The Atlantic Wire

The Atlantic Wire is your authoritative guide to the news and ideas that matter most right now.

The Ultra-Secure Steve Jobs Memorial Service

The Ultra-Secure Steve Jobs Memorial Service

Silicon Valley stars and celebrities gathered at Stanford to remember the former Apple CEO More »

Herman Cain's Koch Ties

Herman Cain's Koch Ties

The candidate goes way back with the billionaire brothers who've funded conservative politics and tea-party protests More »

Today in Research: Hallucinations Before Migraines; Vitamin Worries

Today in Research: Hallucinations Before Migraines; Vitamin Worries

A Montefiore Headache Center meta-analysis informs us that, although it's uncommon, there have been cases of migraine hallucinations More »

Huntsman Threatens to Boycott Nevada, but He'd Probably Lose

Huntsman Threatens to Boycott Nevada, but He'd Probably Lose

He hails from the next state over, but the former Utah governor likely couldn't top Romney in the caucus, which could happen in mid January More »

Goodbye Google Buzz: The World Barely Knew You

Goodbye Google Buzz: The World Barely Knew You

Google Buzz will die in a few months so that the company can better focus its efforts on their new social network Google+ More »

Obama Orders Combat Troops to Africa

Obama Orders Combat Troops to Africa

The president has sent U.S. soldiers to Uganda to advise and assist forces fighting against the Lord's Resistance Army More »

Perry Agrees: He's Getting Picked on Because of His Faith

Perry Agrees: He's Getting Picked on Because of His Faith

The Texas governor says his wife is right: His rivals have attacked him because he's a conservative Christian More »

Photo Hunt: Where Are Mitt Romney's Fans?

Photo Hunt: Where Are Mitt Romney's Fans?

His campaign sells a lot of T-shirts, but does anyone actually wear them? We scoured the Internet to find out. More »

Today in Research: The 6th Sense's Evolutionary Trail; More

Today in Research: The 6th Sense's Evolutionary Trail; More

Cornell University traced back the sixth sense ability to navigate direction based on magnetic fields to a prehistoric predatory marine fish More »

Occupy Wall Street Is Building Its Own Social Network

Occupy Wall Street Is Building Its Own Social Network

Expected to launch later tonight, the goal of the site is to give activists a place to communicate online More »

CDC Surveys Find Teenage Sex Trends Moving in Right Direction

CDC Surveys Find Teenage Sex Trends Moving in Right Direction

Most teen boys say that they used condoms the first time that they had sex, and the teen birth rate is 40 percent lower than its peak in 1991 More »

Scott Brown Plagiarizes Elizabeth Dole

Scott Brown Plagiarizes Elizabeth Dole

Under the bio section of his website, the senator lifted a paragraph from the North Carolina Republican to describe his moral compass More »

Today in Research: Reconstructing the Black Death's DNA; More

Today in Research: Reconstructing the Black Death's DNA; More

Researchers in London have extracted bits of DNA from the teeth of medieval corpses to find the mutation that caused this deadly plague More »

Newt Gingrich Wants to Arrest Barney Frank

Newt Gingrich Wants to Arrest Barney Frank

The GOP presidential candidate suggested the Massachusetts congressman should go to jail for the financial crisis More »

All the Ways BlackBerry Is Pushing Itself Towards Extinction

All the Ways BlackBerry Is Pushing Itself Towards Extinction

The one-time smartphone king has ceded its crown to Apple, and poor devices and service mean the company can't win it back More »

Vodka-Soaked Gummy Bears: The Newest Teen Drinking 'Trend'

Vodka-Soaked Gummy Bears: The Newest Teen Drinking 'Trend'

"Leave it to teenagers to take something [so] wholesome ... and turn it into ... mischief," reads a police department's Facebook page More »

Perry: The American Revoluion Happened 'in the 16th Century'

Perry: The American Revoluion Happened 'in the 16th Century'

At Dartmouth's Beta Theta Pi house, the governor either misremembered the date of the war or how centuries are counted More »

Today in Research: Supplements Could Harm Older Women; More

Today in Research: Supplements Could Harm Older Women; More

New research finds that vitamin "supplements may not be helpful, and in some cases, could even be harmful," according to an ABC report More »

The Fragmented Future of Streaming Television

The Fragmented Future of Streaming Television

As viewers migrate to the Internet for media consumption, a few TV boxes attempt to put that content back where it started More »

Apple and Friends Celebrate Early iPhone 4S Sales

Apple and Friends Celebrate Early iPhone 4S Sales

Apple isn't the only company with a stake in the iPhone 4S. A number of other firms also have reason to cheer today. More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

Subscribe Now

SAVE 65%! 10 issues JUST $2.45 PER COPY

Newsletters

Sign up to receive our free newsletters

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)