Are the Patriot Games Great? No. Are They Fun to Watch?
How to describe President Trump’s Freedom 250 Patriot Games? The contest, which took place earlier this week, brought students ages 14 to 17 together from across America to answer the…
Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t…
What I Saw In Sinaloa
Source: theatlantic.com Summary Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Last Tuesday night, I was eating sushi with a Mexican police chief in downtown Culiacán, a city that had momentarily flickered…
Hunger Games, MAGA Style
The semiquincentennial events that President Trump has personally directed have been a celebration of his very particular version of America. The bloody UFC fight on the White House lawn was…
Trump’s New Plan to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center
Donald Trump just won’t let go of his plans for the Kennedy Center. Less than three months after a federal judge ordered the president’s name stripped from the national arts…
The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Historians are generally better off interpreting the past than predicting…
Tiny Desk Radio: Oklou, Dan Deacon, Fred again..
Source: YouTube Summary <img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/12/28/fredagain_tinydesk_selects-5_wide-eab5be72ec169094e2492a07d30076719d407759.jpg' alt='Watch the Fred again.. Tiny Desk concert here.'/>How do electronic music artists translate their bleeps and bloops at the Tiny Desk? These three musicians were…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth
At this stage in the AI race, if one of your chatbots hasn’t escaped the lab and run amok, people start to wonder whether you’re even serious. Last month, OpenAI…
The Flawed Logic of Trump’s Airplane Escape
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Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 Finalists
© Benjamín Yávar / Ocean Photographer of the YearFinalist, Ocean Adventure. A free diver is surrounded by a school of sardines, which part to form a halo as they move…















