Cuba, the Brand
Miami’s Little Havana is no longer home to the city’s Cuban population, but that hasn’t stopped businesses there from pretending things haven’t changed.
Miami’s Little Havana is no longer home to the city’s Cuban population, but that hasn’t stopped businesses there from pretending things haven’t changed.
A new study redeems a remarkably successful canvassing approach that was rocked by scientific fraud last year.
The cryptocurrency is a powerful tool for early adopters and middle-class entrepreneurs, but it may not provide the opportunities in the developing world that its advocates claim.
Some seem concerned with its economic impact—others see it as a threat to the country’s values.
And that’s all it may ever be.
A video survey
Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than African American ones.
The Fox talent show, ending with its series finale tonight, offered rare glimpses of humanity in primetime entertainment.
What if the employees best positioned to hire undervalued minority candidates are … white men?
Bill Clinton’s unforced error on the trail places the 1994 Violent Crime Act back in play.
Win or lose, the Democrat has already accelerated a major generational shift within the Democratic party.
Social conservatives and some feminists worry that the rise of streaming, hi-def pornography causes men to use and abuse women—but it has coincided with steep declines in rape and spousal abuse.
Steve Mishkin's unexpected recovery is a case study in luck, split-second decisions, and the many, many things that need to go right for a trauma patient to get well.
The Vermont senator’s escalation is more semantic than substantive—he’s been critiquing her decisions on the Iraq war, campaign finance, and free trade for months.
The British leader has acknowledged he had a stake in his father’s offshore trust—but says he sold it in 2010 before he became prime minister.
The Russian president denies there was “any element of corruption" in details contained in the documents from Mossack Fonseca.
Federal authorities also released the route the unidentified man took after the attack on Zaventem airport on March 22.
The European Commission has proposed either modifying an existing rule on distributing asylum-seekers or scrapping it.
It was easy to laugh at Toronto’s late mayor. But the punch line, all too often, was that he was an addict.
The country offers little regulation and considerable privacy for foreign individuals and businesses.
An exercise in taking the Republican front-runner’s foreign policy seriously
In a short documentary, the theme of friendship takes center stage.
A short documentary chronicles the end of a beloved institution in Portland, Maine.
In the Florida Keys, an organization is fighting to save one of the world’s oldest animals.
A new documentary explores the thorny implications of having the Nazi leader’s name.
Regardless of which scenario prevails, there’s likely to be conflict in Cleveland.
A survey reveals how little commentators know about what students think about the First Amendment.
Most Donald Trump voters are civically disengaged—a fact that may yet cost him the nomination.
The Vermont senator erases his rival’s national lead in a new PRRI / The Atlantic poll, even as he struggles to close the delegate gap.
It's not too late for Trump or an anti-Trump to make a credible independent bid.
The Republican front-runner’s appeal seems rooted in a distinctive political culture—born in the British borderlands, and still flourishing in America’s southern highlands.
The shrimping industry is fraught with human-rights abuses. One startup thinks their plant-based seafood might be the answer.
A U.S. attempt to stem Chinese cybersecurity breaches was thwarted by the revelation that the two countries were actually doing similar things.
A journalist has penned the first chronology of the largest war fought on the Internet—the Great War of EVE Online.
After centuries of innovation, it faces an uncertain future: an Object Lesson.
“If the only way to convincingly imagine a world without Internet is to imagine a world without civilization, then to a first approximation, the Internet has become our civilization.”
And a lesson that media companies have had to learn again and again and again.
The editors are betting that anonymity can help creativity to thrive.
The FX series wasn’t a traditional whodunnit—but that’s precisely why it resonated with viewers so much.
The teaser trailer for the first ‘Star Wars anthology film’ promises a nostalgic thrill-ride.
A New York judge’s dismissal of rape allegations cites statutes of limitations and other issues unrelated to Dr. Luke’s guilt or innocence.
The Melissa McCarthy vehicle is the latest comedy to fall victim to the pitfall of the pratfall.
The performer died on Wednesday, his 79th birthday.
