissent

97. ‘I Couldn’t Run Away From Being Monica Lewinsky’

98. How to Beat Impostor Syndrome

99. The 14 Movies to Watch Out for This Fall

100. The Trouble With Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico Takeover

101. The Kids Hit Hardest by RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Crusade

102. How Trump Describes America to New Citizens

103. What Robert Redford Knew About Winning

104. Sarah Topol Wins 2025 Michael Kelly Award for The New York Times Magazine Feature on “The Deserter” From the Russian Army

105. Publishing’s New Microgenre

106. Trump Just Undercut His Defenders

107. Have You Considered Not Polluting the Water?

108. A Block on Some Arms Sales to Europe, Courtesy of ‘America First’

109. A Rogue Nation on the High Seas

110. Photos of the Week: Adventure Pyramid, Albino Alligator, Emerald Lake

111. What AI’s Doomers and Utopians Have in Common

112. How to Think, Not What to Think

113. It’s Time for a New Two-Party System

114. David Letterman on the Threats to Late-Night Hosts

115. Kennedy’s Anti-Vaccine Council Is Going After the Easy Targets

116. OpenAI Acknowledges the Teen Problem

117. Mike Pence: Donald Trump Has Not ‘Changed the Republican Party’

118. David Letterman’s Jimmy Kimmel Reaction: ‘We All See Where This Is Going, Correct?’

119. A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing

120. A Movie Touching One Raw Nerve After Another

121. American Higher Ed Never Figured Out Its Purpose

122. A Government of All the Podcasters

123. Winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025

124. Spinoza’s Secret to Rising Above Criticism

125. How RFK Jr. Could Eliminate Vaccines Without Banning Them

126. Trump Opposes Political Violence Only When It Comes From the Left

127. This Won’t Stop With Jimmy Kimmel

128. The War Hawk Who Wasn’t

129. An Escalation in Every Way

130. Is Oklahoma Breaking Public Schools?

131. Why Anyone Believed the ‘Groyper’ Theory of the Kirk Assassination

132. The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose

133. The Proud Boys Love Cancel Culture Now

134. The Fed Rate Cut Won’t Be Enough to Appease Trump

135. Where to Find Reliable Health Information Without the CDC

136. The Last Americans Really Paying Taxes

137. The Preventable Return of Deadly Diseases

138. The Economy Is Turning Into a Black Box

139. The 2025 Audubon Photography Awards

140. The Art of the Prisoner Deal

141. The Dangerous Outbreaks That Could Rise on College Campuses

142. A Bleak World Without Women

143. The Thrill of Lying to Your Friends

144. CDC Employees on What Science From the Agency They Still Trust

145. Trump Isn’t Interested in Competing With China

146. The Irony of Using Charlie Kirk’s Murder to Silence Debate

147. The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

148. Autism Research Is a Chance for RFK Jr. to Take Pesticides Seriously

149. The New War on Weed

150. The Attorney General’s Attack on Free Speech

151. The Strange and Erotic World of Elon Musk’s Chatbot

152. Pregnant Americans Are Trapped in Vaccine Limbo

153. Why Are So Many People Convinced They Stink?

154. Dear James: I Was DOGE’d. Now What?

155. Robert Redford Made It Look Easy

156. How to Prevent Random Violence

157. The WNBA Superstar Who Left the Game in Her Prime

158. Understanding Zionism

159. ‘Society Neglects the Nuclear Threat at Its Peril’

