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In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
“It really comes down to a binary choice,” the speaker declared on Thursday, rejecting major changes sought by conservatives.
Why has the president decided to go all-in on the Republican insurance plan, and what will he do if it fails?
When a would-be reformer meets one of the most corrupt institutions in a country infamous for graft
Access to medical treatment may help solve unrelated, difficult societal problems, a study finds
The debate around the new French arthouse drama This Is Our Land says a lot about the rise of the country’s far-right.
A father-son team is working on a project in the Siberian Arctic called Pleistocene Park, where resurrected woolly mammoths will fight climate change.
Vice President Mike Pence declined to say whether he thought the president’s allegation is true, while the White House press secretary has insisted he won’t discuss the matter at all.
“When you’re in the opposition, you want to take his numbers down before you start talking about anything positive.”
Professional organizations are speaking up.
Income growth is faster at the bottom than at the top. Thank a growing economy, falling unemployment, and minimum-wage hikes across the country.
It’s easy to feel comfortable in a space that magically cleans itself.
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s Vietnam-era reimagination of the giant ape is just good enough to make you wish it were better.
Cassini has captured unprecedented views of the oddly shaped Pan during the spacecraft’s final weeks.
He has no evidence. He’ll successfully mislead people anyway.
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?
Florida has already pulled panthers back from the brink of extinction—but to keep them alive, people will have to be comfortable coexisting with the big cats.
Rarely, extending your neck over the ledge of a sink can cut off blood flow to the brain.
A 20-minute film takes us to Sevnica, Slovenia, now preparing for a tourism boom thanks to the 2016 election.
In a short film, 4-year-old Almas and 10-year-old Mustafa explain what it was like to leave Iraq for Oregon.
An excerpt from a feature documentary on LGBTQ refugees advocating for better representation and resettlement
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.
As right-wing parties across the West indulge fascist impulses, should the United States pursue a relatively restrictionist or libertarian policy?
A comprehensive guide to reported encounters between the president’s aides and Putin’s government.
In the latest entry in their ongoing conversation, two historians debate the significance of the president’s wiretapping claims.
Diversity among union members—particularly in race and occupation—translates to splintering political allegiances.
The president has energized his own supporters, and his attacks on established institutions have triggered a systemic immune response in the body politic.
Despite his boasts, the president built his success on his willingness to toss aside mentors, friends, and family members during moments of frustration and chaos.
A black medical student’s critique of selective colleges.
Peter Moskowitz’s new book on gentrification outlines how cities cede their power over residents’ lives to private interests.
The Nobel laureate Angus Deaton discusses extreme poverty, opioid addiction, Trump voters, robots, and rent-seeking.
The president’s business partners in the capital city of Baku have ties to corruption not only there but in Iran as well.
Inbox maintenance was taking up a lot of Dan Ariely’s time, so he decided to study it as he would anything else.
The bill wipes away Obamacare’s taxes, which fell most heavily on those earning $250,000 and up.
Do lucrative deals with advertisers have to come at the expense of users’ civil rights?
A new book by Tyler Cowen argues that when it comes to innovation and dynamism, the country is all talk.
Tell us your birthday, and we’ll show you how the world has changed since you were born.
You’ve already lived through enough to fill history books. Consider this a sneak preview of what those books might say.
Can a 3-D printed model of the organ change views on female sexuality? Yes and no. An Object Lesson
With its latest leak, the site is daring reporters to go on a scavenger hunt for scoops.
Descartes Labs lets you point-and-hop between features in China and the United States.
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.
The Knesset passed a law that would deny entry to some foreign activists who support boycotting the Jewish state.
More than a decade ago, Liberia made history. A new biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounts how.
Trump’s new executive order preserves the central problems of the old one.
The Trump administration hasn’t even faced a major foreign-policy challenge yet.
Ninety-two percent of citizen petitions filed against generics come from brand-name drug companies.
Though most old and sick people will be worse off under the GOP bill, it might be a boon—real or perceived—for people earning just above the Obamacare subsidy cutoff.
The proposed health-care bill has a different name for penalizing uninsured people.
The psychological roots of liberals’ Trump depression—and what comes next.
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.
Some ate woolly rhinos; some were vegetarians.
Exploring the galaxy will only give our problems more room in which to expand.
Even before they grew strong legs, their eyes surged in size.
The event has around 21 stated goals.
You've probably heard about your gut bacteria—now get to know your gut archaea.
There’s a psychological reason that people like to tweet pictures of cute animals with their political opinions.
The outcome will shape the planet’s climate for generations.
Six years after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the evacuation zone around the crippled nuclear power plant remains devoid of humans—but the boars have moved in.
Discovered 70 years after it was written, Claude McKay’s "Amiable With Big Teeth" depicts an overlooked time in African American history when global solidarity and black nationalism found themselves entangled.
Olivier Assayas’s new film stars Kristen Stewart as a grief-stricken Parisian fashionista who moonlights as a medium.
Mohsin Hamid’s striking, lyrical new novel explores how lives can be upended in the blink of an eye.
Dissecting a sentence from Smith’s story “The Embassy of Cambodia,” Jonathan Lee questions his own myopia as a novelist, and wonders how authors can be more engaged with the world around them.
The show’s current Donald Trump impressionist is signaling his imminent departure, and there doesn’t seem to be a backup plan.
Joan Didion’s South and West: From a Notebook is a 1970s-era artifact that has found its proper home in the anxious world of 2017.
The composer Ramin Djawadi leads a concert tour that’s less a musical showcase than a rewind through the HBO drama’s six seasons.
Sports programs at elite universities are not aligned with the institutions’ academic missions.
The generous Grand Rapids resident and the tone-deaf Trump official
The Kansas Supreme Court ordered the state to confront the inequality of its public-school funding.
In South Africa, student anger over tuition costs and access has bubbled over—and some observers say the tumult is a harbinger of worldwide unrest.
What happened at Middlebury last week marks a shift in campus activism.
For decades, the United States has welcomed and benefitted from international scholars—but President Trump's travel ban puts that legacy at risk.
At Central Michigan University, a group of college students from across the political spectrum meets every week to talk through their differences.
“In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Is it on the verge of doing so again?”
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.
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.
Finding clever ways to spy on people is what spy agencies are supposed to do.
The Atlantic will recognize grassroots innovators who are improving their communities from the ground up, and discuss what Washington can learn from progress made at the local level.
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