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Nicolas Bayou
A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
The collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets would be disastrous. A group of scientists has an idea to save them.
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Illustration by Chantal Jahchan. Sources: NATO Archives Online; …
What Europe Fears
American allies see a second Trump term as all but inevitable. “The anxiety is massive.”
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Olivia Joan Galli for The Atlantic
The Lynching That Sent My Family North
How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration
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Heather Sten for The Atlantic
The Art of Survival
In living with cancer, Suleika Jaouad has learned to wrench meaning from our short time on Earth.
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Illustration by Vartika Sharma for The Atlantic
Ozempic or Bust
America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise.
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Illustration by Tyler Comrie
The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
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Daniel Stier for The Atlantic
ElevenLabs Is Building an Army of Voice Clones
A tiny start-up has made some of the most convincing AI voices. Are its creators ready for the chaos they’re unleashing?
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Illustration by Vanessa Saba for The Atlantic. Sources: …
What If He Actually Did It?
I argued that Jens Soring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades in prison. Then I started having doubts about the case.
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Lila Barth for The Atlantic
How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter
He was the world’s most famous child star. Then he had to figure out what came next.
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Paramount Pictures / Everett Collection
The Godfather of American Comedy
The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks.
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Photograph by Jason Andrew for The Atlantic
The Accidental Speaker
What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?
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Sources: Courtesy of David Shribman; Wieland Teixeira / …
The Man Who Died for the Liberal Arts
In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailor?my uncle?wrote a letter home, describing and defining the principles he was fighting for.
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Frank Dorrey
The Homepage of the Black Internet
Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a lost era when social media was still fun
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Photo-illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Sefa Karacan / …
Clash of the Patriarchs
A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.
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Photograph by Sarah Palmer for The Atlantic*
Our Last Great Adventure
My husband, Richard Goodwin, drafted landmark speeches for JFK and LBJ. Late in life, we dived into his archives, searching for vivid traces of our hopeful youth.
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Nichole Sobecki for The Atlantic
‘This Will Finish Us’
How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland