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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Return of Bernie Sanders Is Bigger Than Bernie Sanders
To the senator’s superfans watching last night’s debate, the promise of a political revolution is well worth supporting a 78-year-old who just had a heart attack.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Just Don’t Call It Abortion
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have gone further in embracing abortion rights than ever before. But they still hide behind euphemism.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Is Complicit in Erdoğan’s Violence
Now the war in Syria has a victor. And it’s not the U.S.
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John Minchillo / AP Beto’s Marijuana Moment
The Democratic presidential candidate promoted a substitute for opioids that might be more dream than reality.
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Khalil Ashawi / Reuters The Trump Administration Has Only One Move
The U.S. financial system is powerful, but not so powerful that it can swiftly stop a military assault in its tracks.
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Umit Bektas / Reuters What America Didn’t Anticipate About China
For too long, policy makers ignored the possibility that China could transform the U.S., rather than the other way around.
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Franco Origlia / Getty The Charming Candor of Julie Andrews’s New Memoir
In Home Work, the legendary actor comes to terms with an acting career she couldn’t always control.
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‘We’re Doing It for Love of Community’
Do local public-radio stations play an important role? In big cities, from Boston and Washington to San Francisco and L.A.? In small towns, like those across Mississippi or Alaska or Maine? Do they matter in the South as well as the North? In inland states as well as those on the coast?
All the evidence I’m aware of, anecdotal and statistical, suggests that in every one of these places, the answer is a clear and obvious yes. Public radio matters; it matters all the more in remote and rural areas farther from other news outlets; and it is seen as mattering in a way that transcends normal regional or political dividing lines.
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Andy Wong / AP The T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Will Only Hurt Consumers
When market concentration increased after past mergers, prices surged and jobs were lost. There’s no reason to think this time will be different.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Battle for Obama’s Legacy
A scrap over who deserves credit for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the prickliest exchange yet between two top Democratic rivals, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.
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John Minchillo / AP The Democratic Primary Is Now a Sideshow
Twelve candidates crowded onto the stage, but impeachment remains the biggest story in politics.
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Lennart Preiss / Getty Democrats: We’re the Real American Patriots
Tonight, candidates spoke passionately about protecting America’s troops and defending the Constitution. Are voters actually looking for a message of statesmanship?
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The Democrats’ New War on Warren
A volley of attacks from her rivals at tonight’s debate confirmed what polls have started to show: The senator from Massachusetts is the new leader of the primary pack.
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This Couple Rescues Animals From Hurricanes
During natural disasters, who rescues the animals society has forgotten?
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: A Self-Funding Chaos Factor Joins the Debates
Tom Steyer—whose platform centers on climate change and impeachment—has spent his way onto the debate stage. Plus: the search for the next AOC
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Graeme Hunter / HBO One More Thought on Succession’s Ridiculous Banter
“I’m saying this, but I don’t believe it.” Kendall Roy, in the Season 2 finale, summed up what makes the show such brilliant satire.
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Kyodo / Reuters Scenes From the Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan
Images of the damage and immediate recovery work taking place in Japan after its worst storm in decades
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Nicolas Asfour / Pool via Reuters Are China's Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?
China is supposed to be savvy. So why is it throwing a fit about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
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Graham Walzer / Redux How Bong Joon-ho Invented the Weird World of Parasite
“It all came to me, and I wrote like it was a hurricane.”
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump’s Middle East Policy Is a Fraud
He’s flailing. There’s no telling what’s next.
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Michelle Martin / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Every Child Can Become a Lover of Books
Michelle Martin, a professor at the University of Washington, helps librarians create spaces that are welcoming to kids of all backgrounds.
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Ted Thai / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... Why Readers Resented Harold Bloom
I tried to stump him—and only once succeeded.
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Meg Kinnard / AP The Best Campaign Money Can Buy
Tom Steyer, the outsider billionaire candidate, will make his debate-stage debut tonight.
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Luke Sharrett / Getty Images The Mystery of Moon Water
The lunar supply won’t be anything like the stuff on Earth, but NASA wants it anyway.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Betrayed the Kurds. He Couldn’t Help Himself.
Humiliating his own Cabinet secretaries was bad. Putting faithful American allies in harm’s way is far worse.
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Carlos Jasso / Reuters The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end.
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Graham Roumieu If You Could Go Back in Time and Change One Thing, What Would It Be?
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Lucille Clerc Philip Pullman’s Problem With God
In His Dark Materials, now an HBO series, the author takes on organized religion. It’s not a fair fight.
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Joe McKendry The Deportations Last Time
A very short book excerpt
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John Francis Ficara The Conversation
Readers respond to our September 2019 cover story and more.
