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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters Southeast Asia's Rohingya Refugee Crisis Reaches a Terrible Peak
The United Nations Refugee Agency now reports that more than 420,000 people have fled the violence in Burma since August 24.
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Mathieu Cugnot / AP Will the Splintering of France's National Front Help or Harm It?
Marine Le Pen’s right-hand man has quit the party, a move that will impact its efforts to rebrand.
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Michael Dalder / Reuters Infants Can Learn the Value of Perseverance by Watching Adults
After observing grown-ups struggling with tasks, 1-year-old babies make more effort themselves.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Turns the Screws on North Korea
What will new U.S. sanctions achieve?
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Netflix Lady Gaga's Illness Is Not a Metaphor
A new film details the reason the star postponed her recent tour—and will test cultural attitudes about gender, pain, and pop.
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Peter Holderness, Caltech Even Jellyfish Sleep
Three Caltech students have shown that these brainless animals have their own version of slumber.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Unfulfilled Promise of Black Capitalism
In her new book, the law professor Mehrsa Baradaran argues that economic self-sufficiency can only go so far without government backing.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Facebook Will More Closely Monitor How It Makes Money
“Seeing those words made me disgusted and disappointed—disgusted by these sentiments and disappointed that our systems allowed this.”
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Netflix Not a Regular Cease-and-Desist, A Cool Cease-and-Desist
A letter from a Netflix lawyer proves that even the coldest of writing forms is not immune to the imperative of having a corporate “voice.”
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Oz Architecture Designing a Better Antarctic Base for Science
The largest community on Antarctica is set for a series of radical upgrades to its decaying infrastructure.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What the Waiting List for Legal Residency Actually Looks Like
Politicians argue immigrants should just “get in line” if they want to live in the United States. But the process itself can take decades.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump Has Filled, Not Drained, the Swamp
The president has made a mockery of a promise at the core of his campaign. It is time for the #MAGA media to tell his supporters the truth.
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Fox Searchlight Battle of the Sexes Is a Breezy Crowd-Pleaser
Emma Stone and Steve Carell star as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, who faced off in a famed 1973 tennis match with surprising resonance for today.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Doctors: No
Physicians rarely agree on anything as strongly as they do that the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill is harmful.
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Alexis Madrigal Facebook's New 'AI Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World
The most important technological advances of the past decade are converging inside the battle for your phone’s camera.
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Ashley Seil Smith Boys Are Not Defective
Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a greater margin than almost anywhere else in the world: a case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.
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Brynn Anderson / AP Providing Abortions in the Deep South
Willie Parker discusses his Christian faith, teen moms, and what’s next for abortion access.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How the Hotel Industry Views Its Future (and Airbnb)
A conversation with the editor of Hotels, a trade publication covering full-service and luxury lodging
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Mike Blake / Reuters Accountability Is for Non-Celebrities
Sean Spicer at the Emmys? It’s the latest illustration that members of the establishment are held to different standards.
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Modern Meadow Leather, Grown in a Lab Without Cows
Modern Meadow’s factory will crank out leather via yeast fermentation.
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Pavel Golovkin / AP How Much Do Tax Cuts Really Matter?
The economic records of former presidents hold a lesson for Donald Trump.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP How Democrats Gave the GOP One More Chance to Repeal Obamacare
Their debt-ceiling deal with President Trump cleared up a busy congressional calendar and may have removed a big hurdle for Republicans facing a September 30 deadline.
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Mark Crisanto / Reuters Does Aung San Suu Kyi Still Deserve a Nobel Prize?
As she presides over the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, the Burmese leader stands to lose her status as secular saint.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Why Business-Friendly Reforms Are Sparking Street Protests in France
The country’s sacrosanct labor code has been fiercely guarded by unions—but the president has his own ideas.
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Gene J. Puskar / AP The Future of Detecting Brain Damage in Football
A new technique could revolutionize how a neurodegenerative disease afflicting contact sports is treated.
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The Theory and Practice of Civic Engagement, by Eric Liu
If you happen to be in Redlands, California, on Thursday evening, September 21, I suggest you go by the headquarters…
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Furious Fallout
Responses to Trump’s UN speech, destruction in Mexico City, Jimmy Kimmel’s response to Obamacare repeal, and more
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Trump Nominee's Illegal Vote Exposes the Voter-Fraud Charade
Jeffrey Gerrish’s decision to cast a ballot in Virginia isn’t so much a gotcha on him as it is on the president’s voter-fraud commission.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Deal or No Deal
President Trump told reporters he has made a decision on whether to abandon the Iran deal, but refused to comment further.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How the Rest of the World Heard Trump's UN Speech
Even Iran, with its abysmal human-rights record, feels comfortable criticizing the U.S.
