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Rubio Won; Liberty Lost
Is it really a win when the regime you detest stays in place? Molly Riley / The White House / Getty In early 2019, Marco Rubio pressed his way through a dense crowd near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, his aides holding back refugees clamoring for a handshake or a photo with the man heralding
Do ICE Officers Have ‘Immunity’?
States don’t often prosecute federal officers, but they can. Octavio Jones / AFP / Getty Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts As often happens, Stephen Miller gave the locker-room talk, which was, more or less: No one can stop us. Back in October, wh
A Champion of Modernism, in Literature and Life
Margaret C. Anderson was at the center of a notorious literary-obscenity trial. Then she was forgotten. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Dick DiMarsico / Library of Congress; The New York Public Library. Many editors languish in the margins of history, their contributions largely invisibl
Democratic Bosses Are Launching a Remake of the 2028 Calendar
States are jockeying for an early spot and a greater say in the nominee. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The caucus gyms of first-in-the-nation Iowa transformed Barack Obama from curiosity to contender in 2008. Black-church networks in South Carolina handed Joe Bi
Elizabeth Warren’s Abundant Mistakes
Her critique of moderate Democrats is a mischaracterization of her opponents within the party. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call/ Getty. The Democratic Party has two competing plans to “pick up the broken pieces from the 2024 election,” claimed Elizabeth Warren, in
MAGA’s Jewish Intellectuals Helped Create Their Own Predicament
The nascent effort to contain the spread of anti-Semitism is years overdue. Laura Brett / Sipa USA / AP At a Turning Point USA conference in December, the podcaster Ben Shapiro delivered a speech that was hailed as the sort of moral stand one rarely encounters in the age of polarization. Confro
The U.S. Military Can’t Do Everything at Once
Hot spots around the globe mean a heightened risk that any retaliation succeeds. Andrew Renneisen / Getty Even with a nearly $1 trillion budget, the U.S. military can only do so much. Pentagon officials are privately warning that the United States may not be able to threaten Venezuela’s regime,
What Trump’s War Against Wokeness Is Really About
The president once promised to combat the supposed excesses of woke culture, but since taking office, he’s been dismantling something else. Bettmann / 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 idea
Will Google Ever Have to Pay for Its Sins?
A federal judge ruled last year that the tech giant had cheated publications out of ad revenue. Now those publications want their money back. Illustration by The Atlantic If the story of journalism’s 21st-century decline were purely a tale of technological disruption—of print dinosaurs failing
Jeff Bezos Needs to Speak Up
The raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is deeply troubling. Credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP When the government stomps on some once-inviolable right, it may be carrying out the next step in a concerted plan, or it may just be stumbling clumsily. The proper response in these moments
Move Over, ChatGPT
You are about to hear a lot more about Claude Code. Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Over the holidays, Alex Lieberman had an idea: What if he could create Spotify “Wrapped” for his text messages? Without writing a single line of code, Lieberman, a co-founder of the media outlet Morning
Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe
His irrational fixation on Greenland could lead to widespread conflict. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty; Miemo Penttinen / Getty. Donald Trump has a lot of odd fixations, both as a person and as a president. He tends to focus his tunnel vision on things
Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal
The historian Timothy Naftali on Donald Trump’s presidential library, comparing the many scandals of the Trump presidency to those of Richard Nixon’s, and Trump’s foreign policy of American weakness. Plus: a head-spinning week of terrifying crises, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Subscribe
Denmark’s Army Chief Says He’s Ready to Defend Greenland
Danish forces are moving to the island to show NATO—and Trump—that they’re serious about security. Taby Cheng for The Atlantic Greenland is 836,000 square miles, more than five times the size of California, and it’s mostly ice. President Trump has been threatening to commandeer the island, comp
Putin’s Explosive Message to Trump
The Oreshnik missile that struck Lviv carried a political payload. Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty On Friday, Russia attacked Lviv, a major Ukrainian city near the Polish border, using Oreshnik: an intermediate-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile. Security-camera footage captured brief fla
How Doubt Became a Weapon in Iran
AI manipulation, and the very suspicion of it, serves those who have the most to hide. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Andalou / Getty Updated at 9:54 a.m. ET on January 15, 2026 The protests in Iran are real. The country’s economic desperation runs deep, and millions of citizens wan
The Climate Question That Economists Cannot Answer
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic Most Americans now accept the basic physics of climate change—that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global temperatures. Ye
‘Some Foreign Influence Will Be Hard to Reverse’
China will remain a player in Latin America long after Maduro. Klebher Vasquez / Andalou / Getty In early December, as U.S. forces prepared for a possible attack on Venezuela, a Chinese navy ship sailed near the American armada gathered in the Caribbean. The CNS Silk Road Ark, a massive vessel
A Different Type of ‘Muscle Memory’
Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work. Bruce Gilden / Magnum Before Adam Sharples became a molecular physiologist studying muscle memory, he played professional rugby. Over his years as an athlete, he noticed that he and his teammates seemed to return to form after
He Was Homeschooled for Years, and Fell So Far Behind
A new memoir shows how a lack of accountability can hurt home-educated kids. Illustration by Tallulah Fontaine This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the early 1990s, when Stefan Merrill Block was in fourth grade, he began complaining t
MAGA Thinks Maduro Will Prove Trump Won in 2020
The capture of the Venezuelan leader has revived a debunked conspiracy theory. Illustration by The Atlantic In the days after American commandos raided Nicolás Maduro’s compound and whisked him out of Venezuela, Mike Lindell wasn’t ruminating about the dramatic military operation or oil prices—
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists. Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Will Elon Musk face any consequences for his despicable sexual-harassment bot? For more than a week, beginning late last month, anyone could go online and use a tool owned and promo
None of This Should Have Happened
The White House’s persistent escalation has laid the groundwork for more tragedies like Renee Good’s death. Stephen Maturen / 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 bes
Texas Sends Plato Back to His Cave
Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds. Thea Photography / Alamy Thomas Jefferson loathed Plato. In 1814, he wrote to John Adams that he had been reading the Republic and came away unimpressed: “Bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from
The Islamic Republic Will Not Last
But the opposition has to start working together if something better is to follow. Khoshiran / Middle East Images / AFP / Getty Under the cover of a total internet shutdown that has now lasted more than 100 hours, Iran’s security forces have unleashed bone-chilling brutality on protesters, kill