The Zika Olympics
The upcoming 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro have sparked a debate about how much risk is too much.
The upcoming 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro have sparked a debate about how much risk is too much.
The first domesticated animals may have been tamed twice.
As young people increasingly move to cities, what happens to the people and places they leave behind?
Some Democratic primary voters are indulging in the dangerous fantasy that burning down the system is best.
Who has jumped on the bandwagon? Who’s sticking with #NeverTrump? And who hasn’t made up their mind yet? A continually updated inventory
The next few years will see a massive shift of ads and attention from TV to mobile. A handful of companies, led by Facebook, are poised to make a killing.
After weeks of agonizing, the House speaker lets the world know as quietly as he can that, yes, he’ll be voting for Donald Trump in November.
Love You to Death sees the duo tinkering with synth-pop to communicate precise, and often bittersweet, emotions.
It doesn’t matter what the price tag is when the value is good.
Kurt Vonnegut once imagined World War II backwards and found peace at the end. What happens if you do the same for recent conflicts in the Middle East?
An Indian court convicted 24 people—but acquitted 36—for the Gulbarg Society killings in which 69 Muslims were killed.
Investigators say a French vessel looking for the aircraft has detected a signal from one of the data recorders.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will visit Britain on June 24—the day after the “Brexit” vote—for the opening of his golf resort.
Officials are looking into whether the popular tourist attraction was involved in the wildlife trafficking after the discovery of 40 dead cubs.
The U.S. State Department warned American travelers of terrorism in Europe this summer.
It’s not what the wider world says about black writers that should concern them, so much as what they say about themselves.
The Republican candidate’s insistence that Gonzalo Curiel cannot preside impartially simply because of his ethnic heritage flies in the face of established precedent and judicial principle.
The upcoming 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro have sparked a debate about how much risk is too much.
News reports, citing an anonymous source close to the investigation, say the singer died of an overdose, most likely from painkillers.
Thirty years ago, the magazine declared that single women over 40 are more likely to be killed by terrorism than to get married—prompting a nationwide crisis whose anxiety still lingers.
Low-income families spend more than 80 percent of their budget on things like housing, food, and health care—that’s a lot more than 30 years ago.
Rich patrons often choose to fund artists’ most wild and outlandish dreams. Why?
The Kiev-based startup Luciding is trying to put people in control of the images they encounter in their sleep.
The short film Concrete Royalty tells the story of a determined 16-year-old snare drummer.
A short film on how the tricky business of buying and dealing artwork has evolved
If you want to help your bacteria, build them a nice place to live.
The short film Knedle pairs the instructions for a Croatian dessert with a grandmother's recollections.
A short film goes inside a popular form of astrology in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Trump’s core promise is to return to white, working-class Americans what they feel they’ve lost.
The right to legal counsel has long been the gold standard of American justice under the Constitution. But what happens when a state refuses to budget for public defenders? Louisiana is finding out.
Lawmakers’ pay has been frozen for years. Whether that should change—and how much they deserve—is up for debate.
Donald Verrilli, who as the Obama administration’s top litigator won landmark cases on the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, and immigration, will step down this month.
Some say Donald Trump has boosted his massive online following with automated accounts. But there’s more to it than that.
Republicans are lining up behind Donald Trump, but Bill Kristol is still trying to stop him. Too bad pundits are conflating his chances of success with its virtue.
Powerful female members of the GOP are caught between party loyalty and the front-runner’s misogyny.
The thorny habit is a tough one to break—but scientists say that managing it is possible.
Two researchers applied common neuroscience techniques to a classic computer chip. Their results are a wake-up call for the whole field.
When NASA’s Juno probe reaches the planet in July, scientists may finally find out what drives the strange phenomenon.
Among the institution’s early employees were female “computers” who made rocket launches possible.
Independent brewers are playing with ancient ingredients to invent new flavors.
The popular gene-editing technique can deliver a step-by-step account of how a single-cell embryo becomes a trillion-cell animal.
