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Jonathan Drake / Reuters / The Atlantic What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters The Future of the City Is Childless
America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births.
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Rachel Jessen ‘It Makes Us Want to Support Him More’
Amid a convulsive week in American politics, at one of the darkest rallies Donald Trump has ever held, his base showed up in force to tell the president he’s done nothing wrong.
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Universal Pictures / YouTube I Watched the Cats Trailer and I Have Some Questions
Four legs good, two legs completely bonkers
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Richard Drury / Getty The Rise of Coffee Shaming
Personal-finance gurus really hate coffee.
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Ethan Miller / Getty / Thanh Do / ... I Wasn’t a Fan of BTS. And Then I Was.
The Korean supergroup’s devoted following and chart-topping success have won them comparisons to the Beatles. Why was I surprised to get swept up in their magic?
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Patrick Semansky / AP Where Is Ivanka?
Her silence on the border crisis and on her father’s racist tweets shows she has abandoned even the pretense of being a voice of reason inside the White House.
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Carlos Chavarría The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.
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Paul Spella / Katie Martin An Epidemic of Disbelief
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
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The Unexplained Noise 2 Percent of People Can Hear
A man is tormented by a low-frequency humming sound emanating from his house, which he believes is caused by a nearby gas pipeline.
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Joan Wong; Images Courtesy of NASA Just Leave Michael Collins Alone
The Apollo 11 astronaut is famous for orbiting the moon in solitude. Now he wishes you’d give him some space.
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Ed Jones / AFP / Getty Photos: The 2019 Artistic-Swimming World Championships
Scenes from above and below the water of the artistic swimmers at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in South Korea
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Knew Exactly What He Was Doing
The crowd in Greenville understood the president and his platform far better than he—or Republican senators—proved willing to admit.
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Kolesov Sergei / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What People Actually Say Before They Die
Insights into the little-studied realm of last words
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Howard Yanes / Reuters The Disturbing Sound of a Human Voice
Hearing people talk can terrify even top predators such as mountain lions, with consequences that ripple through entire ecosystems.
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Goran Tomasevic / Reuters The WHO Finally Sounds Its Loudest Alarm Over Ebola in the Congo
The ongoing outbreak is the second worst in history and has proved to be unusually difficult to contain.
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Melissa Ross / Getty A Potential Hidden Factor in Why People Have So Much Trouble Losing Weight
A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
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Mendelsund & Munday What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
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Reuters / Pool Kevin Spacey Is Not Vindicated
The criminal case alleging the actor assaulted a busboy in 2016 has been dropped. But #MeToo is more than a reckoning taking place in court.
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NASA The Fraught Effort to Return to the Moon
NASA wants to put people back on the lunar surface in 2024, but it doesn’t have the budget.
