The Trump Administration's Dramatic Narrowing of Its Travel Ban
A new executive order issued on Monday tightens the scope of the controversial policy, excluding those who already hold valid visas.
A new executive order issued on Monday tightens the scope of the controversial policy, excluding those who already hold valid visas.
Rolling back Obamacare will require full Republican support in the Senate. Rand Paul—and others—could defect using a familiar political play.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of illegal raids and deportations that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Are we on the verge of making the same mistakes again?
Attempts to delegitimize Barack Obama are a classic page in the Trump playbook.
The outcome will shape the planet’s climate for generations.
They have options.
An excerpt from a feature documentary on LGBTQ refugees advocating for better representation and resettlement
The Supreme Court has sent the transgender student’s case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals following a new federal guidance letter on schools and bathrooms.
David Weil, an Obama appointee who headed up DOL's wage-and-hour division, reflects on the previous administration and assesses the early days of current one.
The long-awaited Republican alternative to Obamacare is due out this week, but the scramble for votes has already begun.
How to challenge Islam while defending its adherents
A day after the Trump charges “Nixon/Watergate” level misconduct by his predecessor, the administration says that “neither the White House nor the president will comment further.”
A new retrospective looks at a group of young photographers who infiltrated academic slide libraries with radical images of a changing city.
Madison Square Garden went partly silent Sunday night, and not because the Knicks are terrible.
Professors and students—many of whom emphatically disagree with Charles Murray—are concerned about attacks on his right to speak on their campus.
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?
Anxiety and listless days as a foreign-policy bureaucracy confronts the possibility of radical change
Calvin College is no fundamentalist Christian school.
A documentary about three of the 13 million unregistered people born outside the nation’s former one-child policy
In an animated interview, the scientist describes the importance of taking chances.
A documentary filmed over the course of 20 years tells the story of a disenfranchised community pushed out of their homes.
Director Ezra Edelman on how the football player’s commercial success became a beacon for African Americans
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.
Liberals must defend the right of conservative students to invite speakers of their choice, even if they find their views abhorrent.
Young, white, wage-earning voters are increasingly detached from religious and civic institutions. What does this mean for America’s political future?
In an early-morning tweetstorm, Trump accuses his predecessor of an unlikely scheme to undermine his presidential campaign.
The 2020 election is projected to mark the first time in more than 40 years that baby boomers aren’t the largest generation of eligible voters.
The new president is about to learn how difficult it is to get Congress to approve his spending priorities.
The need for Congress to figure out why he and his team keep misleading the public about Russia grows more urgent by the day, even if they are ultimately exonerated.
The alleged perpetrator is a former reporter who was fired for fabricating stories. He is accused of being responsible for only a small fraction of the threats made in recent weeks.
A new book by Tyler Cowen argues that when it comes to innovation and dynamism, the country is all talk.
After interviews with 200 senior business executives, Hal Gregersen of MIT found that one of the virtues of good leadership is listening properly.
Declines in manufacturing employment are shaping the structure of the American family.
A consultant whose firm helps businesses curry favor with the Chinese government has purchased a unit in the president's New York building.
The pursuit of efficiency led to plant closures in a small North Carolina town, illustrating how what’s supposedly good for consumers can often be bad for a community.
The retailer is having a tough time translating its trendiness and in-store experience to digital consumers.
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Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.
It’s often just a fancy name for a computer program.
Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian hacking inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.
In digital environments, the right to refuse service can be made invisible. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
At the country’s annual concrete expo, the machines are big and the future is uncertain.
Some drones are programmed to avoid restricted airspace—but it’s not hard to ignore the limits and fly there anyway.
Their style is less Richard Dawkins, more Christian missionary.
This week’s election could threaten a long-standing, uneasy peace
It’s not just the GOP. Political dominance has a way of sowing discord among those who hold it.
Seven years after abolishing mandatory military service, the country is now responding to “the security change in our neighborhood.”
There’s no consensus on the greatest ideological threat to the United States.
The vote is in response to the U.S. not extending its visa-waiver program to the citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland, and Romania.
A new CDC report begins to quantify the devastating effects the virus has on children.
In the battle against antibiotic resistance, salt might be a simple but effective weapon.
The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”
The prevalence of unpaid medical bills varies widely by state, but it affects the South disproportionately.
It’s believed that people on the spectrum don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs. New evidence suggests they do.
Choosing skimpier plans may work out for the very healthy or very lucky. Others would be stuck with large, unexpected bills.
There’s a psychological reason that people like to tweet pictures of cute animals with their political opinions.
Three researchers describe their findings in NASA’s study of identical twin brothers, one in space and one on Earth.
The region’s ecology is a product of 8,000 years of indigenous agriculture.
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
“We should be very thankful to those unnamed prisoners who saved those carcasses.”
They get less than any other animal, which leaves a jumbo-sized hole in theories about why animals snooze at all.
When one natural cycle falls out of sync with another, everyone pays the price.
Volcanic eruptions in Italy, Carnival celebrations around the world, an annular solar eclipse seen in Argentina, and much more.
Julianne Pachico’s remarkably inventive debut navigates what it means to grow up wealthy amid the reality of conflict in Colombia.
Kingsley Amis’s 1976 alternate-history masterpiece The Alteration is an overlooked—but timely—novel about the dangers of authoritarianism.
Jordan Peele’s fantastic film relies heavily on the sense of sight to amplify its racial horror.
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Ryan Murphy’s new FX series compellingly shows the sexist forces that pitted two titans against each other.
Jeffrey Blitz’s ensemble rom-com about a group of outcasts at a wedding is unfortunately staid and irritating.
In her new book, the author Lauren Elkin discusses the forgotten history of women artists who wandered the city and fought back against the masculine notion of the drifter.
At Central Michigan University, a group of college students from across the political spectrum meets every week to talk through their differences.
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For one, he will reportedly slash dollars from AmeriCorps.
Strong progress has been made to integrate students with disabilities into general-education classrooms. Educator instruction hasn’t kept up.
Racial diversity is rising in America’s suburban public schools, and many institutions are struggling to provide necessary resources.
The new documentary Teacher of the Year pushes against Hollywood’s hack-or-hero portrayals of the profession.
How and why the lovable, mistake-prone Grover was selected to teach children about science, technology, and math
“These works do not belong only to Arabs, Muslims or Palestinians. They are a heritage for everyone in the world.”
The images were posted in “Marines United,” a 30,000-member Facebook group for male-only active Marines and veterans.
Nearly two-dozen Jewish community centers and day schools in nearly a dozen states received bomb threats.
Peak bloom has typically fallen around early April.
This week, our “Americans at Work” photo essay features photographs of Melissa Eich, a speech pathologist in Charlottesville, Virginia, taken by her husband Matt Eich.
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.
Some people are taking steps now to prepare for a life without death.
In an animated interview, the author explains the problem with stereotypes.
The far-right politician is hoping to ride the populist momentum in the Dutch elections.
In a series of conversations, The Atlantic will explore civitas, the contract binding all citizens together.
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