Ross Andersen
The Aftermath of a Mass Slaughter at the Zoo
Last year, a fox broke into a bird enclosure in D.C. and killed 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Universal … ChatGPT Has Impostor Syndrome
AI doesn’t know its own strengths.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty What Happens When AI Has Read Everything?
The dream of an artificial mind may never become a reality if AI runs out of quality prose to ingest—and there isn’t much left.
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Warrick Page / HBO / Charlie Le Maignan … The Frenetic Basketball Nostalgia of Winning Time
Three basketball-loving writers discuss the first season of HBO’s controversial series about the 1980s Lakers.
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Studio Hosego The Search for America’s Atlantis
Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?
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Seeing America’s Wilderness for What It Is
Introducing a new series about this country’s natural spaces
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Bettmann; Kevin C. Cox / Getty; Paul Spella … It Had to Be the Lakers
Love them or hate them, the NBA’s most storied franchise was the right team for this moment.
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Jonathan Djob Nkondo The Panopticon Is Already Here
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Kobe Bryant’s Unfinished Business
It’s tragic that a superstar known for his thoughtfulness and willingness to learn never fully reckoned with his life’s darkest off-court episode.
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Agence Opale / Alamy A Conversation With Lauren Groff About Her Writing Process
“Often before I write a scene for the final time … I take a minute, close my eyes, and build the world of the scene around me.”
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NASA / Newsmakers / Getty What Will the Moon Landing Mean to the Future?
Nearly 50 years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the lunar surface, it’s clear that Apollo 11 will haunt the human imagination for a long time to come.
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Getty / Life on White A Journey Into the Animal Mind
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world
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Delcan & Company ‘It Satisfies Every Childlike Curiosity’
Don DeLillo's literary interpretation of an astronaut’s “endlessly fulfilling” view of our home planet
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Matthew Shipley Fight Night With LeBron
Laker fans get their first glimpse of L.A.’s newest megastar, in one of the most chaotic home openers in memory.
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Jon Juarez What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Nature's Disastrous ‘Whitewashing’ Editorial
Science's ethos of self-correction should apply to how it thinks about its own history, too.
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Olga Dar / ostill / Shutterstock / Zak … The Eclipse as Dark Omen
America’s skies are set to dim at a strange hour of its history.
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NASA A Wondrous New Image of Planet Earth
The Cassini spacecraft gives us a rare glimpse of ourselves from between Saturn's rings.
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Kevin Tong Welcome to Pleistocene Park
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters Elon Musk Is Betting Big on Donald Trump
He may come to regret it.
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Paramount Pictures Is Arrival the Best ‘First Contact’ Film Ever Made?
Two Atlantic writers on the very high highs, and (perhaps) the very low lows, of the genre
