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A poem reflects on a persistent racist message tarred on a road, symbolizing how avoidance fails to erase deep-seated prejudice and its lasting emotional impact. 1 post
Three 2025 films depict 'Sad Art Dads'—career-obsessed, absentee fathers facing consequences for prioritizing art over parenting, exploring themes of regret, loneliness, and flawed fatherhood. 1 post
President Trump proposes cash handouts like tariff dividends and troop bonuses to address economic concerns, but economists criticize them as ineffective band-aids amid rising costs and unemployment. 1 post
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Britain Should Have Read the Tweets First
The case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah is a test of Britain’s values. Alastair Grant / WPA Pool / Getty How much effort should a country expend to rescue someone who appears to hate its values? That is the question posed by the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Abd el-Fattah is an Egyptian pro-democracy
The Show Won’t Go On
President Trump’s threats against artists who decline to perform at the renamed Kennedy Center are ultimately hollow. Celal Gunes / Anadolu / Getty In the opening scene of the black comedy The Death of Stalin, a violinist in Moscow is told her orchestra is giving a command performance for Josep
A Better Way to Think About New Year’s Resolutions
The best way to improve yourself is to help others too. FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty Nowadays, having a New Year’s resolution can seem almost quaint. Social-media influencers push self-improvement trends year-round: The spring has “glow up” challenges, as does the summer. Soon after, the high-d
The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science
Cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it through somewhat … okay. The Trump administra
The Podcast ‘Productivity’ Trap
Maybe don’t fill every available silence with the sound of people talking. Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Podcasts have devastated my relationship to music. Confirmation of that sad fact came earlier this month in the form of my Spotify “Wrapped,” the streaming service’s personalized
The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work
Artificial intelligence is destroying the career ladder for aspiring artists. Illustration by Albert Tercero One of the first sentences I was ever paid to write was “Try out lighter lip stick colors, like peach or coral.” Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I’d scored a copy job for a how-to
The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025
Reviewing Project 2025’s year of successes and shortcomings Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call Inc / Getty This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it her
Why the Supreme Court Is Giving ICE So Much Power
The Constitution inarguably applies to federal immigration agents—but the Supreme Court has taken away the hope of ever holding them to that standard. Sarah L. Voisin / The Washington Post / Getty Untold numbers of ICE agents have appeared on America’s streets in recent months, and many of them
Mary Todd Lincoln, Taken Out of Context
The challenge of staging Oh, Mary! for a British audience Manual Harlan By now, you will be used to the feminist practice of finding a historical woman and rescuing her from the clutches of evil biographers who have done her dirty. What if Marie Antoinette or Typhoid Mary were a more rounded fi
North Road, Fall 2020
A poem Matt Black / Magnum The vandals came at night Tarring the asphalt with the coward’s color. Their message—candidate and date— Reading both ways, at the bend in our road. The town’s crew tried twice to cover it, But the words bled through, defiant. We troubled ourselves and argued f
The Sad Dads of Hollywood
Three of the year’s buzziest films hold career-obsessed, absentee fathers accountable. Illustration by Lauren Tamaki If you went to the movies this fall, you probably met him: the Sad Art Dad. You’ll have known him by his miserableness; despite the flash of the cameras and the cheers of the gro
Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2025
Spend time with a selection of articles that resonated with our readers this year. The Atlantic This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
The Santa Presidency
Trump is trying to fix the economy—by handing out cash. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg / Getty. President Donald Trump can hardly conceal his disgust for the word affordability, referring to its ascendance in America’s political lexicon as a “hoax,” a “con job,”
The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game
For college-football fans, the playoffs are now everything. Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic* It’s been a hard month for the once-prestigious college bowl. Just hours after Notre Dame learned that it would not be included in this season’s College Football Playoff—the mega-popular, multi
Good Intentions Gone Bad
How Canada’s “reconciliation” with its Indigenous people went wrong Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Jing Lee / Alamy; Universal History Archive / Getty. Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET on December 28, 2025. Attend a public event in Canada and you will likely hear it open with a land acknowl
55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025
We’ll never look at potatoes the same way again. Illustration by Marc David Spengler The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing technology, studying the ubiquity of microplas
The Year in Food
How prices, tastes, and preferences changed in 2025 Johnny Miller / The New York Times / Redux This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.
A ‘Trump Class’ Folly on the High Seas
Ukraine sees the future of naval warfare. The White House doesn’t. Roman Pilipey / AFP / Getty Last week, Donald Trump announced a new class of U.S. Navy battleships, which will be named after him. The Navy said that the new warship type “will be the most lethal surface combatant ever construct
A 2025 Ranking You Won’t Read Anywhere Else
Salmon with Abraham Lincoln and Jesus, plus other hypothetical dinner parties from The Katie Miller Podcast Reginald Gray / WWD / Getty This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends th
How About a Little Less Screen Time for the Grown-Ups
It’s not just kids who can’t stop scrolling. The Atlantic Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Are your parents addicted to their phone? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel explores how technology is affecting an older generation of adults. Instead of a phone-bas
The Most Memorable Advice of 2025
Meditations on how to nurture and strengthen your relationships in the new year Katie Martin / The Atlantic The approach of a new year is an opportunity to reflect on time spent with friends, family, and partners who have played a role in your life—and how you can improve these relationships.
The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days
Each collection speaks to a different seasonal mood, but all are worth slowing down with before the new year. Harald Oscar Sohlberg / Bridgeman Images For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand a change in our ha
The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, but Not About Ice
As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary. Michael George When the Chinese cargo freighter Istanbul Bridge set sail for Europe in late September, it took an unusual route. Instead of heading south for the 40-day voyage thro
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential. Illustration by Ben Wiseman The first aphorism I ever read was on the Quotable Quotes page of Reader’s Digest, one of only two publications available in my house growing up. (The other was Time magazine.) I must have been abo
To Understand Today’s Left, Remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Can the late senator show his party how to win again? Steve Schapiro / Getty Updated at 2:23 p.m. ET on December 27, 2025 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died in 2003, might be remembered most for his erudition. During his 25 years in the Senate, Moynihan often turned the legislative chamber