Franklin Foer
He is the author of World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. He was previously the editor of The New Republic and a staff writer at Slate and New York magazine. His other books include How Soccer Explains the World and Jewish Jocks (co-edited with Marc Tracy), which won a National Jewish Book Award. He is currently finishing a history of the first year of the Joe Biden presidency.
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Stringer / Reuters / Redux No Time for Funeral Rites
The gravedigger of Bucha provides evidence of Russian atrocities.
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Alex Wong / Getty Biden Brings in a Consultant
Jeff Zients will make for a very different—and less familiar—chief of staff than his predecessor.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Joe Biden Wins Again
Biden Rest Stops as far as the eye can see
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty You’ll Miss Gerontocracy When It’s Gone
Are the oldsters who refuse to retire hoarding power or just better at wielding it?
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Ben Hickey The Cynic’s Dilemma
As 2022 comes to a close, I feel something unfamiliar, something I can’t entirely trust: optimism.
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Chris Brunskill / Fantasista / Getty The Lionel Messi Guide to Living
Like any great artist, the aging soccer phenom showed a youth-obsessed world the potential glory of a late-style triumph.
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Doug Zimmerman / ISI Photos / Getty Remembering Grant Wahl, a Champion of American Soccer
The journalist died on Friday in Qatar at age 49.
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John Dorton / ISI Photos / Getty America, the Naive
In Saturday’s World Cup–eliminating defeat, the U.S. men’s team revealed its shortcomings against the old-world sophistication of the Netherlands.
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Ian MacNicol / Getty The Tormented Soul of Iranian Soccer
This World Cup could pose the gravest threat yet to the Islamic regime.
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Markus Gilliar / GES Sportfoto / Getty At Last, the Americans Have Arrived
Sometimes progress is measured in ties.
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Olivier Douliery / Getty Antony Blinken on the Diplomatic Niceties of the Beautiful Game
The secretary of state discusses his lifelong love of soccer and humanitarian concerns about this year’s World Cup.
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Buda Mendes / Getty A Short History of Brazilian Soccer
Staff writers Franklin Foer and Clint Smith talk about which teams they’re rooting for in the 2022 World Cup, and give a lesson about one of the most storied teams in soccer.
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Mohammed Dabbous / Getty A Spectacle of Scoundrels
The 2022 Qatar World Cup may be the tournament’s most detestable yet. I’ll be watching anyway.
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Melina Mara / Getty What Joe Biden Knows About America
He intuited that voters would rise above their economic self-interest to prevent election deniers from seizing power.
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Jens-Ulrich Koch / DDP / AFP / Getty Now Do Amazon
Consolidation in book publishing is a trivial issue compared with the dominance of the Everything Store.
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VCG / Getty The Defection of Mikhail Voskresensky
Why a beloved Russian pianist is living in the Bronx with only a Yamaha electric keyboard
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Jonno Rattman for The Atlantic The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump
Merrick Garland hasn’t tipped his hand, but it’s clear to me that he will bring charges against the former president.
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Alexander Chekmenev for The Atlantic The Man Who Chased History
The Ukrainian journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a nose for a story and a knack for being in the right place at the right time. I wanted to see the war through his eyes.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Paul Manafort Is Back
It isn’t pretty.
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RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP / Getty Zelensky’s Prayer
On the meaning of “We are still here.”
