She’s the Orthodox daughter of David Duke’s favorite candidate for president—and a perfect cipher for the anxiety of assimilation.
Pope Francis on Sunday declared the nun to be Saint Teresa of Kolkata, 19 years after her death.
A Columbia University sociologist found that customers’ complaints on Yelp had a lot to do with their area’s demographics.
“I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains,” —Vivienne Ming, a theoretical neurophysicist…
In the final installment of our series, a panel of education experts describes what evaluation and accountability look like in the perfect world.
In his coming-of-age book The Cook Up, D. Watkins writes about drugs, race, and class for audiences living in different Americas.
A reader writes: I’m really excited about these transformative cover songs—as an a cappella alumna…
Twenty years ago I published a book called Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy. The Atlantic ran…
One cybersecurity firm estimates that extortive attacks now cost small and medium companies at least $75 billion in expenses and lost productivity each year.
China’s capital is instituting a process for migrants to call the city their home. But who does it really benefit?
Highlights from seven days of reading about entertainment
Sorting kids by age or ability creates problems, according to our panel of education experts.
The Republican presidential nominee’s wife has sued a blogger and a prominent British tabloid over stories alleging she was a sex worker.
Even her B-sides are reliably great soundtracks for falling in love and going to the store.
The island of Vieques has some of the highest sickness rates in the Caribbean. Is the U.S. Navy responsible?
Early in 2014, I wrote a magazine article about the 1,300 residents of Eastport, Maine, with the title “…
Trump played on Americans’ fears, a new report questioned the UN’s relevance, Brock Turner was freed after three months in prison, and more.
The state is on the verge of adopting the most stringent carbon-emissions bill ever.
The presidential debates are fast-approaching, and last week, we asked who might make a good stand-in for Donald Trump in…
It’s the last long weekend before Congress is back in session.
The FBI has released its report into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, providing the most detailed account yet of why and how she used the system.
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
I’m dancing in my seat to this reader’s pick: Wilco’s “I Am Trying to Break…
The FDA is banning certain chemicals it says may have harmful side effects.
Over the eons, starting with a word processing program called The Electric Pencil back in the late 1970s, I’ve mentioned…
It’s not clear the organization can effectively confront—or even survive—today’s challenges.
In our ongoing conversation about the University of Chicago’s letter telling its incoming freshmen not to expect trigger warnings, this…
Derek Cianfrance’s film is gorgeous and well-acted, but it’s hard to invest in the two central characters.
The Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table: France explores the impulse to create culinary works of genius.
The first day of school in France, Mark Zuckerberg meets the Pope, a murder re-enactment in Bali, a Bavarian ox race, and much more.