Shows like Hulu’s The Path are part of an ongoing paradigm shift in television that favors the season over the episode.
After 10 episodes, four Atlantic writers consider how the series illuminated history.
The well-being gap is widening in most countries—but what does that mean?
The ngangkari, who treat spiritual ailments along with the mental and physical, believe that they can help their community in ways that Western medicine misses.
There’s early evidence that the mosquito-borne virus can harm and even kill fetuses in the third trimester.
Urban areas are supposed to be healthier places to live—but according to new research, that advantage may be fading.
On the Greek island of Lesbos, psychologists have only a few days to help the waves of arriving refugees before they move on.
A disease called primary progressive aphasia gradually robs people of language skills while leaving their minds intact.
Terms like “low-functioning” are short on nuance and long on stigma.
Understanding the difference between awareness and attention might be the key to unlocking the mystery of human consciousness.
“During sleep the mind can be a remarkable engine of problem solving and emotional processing.”
Zika and Ebola get the headlines, but pathogens that threaten livestock could be even more dangerous for humans.
For centuries, women quietly played major roles in some of the field’s biggest breakthroughs.
How much will the sea rise in our children’s lifetimes?
Japanese women’s professional wrestling can be intense and brutal in the ring, while promoting fantasy elements to its mostly-male fan base.
Mossack Fonseca kept its clients largely on the right side of the law. Indeed, that’s entirely the point.
Researchers tracked hundreds of students in Baltimore to find out what top achievers had that others didn’t.
One sociologist says that there’s too much of a focus on giving out more college degrees, getting more people married, and making elite workplaces more diverse.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to stop the deal between two of the world’s largest oilfield-services companies.
The news comes days after the U.S. Treasury Department announced rules that targeted such deals.
Pushing for greater transparency is an important first step.
Two options exist: increase revenues or cut benefits. The problem is figuring out which is fairer.
How a New Hampshire school gives its students more responsibility—and freedom—to shape their academic lives
Grappling with the way books make students feel should be part of the high-school English curriculum.
Some teachers worry about the growing popularity of books and movies about poor city schools lead to damaging myths about their students and communities.
Three of the five largest school districts hire more security officers than counselors.
Princeton’s board of trustees votes to retain Woodrow Wilson’s name on buildings and programs.
A new study suggests that low expectations from some teachers might engender low performance from students.
In urban waste-material adventure playgrounds, children can build, climb, graffiti, and create.
The Panama Papers show how the U.S. state has become a favored destination rivaling the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
A federal judge formally approved a $20 billion settlement years after the worst offshore spill in American history.
How many racist text threads among cops will it take for officials to recognize systemic problems?
The city carefully planned its economic revitalization. Why, then, is it so painful for some of the people who have lived here the longest?
A prosecutor in Minneapolis said police were justified in shooting the 24-year-old black man because he was trying to grab an officer’s gun.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the city in New Jersey reached an agreement Wednesday to overhaul how the city’s police works.
Desegregating schools by shuttling kids across town failed. That doesn’t mean the significance of the original goal must fail.
The women of Kountze, Texas, have been fighting for four years to put Bible verses on their banners. Their case is a look at what's ahead for religious-liberty conflicts in America.
Young Americans might be leaving religion in large numbers, but for some, rules, ritual, and tradition are attractive ways to find meaning in daily life.
Non-religious families often find it difficult to educate their children without relying on conservative Christian curricula and communities.
Finding love within the Zoroastrian community can be complicated, especially because interfaith couples aren’t always accepted.
Young, LGBT Latter-day Saints can’t live the ideal life of marriage and family described in their religion. But deciding to leave isn't straightforward.
A new generation of young leaders in Baltimore are largely organizing outside of congregations. What does this mean for their movement—and for the church?
“It’s a groundbreaking work, but Freudenthal’s book is the most boring I have ever read. Logarithm tables are cool compared to it.”
Following President Barack Obama’s historic trip to Cuba in March, Reuters photographer Ueslei Marcelino set up his camera on the streets of Havana and asked passing residents what they thought of Obama’s visit.