The Genre That’s a Shortcut to Wisdom

Source: YouTube Summary This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.“How are you on theory?” my…

Trump Is Asking the Private Sector to Save Him

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…

Running From a Fire Should Not Be This Routine

In the western United States, particularly in fire-prone areas, people have become well versed at preparing to flee. They’re experts at using the tools and technology for monitoring a wildfire’s…

How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage

The United States is running out of missiles. After five months of war with Iran, stockpiles of long-range weapons are so low, current and former U.S. defense officials told us,…

The New Parent Trap

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The first time I went to sleepaway camp, I was 10 years old.…

One Surprising Thing About The Odyssey—Its Rating

Christopher Nolan has directed two movies in which a soldier washes up on a foreign shore and, battle-weary and sodden, fights to return home. The first, 2017’s Dunkirk, dramatized the…

Icarus in the Faculty Lounge

Source: YouTube Summary Even before the push alert about his resignation from the University of Cambridge this week, Jason Arday might well have been the world’s most famous living sociologist.…

What El-Sayed Does Next Matters

This story was updated on August 5, 2026, at 7:29 p.m. ET he Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed made the customary call for unity after a hard-fought primary against a…

The Once-Shameless President Is Deeply Embarrassed

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. One of President Trump’s superpowers is his shamelessness. Most of the time, he demonstrates…

Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World

Last week, the internet raged as social-media posts and news articles accused AI companies of “destroying the world’s books”—including “millions of rare” ones—by chopping off their spines to scan them…