160. The Greatest Fight of All Time

161. What Charlie Kirk Told Me About His Legacy

162. Awe Is Essential

163. Why Tesla Thinks Elon Needs More Money

164. This Is No Way to Make D.C. Safer

165. The Death of an Influencer

166. The Invention of Judd Apatow

167. Inside the Deadly Game of Drone Warfare

168. The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing

169. Nate Bargatze Needed a Better Bit

170. The Delight of a Surprise Emmys Win

171. Why Theme Parks Keep Getting More Extreme

172. In the Beginning, There Was the Word

173. MAHA Is Piling More Work on Moms

174. Five Nonfiction Books That Read Like Fiction

175. The Questions Kirk’s Assassination Raises

176. How People Make the Most of Their Mornings

177. Trump Has a Warning for Spencer Cox

178. Whither the Dictionary?

179. Christopher Rufo’s Cancel Culture

180. What If This Is a Turning Point?

181. The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician

182. Something Is Very Wrong Online

183. One of Utah’s Own

184. A Call for Peace to a President Who Isn’t Listening

185. Leading Democrats Are Condemning Charlie Kirk’s Murder

186. A Raw Depiction of What Panic Feels Like

187. Photos of the Week: Lunar Eclipse, Sandbar Cricket, Horn Dance

188. This Was Spinal Tap

189. The Fandom Fueling Netflix’s Most Popular Movie Ever

190. The Teacher Evaluation–Grade Inflation Doom Loop

191. The Influencer FBI

192. A Complex Portrait of a Contrarian Crank

193. The Venezuelans Cheering Trump’s Drug War

194. America’s Greatest Threat Comes From Within

195. Show Us Your Papers

196. The Awful Ubiquity of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video

197. Strawberries in Winter

198. Photos: Nepal’s “Gen Z” Protests

199. Political Violence Could Devour Us All

200. A Mad Scientist’s Morning Well-Being Protocol

201. Now Comes the Hard Part for MAHA

202. Kamala Harris Is Finally Creating Some Distance From Joe Biden

203. Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination

204. Rupert Murdoch Gets His Succession Finale

205. Trump’s Formula to Conquer the Economy, and Everything Else

206. Universities Can Abdicate to AI. Or They Can Fight.

207. Will Israel Destroy Trump’s Greatest Foreign-Policy Achievement?

208. A World-Changing Vaccination Campaign, in Photos

209. Charlie Kirk Was Trump’s Envoy to a New Generation

210. The Tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s Killing

211. What Happens to Diplomacy When You Try to Kill the Negotiators?

212. The Horrifying Assassination of Charlie Kirk

213. NATO’s Moment of Truth

214. Trump''s Military Rule

215. Russia’s Reckless Provocation

216. What It’s Like to Be Detained by ICE as a U.S. Citizen

217. At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies

218. Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI

219. Russia Is Losing the War—Just Not to Ukraine

220. A Big Show About the Little Things

221. The Atlantic’s October Cover Story: Jill Lepore on How the Radical Legal Philosophy of Originalism Has Undermined the Process of Constitutional Evolution

222. The Real Cost of Tariffs on India

223. How Originalism Killed the Constitution

224. You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself

225. The Government Wants to See Your Papers

226. Israel Attacks Qatar’s Relevance

227. RFK Jr.’s New Tylenol-Autism Whisperer

228. Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

229. Dear James: Where’s the Romantic Spark?

230. Debit Cards Are Taking Over

231. The Globalists of MAGA

232. The Millennial Seminarian Trying to Turn Texas Blue

233. New York NIMBYs Turn Against Democracy

234. John Cheever’s Secrets

235. The Metaphysics of Panic

236. The Intellectual Vacuity of the National Conservatives

237. Donald Trump’s War of Words

238. Trump Boxed Himself in With the Epstein Letter

239. How America Fell in Love With the Quarterback

240. The Writer Who Fled Literary Fame

241. The Job Market Is Hell

242. Gallery: Sudan''s Civil War

243. The Abundance Delusion

244. What Cities Actually Want from Trump to Fight Crime

245. Fear of Losing the Midterms Is Driving Trump’s Decisions

246. Summertime

247. Peronism on the Potomac

248. Are We in an AI Bubble?

249. Seven Sunday Reads

250. Do You Owe Your Dog Privacy?

251. The Trump Crypto Empire Is Growing Up

252. U.S. Adversaries Strengthen Their Bond

253. What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz

254. The Power of Not Caring

255. The ‘Weird,’ Relatable Life of the First Millennial Saint

256. The Man Who Taught Hollywood How to Dress

257. Why This Administration Can’t Fill Its Jobs

258. America’s Unilateral Disarmament in the Censorship War

259. Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

260. America’s New Vaccine Anarchy

261. The “Remarkable Ability” Many Dissidents Share

262. Not Everything Trump Does Is a ‘Distraction’ From Jeffrey Epstein

263. The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously

264. A Book That Only a Filmmaker Could Have Written

265. What It Costs to Be a Sorority Girl

266. Photos of the Week: Humanoid Olympiad, Finger Wrestling, Haystack Rock

267. AI and the Fight Between Democracy and Autocracy

268. Pete Hegseth’s Department of Cringe

269. A Different RFK Jr. Just Appeared Before Congress

270. Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

271. Photos: Back to School

272. The Mass Shooters Are Performing for One Another

273. Trump’s Quest for a Scary Prison

274. A (Somewhat) Definitive History of The Atlantic’s Punsters

275. The Enduring Influence of the Conjure Woman

276. How to Turn Anxiety Into Adventure

277. The Biggest Test for the Supreme Court Yet

278. The High School Reunion Will Never Die

279. How We All Came to Live in Taylor Swift’s Version of the World

280. Welcome to the Vaccine Free-for-All

281. The Military Wasn’t Built to Fight Crime

282. RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap

283. Triumph of the Insurrectionists

284. The Atlantic Festival Announces Interview with Mike Pence on Sept. 18

285. Goodbye FEMA, Hello Disaster Consultants

286. Photos: A Deadly Earthquake Strikes Afghanistan

287. I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

288. The Fight for Truth

289. The Marriage Effect

290. The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

291. The Wrong Way to Win Back the Working Class

292. The Trump Administration Gets a Serious Scolding

293. The Arrest That Demonstrates Europe’s Free-Speech Problem

294. Putin and Xi Are Holding the West Together

295. Dear James: I Want to Leave My Husband, but I’m Stuck Caring for Him

296. Trump Makes a Mess on Purpose

297. Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!

298. What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Kid’s Friends

299. The Neighbor From Hell

300. Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power