There’s a psychological reason that people like to tweet pictures of cute animals with their political opinions.
Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.
A new retrospective looks at a group of young photographers who infiltrated academic slide libraries with radical images of a changing city.
Rolling back Obamacare will require full Republican support in the Senate. Rand Paul—and others—could defect using a familiar political play.
They have options.
Professors and students—many of whom emphatically disagree with Charles Murray—are concerned about attacks on his right to speak on their campus.
A new executive order on immigration, the U.S. Supreme Court sends a transgender student’s case back to a lower court, and more from the United States and around the world.
A new executive order issued on Monday tightens the scope of the controversial policy, excluding those who already hold valid visas.
Madison Square Garden went partly silent Sunday night, and not because the Knicks are terrible.
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.
The far-right politician is hoping to ride the populist momentum in the Dutch elections.
How to challenge Islam while defending its adherents
The outcome will shape the planet’s climate for generations.
Liberals must defend the right of conservative students to invite speakers of their choice, even if they find their views abhorrent.
At Central Michigan University, a group of college students from across the political spectrum meets every week to talk through their differences.
Julianne Pachico’s remarkably inventive debut navigates what it means to grow up wealthy amid the reality of conflict in Colombia.
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 the current one.
The long-awaited Republican alternative to Obamacare is due out this week, but the scramble for votes has already begun.
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?
A new book by Tyler Cowen argues that when it comes to innovation and dynamism, the country is all talk.
Attempts to delegitimize Barack Obama are a classic page in the Trump playbook.
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon held a rally and promised he’d be cleared of corruption allegations against him, Mexico opens legal aid centers at consulates in 50 U.S. cities, and more news from across the world.
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.”
“This could set off very serious alarm bells in Beijing and Moscow.”
Kingsley Amis’s 1976 alternate-history masterpiece The Alteration is an overlooked—but timely—novel about the dangers of authoritarianism.
What does a decreasing attachment to religious and civic institutions in white, working-class America mean for the country's political future?
Their style is less Richard Dawkins, more Christian missionary.
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored why animals need sleep, the changing shape of American families, Mahershala Ali’s…
In an early-morning tweetstorm on Saturday, the president accused his predecessor of a 'Nixon/Watergate' wiretapping scheme against the Trump campaign.
This week’s election could threaten a long-standing, uneasy peace