Timothy Lavin

Timothy Lavin is an Atlantic senior editor.

Issue January/February 2011

How the Recession Changed Us

What a difference two years makes.

Coming Clean on Northern Ireland's 'Bloody Sunday'

Why the longest and most expensive investigation in British history was worth it More »

Issue July/August 2010

Monsters in the Market

In today’s exchanges, strong programs prey on weak ones, humans are hard to find, and the SEC struggles to keep up.

The Hopeful Search for Extraterrestrial Life

The Hopeful Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Fifty years of effort has yet to yield any evidence of alien life, yet now is a great time for serious enthusiasts More »

At Preakness, Don't Bet on the Derby Winner

At Preakness, Don't Bet on the Derby Winner

Everyone loves the jockey Calvin Borel, but wise gamblers should avoid putting their money down on him More »

Issue January/February 2010

The Listener

For four hours every night, on holidays and weekends, George Noory is the voice in the darkness for millions of Americans. His show, Coast to Coast AM, has perfected a charged and conspiratorial worldview that now pervades American media. It’s quite possibly the oddest show ever to cross our airwaves. And it may change the radio business forever.

Issue May 2009

The Fed's Cash Machine

The fiscal stimulus is puny compared with the actions the Fed has been taking behind closed doors.

Issue January/February 2009

Then and Now

The nation Barack Obama inherits

Issue October 2008

Football's Founding Fathers

Mark Bowden discusses the legendary Giants-Colts game of 1958 and reflects on how the sport and its players have changed in the past half century.

Issue April 2008

Uranium on the Loose

Lawrence Scott Sheets discusses the lawlessness of the former Soviet republics and the nuclear threat no one talks about.

Raging Bulls

Atlantic staff editor Timothy Lavin runs with the bulls in Pamplona and lives to tell the tale

Power-sharing in Northern Ireland

Atlantic writings from 1916 through the 1980s offer perspective on just how momentous a development this is.

Issue April 2007

As the World Warms

Gregg Easterbrook talks about his cover story, "Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?," and the unexpected by-products of climate change.

The Sport of Kings

As the Kentucky Derby approaches, a look back at Atlantic writings paying tribute to the exhilarating heights and seedy depths of horse racing

From Belfast With Love

Matthew Teague talks about "Double Blind," his extraordinary profile of a double agent who helped undermine the IRA

The Biggest Story in Photos

2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

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