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Rebecca Cook / Reuters A Federal Court Makes an Aggressive Move Against Partisan Gerrymandering
A panel of judges in Michigan has thrown out a set of electoral maps and ordered new elections in several state-Senate districts.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Joe for Broke
The former vice president is running for president—but last time around, President Obama favored Hillary Clinton. Plus: The acting White House chief of staff opens up about his job.
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Steve Snowden / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Trump’s Chief of Staff Says He’s Having a Ball
Mick Mulvaney wants you to know that he’s no narc like John Kelly.
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Wilfredo Lee / AP A Voting-Rights Debate Reveals Why Democrats Keep Losing
While 2020 hopefuls debate hypotheticals, state-level Republicans are curtailing the expansion of the franchise in Florida.
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Amy Harris / AP The Genre-Defying Rage of Rico Nasty
The Maryland rapper’s new project, Anger Management, is a collaboration with the producer Kenny Beats that continues an electrifying repertoire.
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Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty Photos: Climate-Change Protests Around the World
Since the beginning of the year, large numbers of protests against government inaction on issues of climate change have been taking place in cities worldwide.
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A Monk’s Son Struggles to Find Meaning
What’s the difference between Buddhist detachment and demotivation?
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Radio Atlantic: To Impeach or Not to Impeach?
Yoni Appelbaum and Ezra Klein debate whether Democrats should open an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP When Obama Talked Biden Out of Running for President
The former vice president pondered running in 2016, but Obama wanted Hillary Clinton.
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HBO How Game of Thrones’ New Song ‘Jenny of Oldstones’ Was Made
The composer Ramin Djawadi approached the solemn tune from “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” as Elton John would a set of lyrics.
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Biden campaign via Reuters Unlike His Rivals, Biden Sees Trump as an Aberration
In his announcement video, the former vice president bathes the past in a warm glow.
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Yuriko Nakao / Reuters Bursting the Aquarium Bubble
Aquariums might seem like underwater wonderlands, but building a new one comes at a cost.
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The Tragic Consequences of the NHL’s Science Denial
The National Hockey League insisted that Todd Ewen’s death wasn’t related to his hockey career. Science suggests otherwise.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The 2020 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s hesitation act is over, and now the Democratic field is effectively set.
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Glenn Cratty / Getty The Tragic Post-Hockey Life of an NHL ‘Enforcer’
For 11 seasons, Todd Ewen fought in almost every game he played. He didn’t live to his 50th birthday.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Oscars Won’t Take Any Action on Netflix—For Now
Despite reports that new eligibility rules might be announced targeting the streaming service, no such changes will go into effect for 2020.
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A Community Finding a Path Forward
Last month we traveled by car through several cities in Indiana, in a project organized jointly by New America Indianapolis…
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona / ... A Tremor on Mars Confirms a Lasting Suspicion
Scientists have been searching for marsquakes since some of the earliest missions to the Red Planet.
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Our Towns: On the Road, in the Air
In the summer of 2013, nearly six years ago, my wife—Deb Fallows—and I announced in this space the…
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Some Immigrants Choose Between Food Stamps and a Green Card
A Trump proposal is scaring legal immigrants away from essential health programs.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Republic Too Fractured to Be Funny
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner suggests that stand-up joke telling is an art form whose moment has passed.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Authenticity Just Means Faking It Well
Political candidates only need to seem unscripted.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Pete Buttigieg Offers America Double Relief
He can deliver us from a scandal-plagued presidency and transform the relationship between gay and straight America.
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Ng Han Guan / AP The U.S. Can’t Make Allies Take Sides Over China
Washington wants its friends to steer clear of Beijing, but they can’t ignore the allure of its Belt and Road Initiative.
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Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: ISIS’s Newest Recruiting Tool
The organization claimed the Sri Lanka bombings in English and Arabic—and also Tamil and Malayalam. Plus: When (and how) animal diversity exploded on earth, and more
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Mike Hutchings / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The United States of Twitter
Twitter power users: more likely women, more likely tweeting about politics. Plus: President Trump tweets he'll challenge any moves to impeach him in the Supreme Court.
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Amy Harris / AP Kanye West in the Church of Celebrity
To understand the spectacle of the artist’s “Sunday service” at Coachella, look to Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay on the religious origin of idols.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters A Warlord Rises in Libya
And Trump is praising him.
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Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Here Are Pictures of More Cows
Mooving pictures
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HBO Gentleman Jack Sanitizes an Audacious, Difficult Woman
The new HBO drama depicts a bold, groundbreaking 19th-century lesbian. But its palatable tone falsely suggests that few obstacles were in her way.
