"As a mother whose husband works long hours away from home, how am I supposed to stop taking care of my very young children? My closest family members live hours away, and my friends have children of their own to care for." (via Quartz)

"Where once you could run over to Jonny’s house at a moment’s notice and see if he could come out to play, now you have to ask Jonny if he has a couple hours to get a drink in two weeks." (from 2015)

“When we came to America, I thought America was a dream. Now I’ve got my own room so I don’t have to share everything.”

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone on this day in 1876.

When "The Birth of a Nation," the KKK-friendly blockbuster by D.W. Griffith, was released in 1915, a Boston-based African American newspaper editor named William Monroe Trotter began a movement against the film.

“We are living through the most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States in decades,” says David Frum.

David Baltimore, an American biologist and 1975 Nobel laureate turns 79 today. His life can be divided into two halves: before and after mass-produced personal computers. Know anyone else turning 79? Take a peek into their lifetime, from the vantage point of history.

"I like that America’s 'deep state' is opposing people I think are dangerous. But I also know that this, in principle, isn't very democratic," Hamid writes.

"You could read South and West, the book that is 'from a notebook,' as a rather strange entry into the Didion canon: notes that aren’t quite notes, stories that aren’t quite stories," Megan Garber writes.

The organizers of this annual competition have shared a shortlist of commended images from 227,596 entries from 183 countries.

The intensity of the opposition on Tuesday was striking, and it appeared—at first glance—to explain why it took so many years for Republican leaders to embrace a detailed legislative alternative to Obamacare.

Republicans have railed against many problems with the new health care law, but they aren't complaining about cutting taxes.

If the Islamic State can be driven from the city, its fighters will present ripe targets for U.S. and allied air power.

"This turn of events is not just of deep concern to me, but to all my fellow Americans who cherish our freedom to travel abroad."

Atlantic writers and readers have been challenging notions about age and experience since the magazine was first published. We want to hear your questions—and your thoughts on where to start finding the answers.