Cornelia Powers is a writer based in Washington, D.C. She covers books, culture, family, and sports. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Time, ...

On May 24, 1961, the Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. led a group of Freedom Riders on a 160-mile bus ride ...

Civic pleasure of having something to say, Posting: Joe told me back then it wasn’t him, He took the blame to impress a girl, ...

Alec Frydman is a carpenter in Laguna Beach, California. On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my ...

The framers of the Constitution were trying to prevent exactly this sort of corruption.

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“Swallow your pride and make the first move,” one reader says. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that ...

Altman was theoretically there to give one of the co-anchors, Colin Jost, some bad news about his tax returns. Instead, she ...

The legacy of one’s parents can feel like a prophecy, Faith notes. But we’re not all doomed to repeat our parents’ mistakes, ...

Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on movies seized upon the American film industry’s existential panic.

A shaman is a specialist who, through non-ordinary states, engages with unseen realities and provides services like healing ...

This week, Donald Trump returned from the first major foreign trip of his second term. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss what the president’s visit to the ...