~best-of-the-atlanti | Bookmarks (1073)
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Is Sasha Velour in Danger?
What happens when a famous drag queen travels to states that have tried to ban drag?
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The Maternal-Mortality Crisis That Didn’t Happen
Many advocates wrongly presume that gloom and doom is the only way to motivate change.
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A Devil’s Bargain With OpenAI
Publishers including The Atlantic are signing deals with the AI giant. Where does this lead?
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The Jury Deliberates, and Trump Posts
Outside the courtroom, the former president is showing voters who he really is.
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RFK Jr.’s Philosophy of Contradictions
Making sense of the most consequential independent presidential run in decades
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The Child-Nutrition Myth That Just Won’t Die
Disguising vegetables inside other foods might be the worst way to get a toddler to eat...
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You’ll Become a Fan of These Fierce, Strange Girls
Headshot upends the classic story of the underdog by turning each of its characters into one.
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‘La Niña Really Can’t Come Soon Enough’
The climate phenomenon should cool the world. But first, we have to make it through another...
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The Real ‘Deep State’
Lobbying firms have disguised their influence so well that it’s often barely visible even to savvy...
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Photos: The 2024 Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling Race
Images of racers running and tumbling down a very steep hill—pursuing a large wheel of cheese
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Trump Has a New Plan to Deal With Campus Protests
And he doesn’t seem to care that it violates the Constitution.
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Is America Ready for ‘Degrowth Communism’?
Kohei Saito’s theory of how to solve climate change is economically dubious and politically impossible. Why...
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Sweater-Eating Moths Are an Unbeatable Enemy
They will eat much more than just your clothes.
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No One Really Understands Clouds
They’re one of the greatest climate mysteries left.
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The Woman Who Made America Take Cookbooks Seriously
Judith Jones edited culinary greats such as Julia Child and Edna Lewis—and identified the pleasure at...
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Mark Robinson Is Testing the Bounds of GOP Extremism
If he loses, the Republicans have a problem. If he wins, they also have a problem.
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‘She Is the Icon of All That Is Joyful in the World’
A little green puppet from an old children’s TV show is healing hearts for a new...
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Dear Therapist: A Son I Didn’t Know Existed Just Found Me
And my wife is very upset about me reconnecting with his mother.
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How to Trust Your Brain Online
What happens in our brains as we try to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
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Nuclear Energy’s Bottom Line
The United States used to build nuclear-power plants affordably. To meet our climate goals, we’ll need...