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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
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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
Where ‘Stranger Things’ Lost Itself
The Netflix drama’s final season settles for “compulsively watchable.” Is that all we get? Netflix This article contains spoilers through the penultimate episode of Stranger Things Season 5. In the third season of Stranger Things, Eleven (played by Millie Bobby Brown) learned a pivotal les
Watching Someone Fail Shouldn’t Be So Fun
In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet delivers both cringe and charisma. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: A24; A24 / Everett Collection. Marty Mauser cannot stop the hustle. In Marty Supreme’s electrifying opening moments, the audience is introduced to the wiry 20-something (played by Timot
Is Victor Wembanyama Too Tall?
Why it’s hard to watch the NBA’s most promising young talent Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic* In middle age, some sports fans become reactionaries. Due to dwindling neuroplasticity, or some general souring toward the world, they can no longer appreciate how a game evolves. It’s s
Netflix vs. Paramount
Whoever wins… we lose? Santi Visalli / Getty Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts If Warner Bros. Discovery was only a movie house, it would have had one of its best years ever. Two of its films (One Battle After Another and Sinners) are front-runner
How to Follow the Right Star
The ancient Christmas story of the Magi contains a message that can guide your modern search for happiness. Illustration by Jan Buchczik A much-loved Christmas story tells about the journey of the Magi—the three Wise Men who came seeking the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. “Where is He who has been bo
So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files
The latest batch includes many new references to Trump—and enough ammunition for Congress to keep pressing. Illustration by Anna Ruch / The Atlantic. Sources: Alex Edelman / Bloomberg / Getty; AFP / Getty. Nearly two years ago, Donald Trump kicked off the presidential-campaign season with a dec