Matt Peterson
The Making of a Trade Warrior
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer wants to limit China’s influence, even if he has to break the American-made economic order to do it.
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Guadalupe Pardo / Reuters One Man’s Poverty Budget, 40 Years Later
In 1977, the writer John Brooke itemized his annual budget. It wasn’t pretty, even by today’s standards.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Congo’s Illusion of Stability
A tainted election reveals a lesson about the relationship between democracy and power.
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Joel Saget / Getty For Tim Wu, Breaking Up Facebook Is Just the Beginning
The legal reformer wants to bring back antitrust as the cornerstone of a new political philosophy.
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Nick Adams / Reuters 25 Years of Reefer Madness
Everything has changed since the drug war of the mid-’90s. And nothing has.
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Jon Gambrell/AP Pay No Attention to the Oilman Behind the Curtain
Riyadh has refined its control of oil production over the years. But that doesn’t mean it can embargo the United States again.
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Bilal Qabalan/AFP/Getty Images Pulling Back the Mask of Saudi Oil Power
Riyadh has refined its control of oil production over the years. But that doesn’t mean it can embargo the United States again.
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China News Service / Getty China’s New Environmental Story
Over 20-plus years, China has gone from ignoring pollution to taking center stage at climate talks. Here’s how that happened.
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Illustration: Justin Metz / Concept: Delcan & Co. The Fight for Love and Pleasure
Why are young Americans having a hard time getting down?
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Mendelsund / Munday Behind the Scenes with Kate Julian
The author of the “Sex Recession” sits down with The Masthead.
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Frank Augstein / AP Why Jeremy Corbyn Isn’t Fighting Brexit
Labour’s leader is focused instead on purging the party of Tony Blair’s legacy.
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Francois Mori / AP Taking Soros Seriously
The Masthead revisits George Soros’s 1997 Atlantic cover story
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Adam Rountree / AP Solving Public Transit’s Perpetual Crisis
While national programs stall, private projects move ahead.
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Caetano Barreira / Reuters Meet The Atlantic’s New Crossword-Puzzle Guru
Caleb Madison is innovating within a decades-old form.
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Mark Lennihan / AP Alexa Doesn’t Love You
It’s getting easier to become emotionally attached to a voice assistant. That’s a mixed blessing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Wins a Round on NAFTA, and America Loses the Trade War
If Trump wants to take down China in the trade wars, the NAFTA talks won’t help.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Trump Believes Fox News—And South Africa Pays the Price
In a late-night tweet, the president shows disdain for a long tradition in American foreign policy.
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Matt York / AP The Midterms Mystery
Unknowns dominate the race for Congress.
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Darren Whiteside / Reuters How Autocrats Are Gaining the Upper Hand
A guide to the democratic recession
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Black Box at the Heart of American Foreign Policy
What did Trump tell Putin in Helsinki? The answer doesn’t matter all that much.
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Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP NATO in the Migrant Crisis
The Trump administration wants NATO front and center. So do many Europeans.
