What Biden Changed About American Foreign Policy

The debate over the future of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy has become intensely personal. In May, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii posted on social media that although he did…

The Classic Novel That Today’s Young Men Should Read

The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger’s classic of adolescent alienation, turns 75 this summer, though it has the cast-iron reputation of a much older book. Just as Moby-Dick…

The Demons of Maryville

Source: YouTube Summary Photographs by Houston CofieldFrom the outside, the church looked like a plain brick storefront, the mirrored windows peeling, a sign above painted white with blue letters. THE…

The Other Celebration of America

The celebrations of America’s 250th birthday, though they offered many wonderful moments, did not provide the sweeping sense of national unity for which some people had hoped. Some Americans found…

A Huge Escalation in Trump’s Smithsonian Meddling

The buff George Washington statue in the National Museum of American History speaks for itself. Taking in the washboard abs and determined expression of the 1840 work by Horatio Greenough,…

FIFA Is a Cautionary Tale for Trump

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in…

With Graham Platner, Democrats Got Drunk on the Beer Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53bZ_95nDjk Last September, the progressive strategist Morris Katz confessed to The New Yorker that the process by which he decided Graham Platner was qualified to run for U.S. Senate required…

A Sad Kind of Convenience

When I was 16, I did something I’m embarrassed to admit: I waited in a long line to buy a video game called Assassin’s Creed III. Over the past few…

A Very Bad Call

The only thing more riling than a referee’s interference in a sports event is a politician’s. How to kill America’s goodwill in the World Cup: Wave a “red card” under…

The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1FlJiRsDE Nearly six months have passed since federal officers shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis. No one has been arrested, the Trump administration…