How did a history book set off a fierce battle over Texas’s founding legend? The Texan writer Bryan Burrough set out to debunk his state’s myth of the Alamo, only to find himself clashing with other Texans still trying to protect it.
Why have some student athletes gone hungry while their schools have earned millions? The Atlantic staff writer and former college athlete Adam Harris explains.
After 50 years of hate-crime legislation in the U.S., hate-motivated violence is once again on the rise. So where did we go wrong?
Last summer, unsolicited home deliveries sent Americans into a panic. The writer Chris Heath has discovered an explanation that many, including the USDA, don’t believe.
Alcohol has been humanity’s social lubricant since 10,000 B.C., but its use as a coping mechanism is distinctly American.
After the pandemic, how do we learn to get close to one another again? We ask the renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer.
The Columbia professor Carl Hart believes that villainizing drug use interferes with our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Our pandemic podcast is ending, though the pandemic hasn’t ended around the world.
Things are starting to look up, at least in the U.S., but we’re looking ahead at potential future worries.
Lots of your questions about the future after COVID-19 get answered, and one listener gives us a little history lesson.
On an intimate journey for her own sexual pleasure, Katharine Smyth found herself navigating a female-orgasm industrial complex long defined by myths about women’s bodies.
The Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong talks with James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins about the ways, large and small, in which we’ve all suffered.
Lecrae, a major Christian rapper, found his religion in a culture where evangelicalism and politics were tightly tied. When he realized he couldn’t live with that anymore, the consequences were devastating.
What difference could it make worldwide if the U.S. waived patents for vaccines?
White evangelicals have succeeded in becoming the most powerful voting bloc in America, one church mailing list at a time. But is the cost of victory too high?
A long-COVID patient and an immunologist help us understand the mysterious condition.
What a guilty-pleasure reality show teaches us about immigration and democracy in America
“One country’s crisis is every country’s crisis.”
A widely criticized legal principle disproportionately puts youth of color and women behind bars. But is it the only way to hold police accountable when they kill?
The rules need to change after vaccination. But carefully.