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Photo illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. … The Arab Spring Is in Its Death Spiral. Does the West Still Care?
Tunisia was the best case, Sudan the last hope, Syria the bloodiest of all: The countries that not long ago sparked optimism for a democratic wave in the Arab world have descended into dictatorship, and Washington shouldn’t ignore them.
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Photo by Marcos del Mazo / LightRocket / … Super-Rare Angel Sharks Are Thriving in a Fake Beach Full of Tourists
The Canary Islands have somehow become a major nursery for a critically endangered species.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: miniature / Getty. The Era of Flush State Budgets Is Over
What comes next?
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Illustration by Todd St. John How Parking Ruined Everything
America has paid a steep price for devoting too much space to storing cars.
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Sophie Mutevelian / BBC The Perfect Escapist Sci-Fi Series
Entertainment musts from Emma Sarappo
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Inge Morath / Magnum The Novelist Who Truly Understood the South
A new collection of Charles Portis’s work makes the case for his place in the American canon.
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Sophie Park / NYT / Redux Ron DeSantis’s Joyless Ride
The ultimate performative politician doesn’t seem to enjoy the in-person performance of politics.
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Ethan Murphy Movies Are Best Before Noon
In praise of starting the day with enjoyable things
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DeAgostini / Getty Dark Extinctions Are Popping Up Everywhere
Scientists keep discovering species in museum collections long after they’ve died out. What else have we missed?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Wild, Wondrous Food Findings
Atlantic writers have challenged conventional food wisdom time and time again.
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Photo-Illustraton by chantal Jahchan. Source: Ohio Universtiy; NYTimes. The Invention of Objectivity
The view from nowhere came from somewhere.
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The Atlantic A New Cold War Could Be Much Worse Than the One We Remember
China is a more formidable adversary than the Soviet Union ever was, and the world is less divisible.
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Joe Raedle / Getty What People Misunderstand About NIMBYs
Asking a neighborhood or municipality to bear the responsibility for a housing crisis is asking for failure.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic AI Doomerism Is a Decoy
Big Tech’s warnings about an AI apocalypse are distracting us from years of actual harms their products have caused.
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HBO / Apple Will We Remember Succession or Ted Lasso More?
What to make of two strikingly different series finales—and worldviews
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Illustration by Ben Hickey The Labor-Shortage Myth
Things are finally looking up for the American worker. Why does the government see that as a crisis?
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Gordon Parks / Heritage Art / Getty A Tragically American Approach to the Child-Care Crisis
The U.S. is returning to a tired old playbook: If at first you fail to make something a universal right, try making it an employee benefit.
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Photo-illustration by Alex Cochran. Source: Getty. America Is Headed Toward Collapse
History shows how to stave it off.
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Ben Kothe; The Atlantic / Getty Why Putin’s Secret Weapon Failed
Russia’s gambit to deter support for Ukraine by restricting energy supplies flopped—thanks to concerted action by European countries.
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Associated Press The Key to America’s Victory in the Second World War
Ernie Pyle understood that the war would be won, or lost, in the realm of steel, dirt, and blood.