By re-enfranchising people with felony convictions, the state confronts its Jim Crow legacy.
2015’s The Raven and the Light illuminates one of the darkest stories of Canada’s native population.
The first film from Saturday Night Live’s Lonely Island trio gently mocks the fame of popstars like Justin Bieber.
The Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers face off for the second straight year.
During a whirlwind 15-month period in the late 1920s, technology and cultural trends intersected in turning Yankee diction into a global force.
The artist and musician Laurie Anderson reflects on the power of political rhetoric, why she voted for Hillary Clinton, and why she hated Hamilton.
As sung by the Fugees’ Lauryn Hill, the 20-year-old cover was a pivotal musical moment for many young black women in 1996.
NBC’s latest effort to resurrect a classic TV format feels, at best, like reheated Saturday Night Live leftovers.
A new book chronicles how scores of former inmates and the people they harmed are jointly cheated by a cyclical and cynical state-sponsored debt spiral.
The LAPD has identified the shooter in Wednesday’s killing of an engineering professor.
Federal prosecutors ended their investigation into the November 2016 shooting death of Jamar Clark.
A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a police officer for attempted murder and negligent manslaughter in the 2015 killing of the 31-year-old black man.
After a 4-year-old climbed into a gorilla’s pen, the internet unleashed its fury, showing a profound lack of empathy.
Torrential rain in Texas, and overflowing rivers and reservoirs have caused thousands to evacuate their homes, and killed at least six people.
Heavy rains across parts of Europe this week have caused rivers to overflow and flash floods to inundate small towns in Germany.
What happens to the small bits of currency that people toss into city fountains?
What else must be done to protect consumers from predatory lending?
A new analysis of attendees’ earnings is in, and it doesn’t look good.
If American liberals want the continent’s solutions, they ought to also recognize its problems.
The month’s most interesting stories about money and business from around the web.
Convicted felons who get jobs are much less likely to go on to commit another crime. Why are there so many barriers for them to join the workforce?
Oregon, one of the whitest states in the union, also has one of the most generous safety nets. Is that a coincidence or something more troubling?
Figuring out how many SIDS cases are misclassified may be key to prevention.
The strange new food preferences of Americans, according to Google
Even for those with insurance, getting mental healthcare means fighting through phone tag, payment confusion, and even outright discrimination.
Doctors are trying out new ways to give sick children better shut-eye.
A woman in New Jersey gave birth to a baby girl this week after being infected with the virus.
Interbreeding with our fellow hominins appears to have helped humans survive harsh climates.
As developing nations clamp down on the practice, hopeful parents are struggling to find women to carry their children.
What Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at the Santa Fe Indian School says about the importance of self-determination in education
Schools are exploring new ways to teach children the rules of informal interactions.
Teachers and the Obama administration are divided over what the federal government’s role should be in telling districts how to fund their schools.
For 50 years, Bassick High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut has been neglected and underfunded.
A recent college graduate shatters the perception that immigration reform is only a Latino issue.
Bilingual education facilitates connections beyond the confines of a classroom.
Right now, only about 10 percent of Americans study in a foreign country during school.
The best parts of the internet are in danger of disappearing over time—but personal information has an exceptionally long half-life.
The country has long prided itself as a land of reinvention, but not if it means abandoning the right to know what the neighbors are up to.
It’s silly to capitalize it, but doing so gave the global network a needed sense of awe and terror.
The social-media platform suspended the popular @DarthPutinKGB account on Tuesday. A day later, the account appeared to be back online.
Must-reads about science, technology, and health from around the web
Finding empty pools for skateboarding has never been so easy.
Narcissism, disagreeableness, grandiosity—a psychologist investigates how Trump’s extraordinary personality might shape his possible presidency.
“Language is hardly ever neutral. … [Journalists] have no choice but to make a choice.”
The Atlantic will be at the national conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia for a series of policy briefings, forums, interviews and more exploring how the candidates will shape policy and craft their plan for America’s future.
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