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Alex Brandon / AP What Would Trump Even Do With a Second Term?
He hasn’t offered many new ideas for another four years—and hasn’t accomplished most of what he aimed for so far in his first four.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Day I Learned I Was American
My ability to embrace America on my own terms is a privilege that makes America great.
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Fars News Agency / WANA via Reuters The Many Ways Iran-U.S. Tensions Could Blow Up
Any number of relatively mundane scenarios now have the potential for escalation—from a fire at a militia base to the seizure of an oil tanker to the signal-jamming of a drone.
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Graywolf Girl, Haunted
A drowning haunts Susan Steinberg’s dark first novel about teenagers’ summer adventures.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Washington Can’t Wait for Mueller. Voters Have Moved On.
Rather than expecting fireworks from the former special counsel’s appearance before Congress, many seem wary of getting their hopes up.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The Perils of Leadership Based on Charisma Instead of Strategy
Surrogates have to contort themselves to curry favor with the likes of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Schiffting Gears
The Mueller report took a bit of wind out of Adam Schiff's sails. This week, the House Intelligence Committee chairman's back in the spotlight. Plus: Puerto Rico protests.
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Jim Crow’s Last Stand
Until the midterm elections last year, a split jury could convict a defendant to life without parole in Louisiana.
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The Conversation
Readers respond to our June 2019 cover story.
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Jose Jimenez / Getty Photos: Days of Protest in Puerto Rico
Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló.
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Ralph Orlowski / Reuters The Human Brain Project Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise
Ten years ago, a neuroscientist said that within a decade he could simulate a human brain. Spoiler: It didn’t happen.
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HBO In Defense of Big Little Lies’ Second Season
Could any show meet the expectations that the HBO series set?
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Thanasis Zovoilis / Getty What Happens When Parents Wait to Tell a Child He’s Adopted
A new study suggests that learning about one’s own adoption after a certain age could lead to lower life satisfaction in the future.
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Disney / Marvel The Future of Movies Is Marvel
The studio’s upcoming slate of film and TV projects, announced over the weekend at Comic-Con, lays claim to its continued cultural ubiquity.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Letters: Trump Is a ‘Source of Hope’ for Taiwan
A Taiwanese American reader reflects on American-Taiwanese relations in the age of Trump.
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Victoria Neer / Getty The Quietly Changing Consensus on Neutering Dogs
A growing body of research has documented the health risks of getting certain breeds fixed early—so why aren’t shelters changing their policies?
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Joyce Naltchayan / AFP / Getty The LGBTQ Health Clinic That Faced a Dark Truth About the AIDS Crisis
America has rarely treated all people with HIV equally.
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Matt Chase The Stock-Buyback Swindle
American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs—at the expense of everyone else.
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BIANCA BAGNARELLI Dear Therapist: My Husband and I Don't Have Sex Anymore
I miss the closeness we had before our baby was born.
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Veronica Cardenas / Reuters The Stuff of Dystopian Nightmare
ACLU lawyers have stopped border agents from demanding ID after domestic flights.
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Patrick Semansky / AP / Katie Martin / ... Adam Schiff Is Back From the Wilderness
The House Intelligence Committee chairman opens up about the Mueller investigation.
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Dylan Martinez / AP / Neville Elder / ... Boris Johnson Meets His Destiny
Hailed as a savant, lampooned as a fraud, Britain’s likely next prime minister must lead his country through its moment of maximum peril—and opportunity.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Hong Kong’s New Reality
What was once extreme, both in action and in discourse, is becoming the norm.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO What Big Little Lies Got Wrong About Bonnie
Season 2 failed to give Zoë Kravitz’s character the depth of interrogation and analysis granted to its other stars.
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Illustration: Emily Haasch; Library of Congress The Students of Sex and Culture
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston—spurred on by Franz Boas—revolutionized the way we think about humanity.
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Ralph Morse / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... ‘The Fires of Their Ascent’
An excerpt from Of a Fire on the Moon, Norman Mailer’s seminal 1969 account of Apollo 11
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Jim Young / Reuters How Can Congress Authorize War When It Can’t Decide What War Is?
There’s bipartisan agreement that the law governing America’s wars needs an update. There’s also bipartisan agreement that it won’t happen anytime soon.
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Danish Siddiqui / Reuters Who Actually Feels Satisfied About Money?
“It’s not just how much you have—it’s what you do with it,” says one researcher who studies money and happiness.
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Eric Gay / AP The Border Patrol–to–Emergency Room Pipeline
The conditions in facilities at the border are so dire that many migrants are in need of medical care as soon as they are released.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why Online Dating Can Feel Like Such an Existential Nightmare
Matchmaking sites have officially surpassed friends and family in the world of dating, injecting modern romance with a dose of radical individualism. Maybe that’s the problem.
