When Does Contact Between the FBI and the White House Cross the Line?
The administration admits to asking the bureau’s deputy director to help it knock down a damaging story about the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts.
The administration admits to asking the bureau’s deputy director to help it knock down a damaging story about the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts.
Millions of Americans are worried that Donald Trump is an ominous figure. Investors have another theory: maybe not.
Waymo is suing Uber, and says a former employee stole nearly 10 gigabytes of secret files.
Meet the protesters who tricked conference attendees into waving Russian flags.
Celebrities are celestial because of Shakespeare. And because of Chaucer. And because of the weird workings of the movie camera.
The two movements are strikingly similar.
When President Obama left, I stayed on at the National Security Council in order to serve my country. I lasted eight days.
The films 4.1 Miles, Watani: My Homeland, The White Helmets, and Fire at Sea are all up for Academy Awards this year—and all deal with the migrant crisis or the Syrian conflict.
America appears to be pursuing four Mexico strategies at once.
Who will win at the 89th Academy Awards?
His team-up with Calvin Harris and Migos on "Slide" scrambles some expectations, but mostly just sounds like summer.
The more difficult the task, the less likely they will be generous.
The far-right candidate leads in French polls, but her challenges may prove insurmountable.
A pair of illustrators turned tiny blips in data into vivid views from the TRAPPIST-1 star system.
Since 1857, The Atlantic has been challenging established answers with tough questions. Here, Michael K. Williams wrestles with one of his own: Is he being typecast?
Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver.
Tucker Carlson’s latest reinvention is guided by a simple principle—a staunch aversion to whatever his right-minded neighbors believe.
Philip Carlson was the agent who signed Philip Seymour Hoffman and Claire Danes. In a short film, he describes his love for the industry.
A colorful short film follows a troupe of young people from London as they get ready for the festival.
In an animated interview, the author explains the problem with stereotypes.
Some people are taking steps now to prepare for a life without death.
A short film tells the story of an offensive lineman who’s looking for his next team.
In a short film, a young woman wonders if she'll be able to go to college.
Two top White House advisers put on a show of unity at a conservative conference, in a dialogue that served to highlight their differences.
The president appears to be considering a border adjustment tax, which many economists favor. But its supporters warn it won’t give him what he wants.
The state legislature nearly reversed Governor Sam Brownback’s signature policy after a voter rebellion. His economic legacy, one GOP lawmaker says, “is going down in flames.”
Some Republicans want fewer immigrants of any stripe.
The Departments of Education and Justice released revised guidelines on how schools should handle gender-identity issues.
In response, some GOP members of Congress are attempting to show sympathy for voter concerns.
The administration’s plan to force undocumented immigrants out of the U.S. largely hinges on America’s increasingly tense relationship with its southern neighbor.
Exporters and importers are at odds over the proposal.
A semi-comprehensive list of the business concerns that may influence the president during his time in office
A conversation with Jeffrey D. Sachs, the renowned professor and author, about the future of prosperity and the end of us-versus-them politics
Last week, the president resolved a decade-long legal battle—and added another entry to the long list of his conflicts of interest.
Consolidated corporate power is keeping many products’ prices high and quality low. Why aren’t more politicians opposing it?
Even when a relatively small number of people participate
18-30 grams of protein and a lot of internalized ideas about masculinity per serving
No one knows why Ojen became so popular in the city, but it has long been the party liqueur of choice. An Object Lesson.
A Google-funded algorithm flags messages that are likely to drive others away from a conversation.
A new class of machines knows how to recognize and investigate unexpected things that pop up underwater.
A senator has joined human-rights groups in opposing warrantless scans of travelers' digital devices.
The murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, involved the use of VX nerve agent, one of the deadliest chemical substances on earth.
His death has punctured the myth of the Kims' holy bloodline.
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“The question confronting us as a nation is as consequential as any we have faced since the late 1940s,” a group of Republican and Democratic experts write.
The Italian philosopher Julius Evola is an unlikely hero for defenders of the “Judeo-Christian West.”
“I’ve never seen anything quite like” Trump’s approach to national security, says a former counterterrorism adviser to three presidents.
The International Organization for Migration said 110 people were onboard the dinghy when it departed Saturday from Sabratha, in western Libya.
Advances during the “first mass killing of the 20th century” have saved countless lives since.
A new report explores why those who benefitted from Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion supported the man who promised to reverse it.
Many women want to stop their periods while in the field, but getting the means to do so can be difficult.
How differences fundamentally shape even our smallest rituals
How a low dose of electrical current is helping some patients overcome tiredness and cognition problems
Cheap, easy-made prosthetics could address a major need in developing nations.
Yet another failed drug trial has prompted soul-searching about the “amyloid hypothesis.”
A pair of illustrators turned tiny blips in data into vivid views from the TRAPPIST-1 star system.
The weather is nice, but it reminds us of the problems to come.
“Nothing short of calling the army is going to put it right,” an Irish politician recently said of the shrub’s takeover of a national park.
And all of them are in the temperate zone.
A new approach to treating eczema harnesses the defensive bacteria that already live on us.
In a supposedly safe national park, poachers have slaughtered 80 percent of these elusive animals in just ten years.
Flooding in California, unrest at town hall meetings across the U.S., the Naked Man Festival in Japan, continued fighting in Iraq and Syria, the end of a long-term protest in North Dakota, horse racing on a frozen Swiss lake, and much more.
Macon Blair’s directorial debut, a big winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, swerves wildly between indie comedy and ultra-violence.
The Fences actor might collect his third Oscar this year, an achievement only attained by a handful of Hollywood’s biggest icons.
Neil Gaiman’s remarkable new book has triggered a debate about who, exactly, owns pagan tales.
The Key & Peele comedian Jordan Peele makes a confident, richly textured debut as a writer and director.
The Oscar-nominated documentary offers a compelling portrait of how the migration crisis affects, and doesn’t affect, a tiny island off the Italian coast.
She can’t seem to get her music or politics evaluated without a mention of her supposed rival Taylor Swift.
The Oscar-nominated Manchester by the Sea director has a long history of portraying the lives of doormen, janitors, and waiters. But he seems uninterested in social change on their behalf.
In Finland, students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.
The former Homeland Security secretary once oversaw the deportation of more than 2.5 million undocumented immigrants.
The industry refuses to acknowledge its success is predicated on inequality.
According to a new study, Latino kindergarteners are about three months behind their white peers in math.
The novels offer more than a good story—they can also be integral to critical-thinking skills, especially during periods of political turmoil.
An immigration-law expert chimes in on how the recent detention of Daniel Ramirez Medina could affect students around the country who still benefit from the Obama-era policy
“His platform included, in part, declaring aging a disease.”
Officials say it's the worst flood to hit Silicon Valley in nearly a decade.
The U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, overturns a death-penalty sentence after an expert witness testified the defendant was more likely to commit future crimes because he is black.
This week, our “Americans at Work” photo essay features photographs of millennial freelancers living in Los Angeles made by photographer Jessica Chou.
The president railed against intelligence leaks and lambasted the media.
The six-year-old became one of the country’s most infamous missing children after he disappeared from Manhattan’s SoHo district nearly four decades ago.
Drought, climate change, and aging infrastructure combined to create a looming catastrophe that forced 188,000 Californians to evacuate.
In a short film, people explain why they choose particular messages to display.
In a short documentary, a former KKK leader reconnects with the African American woman who helped raise him.
Why a Christian wants to rescue Islamic artifacts
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