Cover story
The Great Serengeti Land Grab
How Gulf princes, wealthy tourists, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai people
Rosalind O’Connor/NBC 
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Arturo Holmes / Getty 
Cinematic / Alamy 
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. 
Illustration by Paul Spella. Source: Daniele Venturelli / WireImage / Getty.
MANICO / Getty Why a Cognitive Scientist Put a Head Cam on His Baby
The perspective of a child could help AI learn language—and tell us more about how humans manage the same feat.
Joseph Rushmore An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America
White Rural Rage has become a best-seller—and kindled an academic controversy.
James Zucco What Orwell Really Feared
In 1946, the author repaired to the remote Isle of Jura and wrote his masterpiece, 1984. What was he looking for?
Illustration by Jan Buchczik The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids
The research shows that you probably have less effect on your kids than you think—with one big exception: Your love will make them happy.
A Study in Senate Cowardice
Republicans like Rob Portman could have ended Donald Trump’s political career. They chose not to.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: John Lamparski / Getty. Total Eclipse
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”
Jon Olav Nesvold / Stringer / Getty 
Miki Lowe The Literature of Exhaustion
“By ‘exhaustion’ I don’t mean anything so tired as the subject of physical, moral, or intellectual decadence, only the used-upness of certain forms or exhaustion of certain possibilities — by no means necessarily a cause for despair.” (From 1967)
Alex Gotfryd / Corbis / Getty
Enjoy unlimited access to all of The Atlantic’s journalism, in the print edition and online.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: John Lamparski / Getty. 
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. how to keep time•Episode 6Can We Keep Time?
Do photos, social posts, and diaries actually help us remember better?
/media/img/mt/2024/04/small_earthquake_1/original.gif)
Scroll →
