Recent articles
July 9, 2026
Who Can Hold ICE Accountable?
A new shooting in Texas. Still no proper investigations into the shootings in Minnesota.
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July 2, 2026
American History as Rorschach Test
A new curriculum plays down America’s sins.
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June 25, 2026
How the World Cup Explains the World
Postcolonialism. Global interdependence. Perhaps even a healthy kind of nationalism in 2026?
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June 11, 2026
When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other
The modern politics of masculinity
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June 4, 2026
Is the GOP Starting to Defy Trump?
Republicans aren’t automatically falling in line anymore.
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May 28, 2026
History Repeats in Cuba
Trump is not the first American president to think he can take it.
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May 14, 2026
America Has Always Had a Gerrymandering Problem. This Is New.
Election maps post-Callais
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May 7, 2026
The Tragedy of the Tradwife
Caro Claire Burke on her best-selling novel, Yesteryear, and the retrograde fantasy that inspired it.
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April 30, 2026
The ‘Great Man’ Presidency
Is Donald Trump reading Hegel?
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April 23, 2026
The Kash Patel Fallout
An interview with the Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick about her reporting
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