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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Gavin Newsom’s Big Idea
The California governor is pulling the plug on a boondoggle and focusing on a plan that could secure the future of his state.
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Shutterstock Suicide Memes Might Actually Be Therapeutic
Online meme-sharing communities have taken a morbid turn, but some mental-health experts believe this could benefit isolated young people.
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NASA / studiovin / Shutterstock / Katie Martin ... I Fell Under the Spell of NASA’s Most Notorious Thief
Before Thad Roberts stole more than $20 million worth of moon rocks and Martian meteorites, he made me want to reach for the stars.
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Filippo Monteforte / AFP / Getty The Hollywood Producer Behind Bryan Singer’s Stalled Movie
With his Barnumesque persona and mixed reputation, Avi Lerner has gained significant success—and notoriety—in the film industry. But who is he, really?
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Jose Cabezas / Reuters What Did Elliott Abrams Have to Do With the El Mozote Massacre?
Inadvertently, Ilhan Omar revealed that Trump may have picked the right man to implement his policy in Venezuela.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Stop Alleging Anti-Semitism Just to Score Political Points
The conversation about Israel has become a toxic partisan firefight, bereft of insight or vision.
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Hamid Khatib / Reuters Sunni Jihad Is Going Local
Future extremists will focus not on exporting violence to the West, but on building influence in their own communities.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Emergency Declaration Is a Test Republicans Didn’t Want to Take
For weeks, GOP senators have warned the president against pursuing extraordinary measures. What now?
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Alex Wong / Getty The 2020 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
William Weld is set to be Donald Trump’s first challenger for the Republican nomination. Who else is running, who’s not, and who can’t decide? A quick guide to the crowded presidential field.
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Temilade Adelaja / Reuters Nigeria’s Militarized Democracy Faces a Test at the Polls
The country has been led by someone linked to the military for 48 of the 58 years since it gained independence.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Senate’s Russia Probe Is Facing a Reckoning
Meanwhile, the Democratic-led House committee is gearing up for a reinvigorated inquiry.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Prime Location
Why Amazon pulled the plug on its New York City HQ2 expansion. Plus what it’s like to go back to school after a shooting, Andrew McCabe on unsettling encounters with the president, and more
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Radio Atlantic: Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks
Jeffrey Toobin helps Alex Wagner make sense of the National Enquirer: its strange history, its devotion to Donald Trump, and why it’s at war with the world’s richest man.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Emergency Contact
As a compromise spending bill passes Congress, the White House says the president will commit to signing it, while taking an “executive action” to get funding for his wall
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When Sex Is Excruciating
An evocative short film illustrates an all-too-common experience: when female pain is not acknowledged.
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Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP The Accusations Against Ryan Adams Are All Too Familiar
How far are the harassment and career-derailment allegations against the rocker from, say, the A Star Is Born story?
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Ozge Elif Kizil / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images From Antarctica
Photos from the past few years of the Antarctic landscape, wildlife, and research facilities, and some of the work taking place there
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Karen Matthews / AP Amazon Got Exactly What It Deserved—And So Did New York
Trillion-dollar companies going shopping for billion-dollar subsidies should be publicly shamed.
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Mark Lennihan / AP Amazon’s Retreat and the New Politics of Tech
What Amazon pulling out of Queens means for the urban growth machine
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Reuters / Caitlin O’Hara Waymo’s Robots Drove More Miles Than Everyone Else Combined
But in newly released numbers from California regulators, the challengers in the self-driving-car race are looking better.
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mpi04 / MediaPunch / AP What It’s Like to Go Back to School After a Shooting
Dave Cullen’s new book about the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florida, vividly portrays the challenges of starting class again while recovering from trauma.
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Brynn Anderson / Associated Press How the Parkland Shooting Changed My Life
A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher reflects on the past year.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What Will Trump Do If He Realizes He’s Lost the Shutdown Fight?
Trump’s push for a border wall has so far followed a predictable, four-act script. But what comes in the fifth act?
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Michael Conroy / AP Howard Schultz Is Already Helping President Trump
The former CEO has staked out a platform few Republican-leaning voters would endorse.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump’s Fantasy Vision of the Police
The president’s core beliefs about law enforcement don’t always align with those of the officers he claims to represent.
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Fox Alita: Battle Angel Is a Living Cartoon of a Film
If you can get past the massive eyes of its robot heroine, Robert Rodriguez’s new action epic is a lot of dizzying, postapocalyptic fun.
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Doug McLean What Some of the World’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Have to Say
An ancient saying he learned from his subjects, the Lamalerans, showed the journalist Doug Bock Clark how to tell the story of a tribe with no recorded history.
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Erin McCluskey My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children
The choice was unusual, but loving: We wanted them to live without the shadow of their mother's mortality hanging over them.
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Stefanie Keenan / Getty Legal Weed Gets a Luxury Makeover
The high-end retailer Barneys New York is inviting a very, very select clientele to celebrate cannabis culture.
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Clayton Chase / Getty The Macronutrient of the Day
Athletes have been using food and drink to boost their performance for centuries. Does it work?
